In the last conversations with some professors of the UPV/EHU, I was told the negative atmosphere that exists in the CAV and in the Spanish state. It has already been suggested that teachers will have to spend more hours teaching and that part of the funding for research will be sought by themselves. This will have two consequences: on the one hand, many teachers, mostly young, will be left behind in the UPV/EHU and, on the other, there is a risk that research will be left to large economic groups.

In the French State, teaching made a similar path with Sarkozy, and it is striking that Hollande’s first words, after assuming the presidency, are about it, “we have to establish a new hierarchy of values and at the head of it, science, intelligence, research and the will to learn and teach.”

It seems that in this time of crisis there are sensible words somewhere. That is the case!