UPV-EHU
UPV-EHU and the Basque Government have started Science Week with mutual thanks
The event comes after tension over the funding of the public university, but both institutions have called for cooperation and mutual respect.
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A summary, in two words, of what will be news in the Present today.
Imanol Pradales: "UPV has never had so many resources"
The Lehendakari has stated that the UPV/EHU budget will increase by 6.9% by 2026, in addition to an increase of 5.2% by 2025, and has stressed that in two years the regular budget has increased by 12%.
Bengoetxea calls for institutional respect for the UPV and calls for an urgent meeting of the lehendakari
This has been answered by the Rector of the University of the Basque Country to Councillor Pérez Iglesias, who has denied in the Basque Parliament that the public university receives less money than it should.
Pérez Iglesias highlights the "firm commitment" of the Basque Government to the UPV
The Vice-Minister for Science, Universities and Innovation has stressed that the regular contribution of the Basque Government to the UPV/EHU in 2026 is EUR 339 million, 6.9% more than this year, and has even explained that the amount allocated to the public university is the highest in its history.
A new Council of Official Languages is formed, changing its "form and substance"
Perez Iglesias replies to the PP that the cleaning of campus paintings is the responsibility of the UPV
PP MP Muriel Larrea has called on the Basque Government to "immediately" clean up the painted on the UPV/EHU campuses, in his speeches, because they are becoming "suffocating" spaces for "those who do not share the ideas of the left abertzale."
The UPV/EHU rector has stated that the draft budget presented by the Government leads the university to paralysis
The Department has increased the amount allocated to the public university by 6.3% (19 million euros). According to the rector, this money only serves to close the year without loss. Joxerramon Bengoetxea has asked the Basque Government to review the draft budget.
The UPV has indicated to the parties that it has a budgetary need of EUR 607 million
The current %78 budget is used to "daily base base front pA0, which is not da sufficient".
EH Bildu has stressed that "we should not question" the participation of the Ertzaintza in a criminology course
UPV/EHU points out that the Ertzainas cancelled the session after detecting messages calling for the boycott
University Counselor Juan Ignacio Pérez Iglesias says it's "unacceptable" to suspend the speech of two ertzainas from the Ibaeta Faculty of Criminology
The Counsellor has pointed out that the fact that this has happened at the Faculty of Law and Criminology is even more serious. She believes that this is an attack on freedom of expression, that it is a fundamental right, and has ensured that such events are only part of a campaign to delegitimize the Ertzaintza as an institution and a culture of coercion that has persisted.
The Basque Government's Department of Security has condemned the "boycott" of two ertzainas at the UPV
Some students in the criminology course protested that these agents wouldn't give a lecture, and the teachers decided to abandon the dynamic.
The Quantum Mile, a tool to make their scientific work visible
The presentation was attended by Juan Ignacio Pérez Iglesias, Counsellor for Science, Universities and Innovation; Juana Goizueta, Vice-Rector of the Gipuzkoa campus of the UPV/EHU; and Javier Aizpurua, Director of the Basque Quantum. Access to the virtual visit can be obtained through the QR codes installed in the physical totems of the tour.
UPV/EHU's Álava campus has become the first smoke-free university area
The Álava campus of the University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea has become the first university area to join the Network of Smoke-free Centres, created by the Basque Government in 2021 in collaboration with the Basque Country Forales Deputies and Municipalities, with the aim, among other objectives, of preventing the start of consumption of derivatives such as tobacco and vaporizers.
Science Week celebrates its 25th anniversary with 200 free activities for all ages
On 22 October, the registration deadline for the workshops and didactic courses of the three Basque capitals and Barakaldo will be opened.
They burned and crossed containers at UPV's access to Leioa
The UPV Student Council has joined the general unemployment called for October 15 in support of Palestine
In a statement, the Student Council has explained that the call for an academic stoppage has been aimed at facilitating the cessation of violence and participation in demonstrations calling for the protection of the human rights of the Palestinian people.
Institutional unemployment at the UPV in solidarity with Palestine and the Sumud flotilla
Under the slogan "UPV with Palestine. Stop Genocide", the rallies convened by the EHu rectory team have been held from 11 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. on the three university campuses.
They have confirmed the presence of chemical compounds in the blood of minors in the Urola and the Goierri
A UPV/EHU study concludes that levels of PFAS chemical compounds found in minors do not pose a serious health risk, but warns of the need to strengthen surveillance.