A Coruña, December 22, 2016.- The Reitor of the University of Coruña, Julio Abalde, and the Vice Reitor of Economy, Infrastructure and Sustainability, Domingo Calvo, presented this morning to the Governing Council the draft plan for the next year that will have to be approved by the Social Council for it to come into force.
The 2017 UDC allocation is 119.45 million euros, which represents an increase of 2.69% compared to the previous year due to the fact that credit is allocated to undertake the recovery of the supplement attributable to extra pay.
Not that it refers to expenses, or current planned expenditure of Chapter I increases by 2.16%. The total amounts to 90.29 million euros or represents 75.59% of the total expenditure. There is a reduction in current expenses, 5.09% less, motivated by the application of spending rationalization measures at the beginning of the implementation of energy efficiency programs. The total amounts to 14.49 million euros or a weight of 12.13%. Not apart from real investments, there is an increase in this chapter, 20.78%, derived from the need to finance measures or investments leading to energy efficiency or equipment for works and infrastructure. Current transfers amount to 2.76 million euros, which represents 2.31%, an increase of 12.35%.
It is important to highlight the greater impetus and support for internationalization for which more resources are being allocated and more programs developed. It is also very important to note that the students are supported both in direct aid (stock exchanges, bus vouchers, residences, mobility) and student support programs (cultural and sports activities, services offered, and guidance and counseling programs) which amount in total to 1.9 million euros. The contingency fund (0.25 million) remains unchanged.
To address the level of expenses, it is intended to promote self-financing avenues, mainly through indirect costs from both competitive research projects and research contracts, as well as through sponsorship, subsidies and patronage. Within this section, it is also estimated to promote the raising of funds in the concepts of alugueres and compensation for the use of premises, billing for the provision of research services, royalties, management of spaces for companies. In this section appear the taxes, public prices that are conditioned by the evolution of enrollment. If a trend is observed towards a lower number of students enrolled in the entire Galician University System, the University of Coruña will promote the creation of new training programs for different agents, such as the Senior University or teletraining.
Furthermore, the University of Coruña is committed to the implementation of new bachelor’s and master’s degrees based on specialization campuses and that attempt to respond to new social needs. Simultaneously, it should serve to promote strategic sectors for the autonomous community. In this sense, take as an example the Ferrol Industrial Campus, which managed to increase its new student enrollment by 4.57% this 2016-17 academic year. The implementation of these programs could lead to an increase of 6.57% in income and an estimated income of 16.35 million.
Current transfers are increased fundamentally by the recovery of the specific supplement or equivalent applied to extra pay. Assume an amount of 86.67 million and a participation of 72.56%, or an increase of 1.66% compared to 2016.
Capital transfers – which reach an amount of 15.62 million and represent 13.08% – increase by 4.91%, with a large part going to the financing of energy saving measures and improvements to scientific infrastructures.
The strategic lines continue in their development such as quality and teaching innovation, the enhancement of research and transfer, a greater commitment to internationalization, a more efficient use of resources (infrastructure management and economic management and finally the enhancement of the value of the UDC brand through the development of social responsibility programs and the attraction of capital investments through sponsorship and patronage. Among them The main actions carried out in the UDC highlight the Shared Space program with the sponsorship of Universia and Banco Santander aimed at improving accessibility to the University and promoting people with some type of disability. The recruitment of talent is also being promoted through innovative programs such as the sponsorship action of the InTalent program after or in accordance with what is supported by the University of Coruña and more by the company. INDITEX. This program seeks to achieve greater attraction of talent for to the University of Coruña.
The Governing Council this morning also approved a positioning of recognition of the new criteria stipulated by ANECA so that professors can promote Full Professors and Professors, understanding that they represent exaggerated thresholds for the reality of Spanish universities and demotivating for new professors that make it difficult for public universities to retain and attract talent. The speaker explained that the University of Coruña will ask, through CRUE, for the annulment of these criteria and for other universities to be negotiated.
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