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Following a meeting in the day, amid concerns about the effect on the development of university activity may have decreased measures of financial contributions to the public system of our region, Directors and Deans of all Centers Polytechnic University of Cartagena, issue the following statement:
The Regional Government's claim that public universities take much of the cut that involves rebalancing plan submitted to the Council of Fiscal and Financial Policy, in contradiction with the discourse of new ways to bet on economic growth based society Knowledge.
While the EU Structural Funds allocated more resources to training, innovation and research to respond to globalization, making it more competitive European economy and trying to reconcile the need for growth and competitiveness with social cohesion objectives and development sustainable in the Region of Murcia is used to cut, without any explained or expressed explicitly the criteria followed and without analyzing the impact beyond the allowances of staff, will have long term these decisions.
A model public university like the Region of Murcia, well-coordinated with two universities, each serving a part of the training needs of young people should champion entrepreneurial growth could be at risk.
In the case of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, their contribution to the training of engineers, architects and entrepreneurs seems not properly valued by the regional leaders.
It is a complex formation in which, beyond class time and labs, students have opportunity to do internships in companies, participate in research projects, developing business-building projects, or professional counseling.
All these tasks have been carried out with funding well below what is spent on higher education in other European Union countries, thus achieving high productivity has been recognized in various forums and organizations.
It is obvious that no one agency or public administration should avoid their commitment to the optimization of available resources.
Thus both the UMU as UPCT have been able in the past two years to substantially reduce their budgets, to proceed with a process of adaptation to the European Higher Education has been done with bargain prices, or maintain their teaching and research even if the regional government has not allowed the execution of many of the recognized budget.
All stakeholders agree that our region needs of business-oriented industrial projects and innovative telecommunications, maintenance and technological development of food industry, civil engineering projects sound and a rethinking of architectural and technological aspects of the construction sector.
In addition, naval and sea technologies, the bio-based food and agriculture, infrastructure and smart energy management, have been areas where the UMU UPCT and have been identified as potential centers of excellence nationwide.
For these reasons, the Directors and Dean of the Centers for Regional UPCT urge the Government to take appropriate measures to ensure fair financing, safe and proper so that the public university system in our region can successfully address its role as a catalyst for change in the production model that is both demanding.
Source: UPCT
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