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Bengoetxea hopes to "bring" the debate back to university with the UPV needs report
According to the UPV rector, an investment of €192 million is "essential" to prevent the "irreversible degradation" of the university's essential services.
Counselor Pérez Iglesias has stated that there are "opportunities" to resolve his differences with the UPV/EHU
Asked if this confrontation with the UPV rector, Joserramon Bengoetxea, responds to political questions, Pérez Iglesias has replied that Bengoetxea has already stated that this is not the case. "He said no and I must believe him," he added.
Jose Ramon Bengoetxea (UPV): "Our only beauty is university politics"
The players of the Palestinian football team will be given free accommodation at a UPV headquarters
Palestinian footballers will live at the Miguel de Unamuno College during their stay in Bilbao. The president of the Basque Football Federation, Iker Goñi, has explained that this Saturday's meeting will be the most crowded match ever played by the Basque team at home, with more than 50,000 tickets sold in three weeks.
Perez Iglesias: "The demand for $100 million to raise salaries would mean that each teacher would receive an additional 20,000 euros."
The Minister of Science, Universities and Innovation of the Basque Government, Juan Ignacio Pérez Iglesias, has stressed that he will shortly meet with Rector Joxerramon Bengoetxea, but that both have agreed to "tone down" until then.
It will be a private meeting between the UPV/EHU rector and the University Counsellor
The appointment has been agreed, the exact date has not been set, but it will be before 19 November, when the rector will appear in the Basque Parliament.
The University Counselor will call the UPV rector today to try to calm the tension
The President replied to Bengoetxea: "First of all, it is best to meet with Counselor Pérez Iglesias."
For her part, the Director of Science, Universities and Innovation has been offended that the UPV/EHU rector has asked for a meeting with the President of the Basque Government without regard to Counsellor Inm. "It's not the best way to make friends," she said.
Juan Ignacio Perez Iglesias: "I'm worried and sad"
The Minister of Science, Universities and Innovation of the Basque Government, Juan Ignacio Pérez Iglesias, has said that he is prepared to talk "whatever it takes" but believes that he is missing a great opportunity to do great things at the UPV.
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.
News: the victory of Zohran Mamdani in New York, the verdict against the Donostiarra masseur and Dani Alvarez will receive the Basque Journalists Award
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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".