Minister Jiménez presented the National Plan for Science, Technology and Culture of Innovation 2025-2055

Published at: 04/11/2025 05:17 PM

The Minister of Popular Power for Science and Technology (MINCYT), Gabriela Jiménez, this Tuesday, November 4th, officially presented the National Plan for Science, Technology and Culture of Innovation 2025-2055, a strategic instrument that will serve as a basis for the development of the Venezuelan Power.

The activity was held in the J.J. Castillo Auditorium of the MINCYT and was attended by representatives of the National System of Science, Technology and Innovation, the ministerial body reported on its website.

Jiménez indicated that the plan, approved by the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, aims to promote science and innovation to promote social transformation.

“It has been a structured work plan for the definition of our scientific agenda and the promotion of a national scientific culture, which is perhaps the most important strategy for our country to understand the science of social processes, science as an engine of transformation, science as in everyday life (...) science in everything, and of course a science with a humanistic, ethical, moral perspective, with purpose, from the territorial perspective, but of course from the configuration of the country's capacities,” he said.

The also Sectorial Vice President of Science, Technology, Ecosocialism and Health highlighted the achievements achieved in open science, which has led the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to recognize the Biotechnology Center for the Production of Agamic Seeds (CEBISA) as a type II center.

He said that the plan will be accompanied by the MINCYT Bioethics Committee to evaluate the behavior of research project proposals.

“Our plan is not a straitjacket, our plan also responds to territorial dynamics, to regional capacities, to the organization of our popular power. This plan has to be for the freedoms of the national productive apparatus,” he said.

He stressed the importance of an alliance with all sectors of public administration, as well as universities, to raise the level of knowledge and promote new research ecosystems, which respond to new challenges.

“I think we have the best plan in terms of integrating the politics of the Venezuelan State. The plan is yours, the plan has 30 million faces,” he said.

Among the team responsible for generating this plan are Professor Marlene Yadira Córdova and Francisco Durán, president of the Institute of Engineering Foundation for Research and Technological Development, an entity attached to MINCYT.

In his speech, Córdova indicated that this process began a year and a half ago, with a methodology of workshops and weekly meetings with the entire research team.

“The methodological structure was built precisely on the basis of assuming it as a research process, a process under construction and permanent renovation that allowed us to achieve two major strategic objectives,” he said.

He also pointed out that we must go beyond management work and form an alliance, very similar to the Scientific-Peasant Alliance, with other strategic sectors of the country.

For his part, Durán explained that the plan will be debated and adapted regionally. “Following this discussion, working groups will be formed in each region, understanding that this plan is framed within what is embedded in the Plan for Social Economic Development of the Nation, Plan for the Homeland of the Seven Transformations, and immersed in what is the economic plan in its 13 productive engines,” he said.