The Ministry of Science and Technology on Friday announced the creation of the Inter-Institutional Center for Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Strategic Issues (Citeas), which It will operate in the city of Ushuaia and will require an investment of 500 million pesos.informed Conicet
The Minister of Science, Daniel Filmus, stressed that Antarctica “has to do with the fate of humanity and the resources for the future. We need a much larger existence.”
In this regard, he announced that, in addition to the Center “We have foreseen in the budget the construction of the logistics pole; Both will be Two pivots of this government will forever remain in Ushuaia.”
“We will finance, through the federal program Equipar Ciencia, a large part of the equipment of this center,” the minister noted.
Filmus also noted the launch of an exclusive invitation to Malvinas, Antarctica and the South Atlantic, where Seven winning projects will be funded.
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He stressed that “in 2014, we started a group of networks and support and more than 70 investigations, which did not continue later, and we with this government are fully recovering as we are recovering the strength of the claim to the Malvinas Islands.”
for this part, Conicet Director, Anna Franchihighlighted that Antarctica “is the most important reservoir of water in the world. Given the needs emerging in the world, it is a place of increasing interest.”
As Franchi specified that “We have to know that places like Antarctica are fundamental places and that science and technology make dominion. That is why we are meeting with various institutions, provincial and municipal governments to advance this important project.
This announcement was made in the city of Ushuaia and involved regional and academic authorities.
Some of the institutions that will implement this project are: Austral Center for Scientific Research (CADIC-CONICET); Argentine Antarctic Institute (IAA-MRECIC); and UNTDF; National Technological University – Regional College of Tierra del Fuego (UTN-FRTDF) and Institute for Research and Development of Fisheries (INIDEP)
