Closing address given by the Government of Catalonia’s Minister for Business and Knowledge, Ramon Tremosa
Good afternoon, President Planell, the UOC Governing Council, the students watching us streaming live, and members of the administrative and service staff. Thank you for inviting me to your University’s inaugural event and the start of a new year that also marks the UOC’s 25th anniversary. Immersed in an unprecedented health crisis compounded by an anomalous political context, the times in which we are living are unusual indeed. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the President of the Government of Catalonia has been barred from office and one of the many collateral effects – with specific impact on the universities – is the suspension of the Law on Science’s passage through Parliament, a law that would have had many beneficial effects for research in Catalonia.
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