• The Government delegate and the Rector have also addressed other topics such as Recovery and Resilience Mechanism funds and for research
The Delegation of the Government of Spain in Cantabria and the University of Cantabria (UC) have signed this morning an agreement so that 10 undergraduate and master's students can each take an internship in the areas of management of the state administration.
The government delegate in Cantabria, Pedro Casares, and the rector of the UC, Conchi López, have signed the agreement this Friday in the framework of their first institutional meeting, which has been developed in the facilities of the University.
The meeting was also attended by the vice-rectors of Sustainability and Spaces, María Margallo; Digital Transformation, José Luis Bosque; University Transformation, Gabriel Moncalián; and Students, Employability and Entrepreneurship, Íñigo Casfont, as well as the manager, Santiago Fuente.
The agreement provides that ten undergraduate and master’s students of the UC can carry out practices, both curricular and extracurricular, in the Delegation of the Government of Cantabria. In the case of curricula it will be a minimum of 150 hours and a maximum of 750, and in extracurricular ones, the equivalent in hours to no more than 50% of the academic year.
The ten places for internships in the Delegation will cover both social and technical profiles and the UC will prepare the calls for these practices “immediately” with the intention that those who compete to complete their training in the areas of State management in Cantabria can join in “the coming weeks”.
Casares has considered the agreement between the Government Delegation and UC to make it easier for students to be trained in state administration in the community, which was a “pending subject,” an “extraordinary piece of news.”
For her part, the rector has highlighted the commitment of the UC to “work increasingly in expanding the offers” for the practices of the students because “it is an essential way both to complete their training and for their labor insertion and to connect with the social and productive fabric”.
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOVERNMENT OF SPAIN AND UNIVERSITY
At the meeting, the government delegate and the rector have analyzed the relationship between the Government of Spain and UC, reviewing common issues for both institutions, such as the funds of the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism (MRR) managed by UC.
Casares highlighted that between 2018 and 2024, the Government of Spain invested a total of 226.6 million euros in projects, research and research centers of the University, of which 164.4 million have been allocated to 914 research projects, which places UC as “one of the universities that has the most capacity to attract competitive funds.”
At this point, he pointed out that between 2021 and 2024 alone, an average of 22.9 million have arrived in Cantabria in competitive calls every year, 64% compared to the years of the 2012-2017 period.
Along with this, it has also indicated that the Government of Spain has contributed since 2018 a total of 43.1 million to the mixed centers of the region, which are two sets Higher Council of Scientific Research (CSIC) and UC -the Institute of Physics of Cantabria (IFCA) and the Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology of Cantabria (IBBTEC)- and the Oceanographic Center of Santander (IEO-CSIC).
Likewise, he pointed out that more than 30 million euros of European funds have arrived at UC in the last three years with which projects, research and works of improvement of facilities such as those developed in the Faculty of Sciences are being promoted.
The Chancellor also referred to these European funds and praised “a very important part related to the financing of research” and that has come through competitive projects that UC has attended.
López also highlighted the funding that the University receives through the state research programs and that “is a fundamental area that allows us to maintain the levels of competence and research excellence of the UC.”