He Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Universities, Juan Cruz CigudosaTHE Minister of University, Innovation and Digital Transformation of the Government of Navarra, Patricia Fanloand the rUPNA ector, Ramón Gonzalosigned this Monday an agreement for the implementation of the María Goyri program in the academic center, which will allow the creation of 76 doctoral assistant professor positions at UPNA.
This program involves the investment by the Spanish government of more than 900 million euros and involves the mobilization of 2,236 additional places by the communities autonomous. In total, it involves “injecting more than 5,600 teaching positions into the Spanish university education system”.
In Navarre, the program provides for the creation of 46 doctoral assistant professor positions funded by the ministry with an annual investment of 1.8 million euros for the next 6 years. Furthermore, the Regional Community will finance 30 additional places, thus allowing At the end of the program, your group will have 76 assistant doctor positions available. which will join the Public University of Navarra “with the commitment defined and included in the agreement to stabilize these places”.
The event was chaired by the President of Navarre, María Chivitewho in his speech emphasized that the María Goyri program will contribute to “rejuvenating the staff” and “necessarily reducing temporary employment in the sector”.
“And he does it in response to the needs arising from the recently approved organic law of the university system, LOSU“, he said. In addition, he highlighted that Navarra has a “very favorable context for the deployment of this program”, which “will undoubtedly improve and modernize the public university, favoring its growth and its continued development.
For his part, Cigudosa stressed that “the Spanish government, the autonomous communities and public universities are working to definitively end a situation of precariousness that was unacceptable in our universities.” “It is the consequence of stages marked by the logic of austerity and disinvestment which have had different impacts on our territories”, he underlined, after having criticized “the consequences of this neglect have led to In Spanish public universities, temporary employment averages 49%“since the average age of professional staff in Spanish public universities is 56 years old.
As he explained, from the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities “we assessed, in collaboration with the autonomous governments and the rectors, what were the most appropriate measures to break this dynamic of underfunding of teacherswith replacement rates close to zero and a truly irresponsible growth in numbers like precarious teachers.
“The result of all this is the signing of the agreement for the María Goyri Research Teaching Talent Integration Program, an agreement that adds to those already signed with Asturias, Castile-La Mancha and Catalonia”, he declared, after adding that “70% of research carried out in our country is done in universities” and of this percentage, ” 95% in public universities “.
Cigudosa added that the creation of 76 doctoral assistant professor positions at UPNA “This involves increasing the number of places it currently has by 92%.” “For the first time, the Spanish government is directly responsible for the salaries of professors and university researchers since the transfer of powers, which demonstrates this government’s commitment to co-governance,” he stressed. .
Finally, the rector of UPNA, Ramón Gonzaloreported that “one of the most significant changes” in LOSU is the reduction in the number of teaching hours that associate professors can teach“which generates the need to hire new teachers to cover the hours that these teachers will no longer be able to cover.” “In the specific case of UPNA, this arrangement amounts to covering a total of 246 hours of teaching. LOSU rightly establishes that these hours must be covered by professors who ensure the stability of the university system, preferably through the figure of the assistant doctor professor,” he noted.
In this sense, he indicated that “today is an important and historic day”, since “The signing of this agreement guarantees that in the years to come we will be able to integrate the necessary personnel to cover pending teaching hours and encourage the entry of new teachers.
“The UPNA has prepared the process so that once the agreement is signed and the 46 places financed by the Spanish government are authorized by the Government of Navarra, the selection process can be called which allows us to integrate the selected candidates as quickly as possible. The other 30 positions will be integrated over the next three years,” he said.
