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The Basque Government and the UPV agree on the basis of the new University Plan 2027-2030

At this first meeting, the five main axes to be included in the University System Plan have been set out. In the coming months, planning will be defined to ensure adequate actions and infrastructure.

Gobierno Vasco y EHU pactan, tras trabajar "con bastante lealtad", las bases del nuevo plan universitario 2027-2030
Meeting between the Basque Government and the UPV to define the University System Plan. Photo: Europa Press

Juan Ignacio Pérez Iglesias , Counsellor for Science, Universities and Innovationof theBasque Government  andJoxerramon Bengoetxea , Rector of the UPV/EHU, have agreed this Friday on the basis of the new University Plan 2027-2030 , where so far disagreements and differences of opinion have prevailed.

Both parties appeared this Friday to reporton the agreement, which was attended by Counsellor Juan Ignacio Perez Iglesias and Rector ofthe UPV/EHU Joxerramon Bengoetxea , together with Vice-Chancellor of University Policy  Xabier Aizpurua and Vice-President of University Policy .

In this regard, work hasbeen done on the strategic axes to be included in the next Plan of the University System and on how to combine the needs and academic projects oftheUPV with the axes proposed by the Department. The Rector has pointed out that this pact for the establishment of a work plan is "good news for the entire Basque university community and for society itself".

For his part, Pérez Iglesias mentions  that the two parallel lines initially dividedhave finally converged , so that, from distant approaches, they have been able to establish a framework around the university plan in which the demands and desires of the university will be worked out.

At this first meeting, five of the main axes that the University System Plan wants to include have been consolidated: the promotion of cutting-edge research, enhancing the international experience of teachers and researchers; the preservation of the university community; the strengthening of university internationalization; the promotion of collaboration between university and business; and the implementation of initiatives to adapt digitization and artificial intelligence to teaching and university activity as a whole.

Thus, in the coming months, actions relating to these five main axes, as well as specific planning to ensure adequate infrastructure, will be defined, addressing the needs and academic projects of the UPV/EHU, and considering how to organize with the five axes mentioned above.

The University System Plan is the main instrument for setting funding needs and academic objectivesfor the next four years.  The proposals of the UPV/EHU that are excluded from the University Plan, such as those relating to the salaries of researchers and young teachers, will be analysed at a later stage and the corresponding decisions will be taken.

Both groups undertake to jointly address the needs of  as a priority in 2026, such as financing safety assurance works; advancing the creation of PTGAS jobs to promote research and implement the welfare plan; and analysing the needs, activities and conditions of teaching and research staff, "progressively agreeing on the measures necessary to implement them".

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