The General Conference on University Policy, held this Wednesday and chaired by the Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities, Diana Morant, has ratified the approval of the Program for the Incorporation of Teaching and Research Talent to Spanish Public Universities, which will allocate 54,173 euros to La Rioja for the incorporation of 5 assistant professors doctor to their public universities.
With this program, the Government will finance the hiring of 3,400 assistant professors from the next academic year 2024-2025 for six years in Spanish public universities. The result of the vote was 17 votes in favour (one Ministry and 16 Autonomous Communities) and one vote against (a single Autonomous Community).
The General Conference on University Policy, formed by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MICIU) and the autonomous communities, has given the green light to the initial investment of 46.7 million euros for the implementation of the program in all the autonomies and the UNED, as well as the distribution criteria, authorized on Tuesday by the Council of Ministers.
Minister Morant said that “never before has a government expressed such a clear and resounding commitment to public universities in our country; and we do so with the total conviction that universities are a great social elevator and the guarantee of research to take on the challenges of society.”
The EUR 46.7 million authorised yesterday by the Council of Ministers will cover, during the period from 1 September to 31 December 2024, the cost of the 3,400 teaching assistant doctor positions.
150 million euros investment per academic year
In total, the MICIU will allocate an amount of 150 million euros per academic year per academic year from the 2024-2025 academic year and during the six years of duration of this contract modality, for the financing of these places, which will subsequently have to stabilize the universities.
The minister has advanced that, after this decision by the General Conference of University Policy, “the agreements and agreements with the Autonomous Communities that want to participate in the Program will be signed.”
“A fundamental step has been taken today. Now we have to take another step as important as this with the signing of the agreements so that the Government of the State and the autonomous communities commit ourselves to make all the necessary changes in the universities to lower the temporality from the current 49% on average to 20%, which is the objective set in the Organic Law of the University System (LOSU),” said Morant.
For La Rioja, the total distribution of teaching positions amounts to 9., which will be financed with funds from the Ministry and the autonomies and according to the criteria defined in the agreement and according to the total needs of teachers.