KEY ASPECTS OF THE NEW INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK

• Madrid Programme for Large Research Facilities:
  • Support of researchers and companies so they may carry research that will benefit everyone.
  • In collaboration with Spain’s national administration
  • A national, not regional, focus.
  • New large research facilities with open access to the scientific community
  • Amount
    • Current and future/Global and belonging to each centre
• Human Capital Programme: Amarout
  • The name of the Capital City of Thomas More’s island of Utopia and the name of the programme for attracting the best human R&D capital to our region
  • Make the dream of Spain’s King Phillip the II become true: making Madrid the capital of reason and humanism
    • Central location of the capital city was critical in Renaissance Thought and is also critical today: Madrid, centre of the Iberian peninsula and centre of science.
    • Madrid, CapitalCity of Spain and also CapitalCity of the Madrid Region: service centre for everyone.
    • At everyone’s service, benefiting everyone
  • An organisation designed to serve people:
• So that scientists of international renown may be able to carry out their research.
• Planting the seed today, harvesting results tomorrow.
• Description of the capital of the Island of Utopia, Amarout, and its dwellers
  • “they reckon knowledge…one of the pleasantest and most profitable parts of philosophy, by which, as they search into the secrets of nature, so they not only find this study highly agreeable, but think that such inquiries are very acceptable to the Author of nature; and imagine, that as He, like the inventors of curious engines amongst mankind, has exposed this great machine of the universe to the view of the only creatures capable of contemplating it, so an exact and curious observer, who admires His workmanship, is much more acceptable to Him than one of the herd, who, like a beast incapable of reason, looks on this glorious scene with the eyes of a dull and unconcerned spectator.”
  • ” If any man was to go among them that had some extraordinary talent, or that by much travelling had observed the customs of many nations (which made us to be so well received), he would receive a hearty welcome, for they are very desirous to know the state of the whole world.”
  • “[…] in Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full no private man can want anything.” Thomas More (Utopia)