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| The Rector has communicated the importance of obtaining the European quality seal 'Human Resources Excellence in Research' (HRS4R), which guarantees the transparency of the UMU in the recruitment processes of research staff | The extracurricular external practices will resume from June 8 in centers that allow the prevention measures and health protocols to be maintained. The University of Murcia has held this Friday, June 5, a Governing Council in which, among other aspects, the cost that the needs derived from the pandemic of COVID-19 have generated in the institution has been discussed.
The estimate is that the measures adopted to be able to continue with the development of teaching activity will cost around 16 million euros. Specifically, the manager of the UMU, José Antonio Cascales, has reported that the pandemic will generate a loss of income that can reach 3,800,000 euros; a reduction of income to which must be added an investment of around 1,500,000 euros in equipment and infrastructure in information and communication technologies (ICT) to deal with non-contact teaching, both in the current academic year and in the start of the next course.
In protection equipment and in the remodeling of the facilities to guarantee the protection of students and workers to the new reality, the UMU will invest an amount of money estimated at 5,400,000 euros.The University has informed the Autonomous Community of this amount and of the forecast of extraordinary expenses that may continue to occur as a result of the closure of the institution's facilities in March and the adaptations to the new safety distances in the reopening.
of centers, units and services.
In this sense, it is hoped that the Community can help to cope with the payments caused by the pandemic. In his report, the rector, José Luján, has informed the Governing Council that the Autonomous Community has already approved the nominal grant to public universities in the Region of Murcia, a process that had been delayed over time due to the delay in the approval of regional budgets.
He also reported that ANECA has positively valued the set of measures taken by the UMU to ensure non-face-to-face teaching due to the confinement of the population as a result of the Alarm State.
These measures have been specified in the contingency plans of centers and services that affect teaching, in its first version.
Likewise, the rector congratulated all the participants in the petition in particular, and the university in general, for obtaining the European quality seal 'Human Resources Excellence in Research '(HRS4R) that endorses the transparency of the University of Murcia in the recruitment of research staff. The vice-rector for Social Responsibility and Transparency, Longinos Marín, has reported, for his part, the result of the first phase of the project #NoEstudianteAtrás that ended on May 31 and which aims to financially help students economically disadvantaged by the pandemic.
From now on, the process of requests for help begins.
The vice-rector wanted to thank the UMU staff for the donations he has made at a private level, as well as the services and spending units of the University and the companies in the Region that have contributed part of their budgets to constitute this extraordinary solidarity fund.
. The Vice Chancellor for Studies, Sonia Madrid, has dedicated a large part of her speech to the Governing Council to congratulate all the people participating in the organization and development of the entrance exams for people over 25 and 45 years of age held this week, emphasizing in which they have been carried out with the utmost respect for the social distancing and hygiene measures indicated by the health authorities.
This test has represented a trial for the EBAU, which will be held on July 6, 7 and 8 at 24 venues and subsedes in the Region of Murcia.
The Governing Council has approved the regulation that establishes the criteria for the allocation of places, reservation quotas, subjects and weighting parameters of the procedure for admission to official university degrees or for the 2020/2021 academic year.Finally, the vice-chancellor has informed of the opening of the call for projects and actions of educational innovation of this course. The Vice-Rector for Research and Internationalization has carefully reported the granting of the HRS4R international quality seal, thanking all the services and units involved in the development of this proposal coordinated by OPERUM (Office of European and International Projects of the University of Murcia).
This seal is an endorsement for the UMU that recognizes its commitment to generate and support a stimulating and favorable environment for research work.
He has also reported the signing of an agreement with the Salzillo Museum called "Giving voice to the forgotten of history.
Cultural heritage as a source of historical information" in the framework of the call for aid by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology. In matters of teaching staff, the vice-chancellor, José Antonio López Pina, has informed of the positions of professor assistant doctor who are going to be hired to replace the retirement of the teaching staff.
It has also reported on the call for the transformation of full-time teaching staff positions for the 2020/2021 academic year.
He has also reported on the resolution of the call for the six-year transfer that 167 professors from the University of Murcia have obtained and its effects on the teaching evaluation document of the teaching staff and on the plans of teaching organization of the departments. Curricular practices The vice-rector for Employment, Entrepreneurship and Society, Alicia Rubio, has reported the receipt of a letter from the Ministry of Universities informing about the possibility of resuming external internships.
The University of Murcia and the UPCT have agreed that, in principle, extracurricular practices can be resumed from June 8 in practice centers that guarantee social distance and the rest of the measures decreed by the health authorities.
Two general action protocols have been signed with the Fundación Universidad de las Américas and with the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México.
A General Council of Colleges of Physiotherapists has also been signed to collaborate in the training of physiotherapy students.
Finally,The catalog of public prices of the Universidad Internacional del Mar has been approved, which continues to carry out its activity this course in a blended format. On the other hand, the Governing Council has approved several multi-year expenses, among which are the contracts for the 'Juan de la Cierva' call, the scholarships for foreign language readers and various projects of the Technical Unit for the maintenance of groups of pressure, pumps, softeners and for the maintenance of natural gas and compressed gas installations.
An adaptation of the procedure for the processing of minor works, services and supplies contracts has also been approved. Finally, the members of the Government Council that were in the Rector's building have taken part in the minute of silence that has taken place at the headquarters of the Government Delegation in the Region of Murcia, on the occasion of the end of the mourning period National in memory of the victims of the pandemic.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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