Image: EPAbout thirty representatives of R&D&I Evaluation Agencies from all over Spain met today in Santander in a session convened by the Ministry of Science and Innovation and organized by the Sodercan Group in the Science and Technology Park of Cantabria (PCTCAN).
The director of the National Agency for Evaluation and Foresight, Victoria Ley, explained that this type of meetings, promoted by the Ministry, aim to improve coordination between agencies to homogenize procedures and criteria, as well as evaluate knowledge transfer activities to companies. The attendees had the opportunity to know the Cantabrian commitment to renewable energies and especially marine energies, which they have valued very positively.
Salvador Blanco, CEO of the Sodercan Group, pointed out during the official opening, after welcoming the attendees, that the scientific evaluation of the initiatives and projects "under professional criteria of transparency, credibility and independence, and above all of quality, assures us the positive impact on society that all scientific policy should seek, without forgetting the maximum profitability and profit of them".
On behalf of the Minister of Education, Rosa Eva Díaz Tezanos, the General Director of Vocational Training, María Jesús Rimat, has assured that the search for excellence "is key to the prosperity of a country, and of course for a region".
He also highlighted the essential value of the National Agency for Evaluation and Foresight, which has achieved, in his opinion, that the scientific community adopts evaluation with European criteria as a common practice.
