The National Government claimed universities to regularize the situation around more than 30 billion pesos that were not duly rendered. And if they do not do so in the defined time they must return the money, with interest in case it corresponds.
“They yield or return it.” With this warning as a title and in capital letters, the Secretary of Innovation, Science and Technology of Nation, Darío Genua, urged a total of 672 institutions with pending yields for more than 30 billion pesos to be updated with the required documentation before June 30. And anticipates that there will be no extension. “All these irregularities ended up harming researchers and their institutions,” he completed the post that rose to his account in X.
En los considerando de la Resolución 77/2025 de la Jefatura de Gabinete, con 28 de abril, se refiere que se le requirió a la secretaría que encabeza Genua “la evaluación de los programas y proyectos creados en la órbita del ex MINISTERIO DE CIENCIA, TECNOLOGÍA E INNOVACIÓN, con el fin de contribuir con la política de racionalización del gasto público, impulsada por el Gobierno Nacional, iniciándose así un proceso de revisión, optimización, reestructuración y Redesign of the same “, and that the result of said survey revealed that 672 institutions were” beneficiaries of subsidies, with a debt required by pending accountability of approximately $ 33,000,000. “
“Before intimations made to the different beneficiaries, in many cases, they stated that they require a more extensive term” for the surrender or reimbursement of the sums, says the text, since “they are in financial placements, which entails an extra time to recover them.”
The measure explicitly that “in order to unify their treatment and draw a line of action that allows to order public accounts, it is considered convenient to extend and/or extend the deadlines for the surrender of funds and/or return of the not executed sums of all programs, projects, initiatives and agreements signed by the former Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation until June 30, 2025” extensions or extensions “, so whoever had not proceeded as required” will begin the pertinent recovery actions, in order to achieve the objective of cleaning up public accounts. “
Article 4 of said resolution instructs the Undersecretariat of Science and Technology “so that, jointly with the area of surrearies of this Secretariat, overcome the term established in article first, make the control of compliance with this measure and refer to the Permanent Legal Service of this Secretariat, the cases where its compliance is not verified, so that the administrative and/or judicial actions necessary for your recovery are initiated.”
According to the Clarín newspaper, the National University of La Plata (UNLP) is among the institutions that never returned or paid, with more than 580 million pesos. First is the National Technological University (UTN), with $ 902,715,606, followed by the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) with $ 896,272,705, third the National University Arturo Jauretche with $ 683,308,996, fourthly the UNLP with $ 581,062,756, fifth the National University of General San Martín (Unsam) $ 571,781,412, SIXTA The Scientific Research Commission of the Province of Buenos Aires (CIC) with $ 436,004,115 and seventh the National University of Hurlingham, with $ 435,980,499.
