▲ 성명서를 발표하는 특위준비위원들  © 대전시당

(가칭) 더불어민주당 대전광역시당 국가과학기술연구개발 예산 원상회복 특별위원회가 8일 정부의 연구개발예산 삭감을 규탄하고 관련 예산 회복을 촉구했다.

특위를 준비하고 있는 최종락 전 한수원중앙연구원 선임연구원, 정기현 전 대전시의원,  윤현수 주)에이지오 대표  등 준비위원들은 8일 대전시당에서 열린 기자회견에서 과학기술개발에 대한 철학이 없는 과기정통부 장관사퇴와 윤석열 대통령의 사과를 촉구했다.

이들은 “윤석열 정부의 연구개발예산 삭감은 우리나라의 경쟁력을 약화시키는 결정적인 원인으로 작용할 것”이라며 “이공계 대학과 대학원생 등 청년 과학기술인들에게 절망을 안길뿐만 아니라, 우리의 미래 세대인 초중고 학생들에게는 이공계 기피만 초래한다”고 우려했다. 

또 “대덕연구개발특구와 중소벤처기업 및 이공계 대학이 밀집한 대전시는  연구개발예산 삭감이 가져오는 직간접적인 영향으로 지역경제에 큰 타격이 불가피하다.”며 “앞으로 가칭) '국가과학기술 연구개발예산 원상회복 특별위원회‘를 발족을 통해 대전지역 경제와  우리나라의 미래를 노력하겠다”고 밝혔다. 

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Democratic Party of Daejeon City calls for restoration of 5.2 trillion won in cut R&D budget

(tentative name) On the 8th, the Special Committee for the Restoration of the National Science and Technology Research and Development Budget of the Democratic Party of Korea and the Daejeon Metropolitan City Party condemned the government's cut in the research and development budget and called for the restoration of the related budget.

At a press conference held at the Daejeon City Hall on the 8th, members of the preparation committee, including Choi Jong-rak, former senior researcher at the Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Research Institute, former Daejeon City Council member Jeong Ki-hyun, and A-GEO CEO Yoon Hyeon-soo, who are preparing for the special committee, called for the resignation of the Minister of Science and ICT, who has no philosophy on science and technology development. They called for an apology from President Yoon Seok-yeol.

They said, “The Yoon Seok-yeol government’s cut in the research and development budget will serve as a decisive factor in weakening our country’s competitiveness.” They added, “It will not only bring despair to young scientists and engineers such as college and graduate students in science and engineering, but also cause elementary, middle, and high school students, who are our future generation, to avoid science and engineering fields.” “It will only cause harm,” he said.

In addition, “Daejeon City, where Daedeok R&D Special Zone and small and medium-sized venture companies and science and engineering universities are concentrated, will inevitably suffer a major blow to the local economy due to the direct and indirect effects of cuts in the research and development budget,” he said. “Tentative name from now on is ‘National Science and Technology Research and Development Budget. “We will work to improve the economy of the Daejeon region and the future of our country through the launch of the ‘Restoration Special Committee.’”