The Governing Council of the University of Murcia has approved this Friday the bases of the call for generational renewal contracts for the promotion of research, which will appear in the coming weeks in the Bulletin Board of the University of Murcia (TOUM).
The objective of these contracts is to attract talent to the University of Murcia and will only be convened for those areas in which the generational change is most urgent, because it has been detected that in the coming years teachers with an important research profile will retire.
The call will include 5 postdoctoral hiring positions with the category of Contracted Doctor Type A and those who get one of the places will also receive up to 40,000 euros to develop their research project.
Each beneficiary will have a tutor from the area with research activity.
The intention of the rectory team is to promote in the coming years this type of calls with the idea of ​​alleviating the loss of talent expected by retirement for the next five years.
On the other hand, the Governing Council has approved the creation of the Chair of Water Ecoficiency, sponsored by Hidrogea.
The reform of the Student Evaluation Regulation (REVA), processed through the Vice Rectorate for Students and Services to the University Community, has also been authorized.
Similarly, the internal regime regulation of the Integral Center for Clinical Simulation of the University of Murcia (CISCUM) has been given the green light.
The main novelty is that the entire clinical simulation of the Faculty of Nursing and Medicine will be grouped in the same center.
In the coming months, more measures will be addressed to convert the CISCUM into a reference center.
About five million to improve its scientific-technical equipment
On the other hand, the Vice-Rectorate for Research and Transfer has informed the Government Council that the 'State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation' has awarded the University of Murcia a subsidy of 2,880,343 euros, to which It adds the own contribution of the UMU, leaving a total amount of 4,356,519 euros for the acquisition of technical scientific equipment.
Thus, aid has been granted to 11 of the 14 projects requested.
Of those 11 projects, 9 were presented by the Scientific-Technical Research Area (ACTI), under the Vice-Rectorate for Research and Transfer, 1 by the Vice-Rectorate for Infrastructure Planning and 1 by the Vice-Rector for Digital Transformation.
The IMIB, which is part of the University of Murcia, has also obtained grants for 2 of the 5 projects requested, which amounts to a total amount of 400,978 euros, leaving a total amount of 606,479 euros after the contribution of the IMIB.
Thus, UMU and IMIB have obtained a total subsidy of 3,281,321 euros, leaving a total of 4,962,998 euros with the contribution of the UMU and the IMIB.
Source: Universidad de Murcia