The Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), through its Governing Council, has approved this Thursday the call for an “unprecedented” public job offer due to the more than “significant” growth of the institution’s teaching and research activity. . A clear commitment to retaining one’s own talent in a context in which companies – including Valencian ones – are in a tough fight for technological talent, largely coming from public universities like this one.
Specifically, the agreement, reached unanimously, includes the full-time promotion of 6% of the entire teaching and research staff (PDI) of the UPV -about 120 people-; 101 new doctor assistant positions, of which between 40 and 50 can be occupied by associate professors and up to 15 of them will be announced with the aim of retaining the best talent trained at the UPV through the Cantera Jóvenes Doctores program; and 14 new full-time professor positions, which will have the i3/r3 accreditation requirement and are intended for the stabilization of researchers from programs of excellence such as Ramón y Cajal or GENT. In total, 235 places.
The institution explains that it is on the path towards a “necessary orderly generational renewal” that will occur over the next decade. Since 2003, the average number of new places per year has been 20.5, with a maximum peak of 63 in 2021, all of which are very far from the more than 100 this year.
The Cantera program aspires to retain the best young talent trained at the UPV, offering them opportunities for stabilization in their teaching careers, in order to address “with guarantees” an orderly and necessary generational renewal over the next decade. An example of this commitment to local talent is the approval of the proposal for the appointment as honorary doctor of Enrique Lores Obrador, current president and CEO of HP Inc, a company that recently located in Valencia with its own center.
The proposal for the appointment of Lores is made by the Higher Technical School of Industrial Engineering (ETSII-UPV) and endorsed by the Engineering Institute of Spain for considering him an example of “excellence for his contribution to the successful resolution of large complex and global, both technical and innovative as well as business organization”, and seeks to recognize an “extraordinary professional with enormous involvement in defending the importance of universities and training.”
