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The Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) currently trains professionals with the highest employment rate in the Region.

This training responds to the demand of the regional and national productive fabric.

For this reason, during his speech at the Academic Act of Santo Tomás de Aquino, the rector, Alejandro Díaz Morcillo, insisted on the actions of the UPCT aimed at the generation of knowledge, quality training, the connection with society and respond to your needs.

"What works, can work better," he said, but "as a researcher, as an engineer and as an advocate of progress," he objected that "we still have a lot of room for improvement."

Díaz Morcillo referred to the connection of investment in R & D with economic growth, a topic that focused on the Magisterial Lesson of Professor Juan Patricio Castro.

The Rector said "how something so obvious does not push our leaders and our businessmen to invest more in R & D, and we are currently at 1.22% of GDP when the EU objective for 2020 is 3 % ".

In this sense, the Rector outlined what, in his opinion, are grounds for hope in research and transfer.

Among them, he stressed that the Seneca Foundation Science and Technology Agency of the Region of Murcia has increased the budget for its research programs by € 3.5m, reaching € 8m this 2018.

He also referred to the Chairs of Enterprise, which rely on the UPCT as a support partner for innovation.

"Last year we incorporated 12 new ones and we closed 2017 with a total of 38," he said.

The Rector manifested UPCT's commitment to online teaching: training "anywhere and anytime".

In this sense he argued that "as a peripheral university and badly connected with the rest of Spain, we have an opportunity with online teaching".

Díaz recalled that the technical degrees suffer from low enrollment in the degree, something that affects the entire Spanish university but stressed that, in the UPCT enrollment in master's degrees increased by 25% over the previous year.

In own titles, it multiplied by 2.6 with respect to the 2015-2016 academic year and by 12 with respect to 2014-2015.

During his speech, the Rector highlighted the commitment to transparency and outlined several positive results that appear in the first report of Accountability of the UPCT, the first presented by a University in the Region and the second in Spain.

Among them, the increase of the self-financing of the university, which has gone from 20.4% in 2014 to 25.8% in 2016. Also the increase in the enrollment of master's students and own degrees;

the increase from 41% to 47% in paid internships in companies;

the growth of 18% of international mobility.

He also highlighted the fact that the number of participants in entrepreneurial actions has tripled, which has translated into the fact that during the past academic year UPCT students created 17 start-ups (emerging companies) and researchers 3 EBT (Companies of Technological Base) and, "all of them with a fundamental characteristic: their products or services are technological, innovative and internationalizable", he added.

Díaz gave an extensive review of the results of the UPCT in the last year, to the situation of technological vocations, congratulated the reference teachers, the distinguished students with the extraordinary end-of-course, end-of-degree and master's degree awards , to the new doctors and extraordinary doctoral awards, to professors and PAS (Administration and Services Staff) who received the medal for the services rendered and the Social Council awards.

Finally, the Rector recalled that this year the UPCT turns 20 years.

"It will not be a year of celebrations or celebrations.

We do not have money for that and, if we had it, we would spend it on something more productive, "he said.

Díaz said that the Polytechnic of Cartagena is "a university committed to finding solutions to the current problems of the region, lever of its economic and social development, and that, from this region, wants to host in their classrooms (physical or virtual) to any student in the world, and in its laboratories to the most talented researchers. "

Source: UPCT