This meeting completes the meetings with the most representative students’ unions.
After the meetings held during the election campaign with the SAÓ and BEA unions, the candidate for the Principal's Office, with part of her team, met with the UNIÓ union. Representatives from the Blasco Ibáñez, Burjassot and Tarongers campuses participated, although a large part of the meeting dealt with issues affecting the Tarongers campus, where the union has greater representation.
There was a call for the drinking fountains recovery, which has been proposed in meetings with other unions, and Mavi Mestre said that the recovery of the service is already underway and is a key initiative for the reduction of plastic use and for greater overall health.
The proposal to extend the University's medical services opening hours was also made across all campuses. One of the students, from the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, suggested that the participation of students from the final years of the health sciences degrees, especially Medicine, in the medical services should be studied. The candidate welcomed the proposal, but said that it needed to be studied very carefully because of the implications that this type of collaboration could have.
Even so, the principal did commit herself to studying ways of reinforcing the health services, and communicated the initiative to set up a programme linked to mental health by means of a travelling services around the University campuses, a project which, moreover, is related to the initiative announced by the Minister of Universities during his recent visit to the Universitat de València.
Another element demanded was the establishment of measures in campus cafeterias to take into account food preferences and intolerances, mainly coeliac disease. In this regard, they proposed that cafeteria service concessionaires offer adapted menus and the establishment of a specific microwave for intolerant people.
They also asked for more charging points for electronic devices in the classrooms. The candidate for principal reported, as she has done in other meetings during this campaign, that an electrification plan is already being implemented on the campuses which, among other things, will address the needs of the student body in this area.
Next, the chapter addressed the chapter on measures to promote sustainable mobility, such as fitting out some space in campus buildings to store electric scooters, which are increasingly used by students, or the placement of public access points, such as the one that has been established in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento de València, to inflate tyres.
Regarding to specific matters on the Tarongers Campus, the issue of parking on this campus was discussed. It was commented that there is a car park that is closed, next to the cemetery, that the car park in the west area needs an improvement in the pavement and that changes should be considered in the access and exit of the car park on Avenida Ramón Llull in order to reduce the queues that form in this street. Some measures were also proposed to prevent the infractions that sometimes occur in the car park, such as beatings and thefts, which could be solved, according to the student representatives, with stricter surveillance measures. Both the principal and the team accompanying her undertook to analyse the situation and propose measures.
In a cordial atmosphere, initiatives were discussed that have been the subject of conversation in all the meetings with the student body, such as promoting measures for participation and dynamisation of student life. In this regard, the principal reported on the current state of the Lluís Vives space reform and asked the student body to actively participate in filling it with activities when it is up and running, and the current vice-principal for Culture and Sport, Esther Alba, spoke of a new space at the Burjassot Campus for the calisthenics practice.
Before saying goodbye, the candidate for principal recalled the importance of voting in the elections because, despite the fact that there is only one candidate, it will provide the management team that will lead the University for the next few years with enough institutional support.
