Human and technological capital

  • Educa3 Plan

    Since free schooling is guaranteed for children between 3 and 6, the new challenge of the Government is increasing seat availability in primary schools, where demand keeps exceeding supply. The Educa3 plan is aimed at creating 300,000 new seats for children under 3 between 2008 and 2012. This plan has been endowed 1,087 million Euros, [...]

    Ejes: Economic modernisation, Human and technological capital

  • Way Bill for Professional Training

    The “way bill” is based upon four essential axes: excellence in education, the recognition of experience, the expansion and flexibilization of the study offer and the European orientation of the new Professional Training system. This is aimed at making Professional Training match students’ expectations, workers’ demands and the needs of the economic system in order [...]

    Ejes: Economic modernisation, Human and technological capital

  • New Law on Science and Technology

    This new Law will update the previous Law on Science, which was the one the different Research and
    Development
    policies implemented over the last 22 years have been based upon. The new regulations will adapt to the new needs of the Research,
    Development
    and Innovation system: increasing the cooperation in the corporate sector; improving the existing result [...]

    Ejes: Economic modernisation, Human and technological capital

  • University strategy “Estrategia Universidad 2015”

    The so-called Estrategia Universidad 2015 is an initiative aimed at modernising Spanish universities through teaching and scientific excellence, through the internationalisation of the university system and through its participation in innovation improvement. Its different action lines are aimed at promoting the specialisation and diversification of Spanish universities, at strengthening the social role of universities, at [...]

    Ejes: Economic modernisation, Human and technological capital

  • Reform of public research institutions

    Spanish Public Research Organisms will be restructured so as to provide them with a homogeneous legal frame and to improve coordination among their common actuation areas, encouraging the synergies among them. This reorganisation will be reinforced by a series of measures intended to improve the situation of the staff; measures such as career
    Development
    for [...]

    Ejes: Economic modernisation, Human and technological capital

  • Expansion of the deductions on Investigation and Development to research projects carried out outside the EU

    The deductions on Investigation, Development and Innovation in the Corporate Tax are expanded and, thus, from 2008 onwards, they will also be applicable to companies carrying out more than 25% of their research activities in a non-EU country or in a country outside the European Economic Area.
    Beneficiaries
    Innovating companies. This measure will enable Spanish companies to [...]

    Ejes: Economic modernisation, Human and technological capital

  • Red Iris Nova

    An advanced communications network based upon high capacity optic fibre technology will be created for the Spanish teachers, students and researchers. This network will substitute the existing Red Iris, providing it with greater speed and capillarity. The budget for this action amounts to 130 million Euros between 2009 and 2011, and 55 million Euros will [...]

    Ejes: Economic modernisation, Human and technological capital