As part of the week of awareness of the university conflict, the UNR community gathered in Plaza San Martín to highlight the critical situation facing public universities.

Students, teachers, non-teaching staff, union representatives and authorities of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario They held an event in defense of public higher education. There, Rector Franco Bartolacci announced that on Wednesday, May 28th at 11:XNUMX a.m., a bill will be presented to the National Congress to provide a structural response to the country's university and scientific funding problem.

The event was also attended by FUA President Joaquín Carvalho; FUR President Agustina Rosso Sasia; and union representatives from COAD and APUR. There was an open radio broadcast coordinated by Social Communication students, a stand with services from the University's Health Department, and a public lecture led by Dr. Ricardo Terrile.

The Rector stated that the current situation is more complex than last year's in three ways. First, operating expenses, which from November 2023 to date, have suffered a gap of more than 100% between the increases granted and inflation. The second refers to the underfunding of the scientific system, which "is terminal if not reversed in time because it takes decades to recover what has been built in science."

The third is the salary situation, which he described as "dramatic, distressing, and unsustainable," and considered it unacceptable that someone should receive a salary below the poverty line, especially when they are responsible for training the country's professionals in all disciplines. He warned that this is leading to a deterioration of the institution as a whole, affecting the normal development of its activities.

“We have these problems and the national authorities don’t listen, in a mixture of ignorance, prejudice, and bad faith. We constantly have to negotiate solutions with people.”