The president of Crue Spanish Universities, D. Second Píriz, and the General Director of Bank Santander and director of Santander Universities, José Antonio Villasante, and the rector of the University of Murcia, D. José Oriola, as a university coordinator, have signed yesterday day 13 of July a convention for the development of the Project Hèrcules, an important tool of management of projects of university research.

The participation of the rest of the universities that form part of Crue Spanish Universities and that want adherir- to the project, will formalise by means of the signature of successive agreements, that will concretise the way of participation of cadascuna of them.

As the convention, Crue Spanish Universities engage to lean and drive institucionalment the project Hèrcules, as well as to difondre the results between the Spanish universities and promote the use of the resultant software of the project.

The universities participants, for his band, engage to promote the necessary initiatives for the engegada of the project, as well as to implant the pilot project and collaborate with Crue Spanish Universities in the diffusion of the same to the rest of universities interested. Bank Santander for his band, will materialise through Santander Universities, his economic backrest to the project with 600.000 euros. 


The project Hèrcules arises how an initiative of Crue Spanish Universities, through his sectorial TIC, to create the bases of a new model of collaboration between universities for the development of his systems of management. The implantation of this system in the universities will contribute the following profits:

Realise the conjoint exploitation of relative information to the research.

• Unify the criteria for the obtenció of information, offering greater guarantees of a suitable interpretation of the information and, with this, the exactitud of the indicators obtained.

• Can establish greater quantity of synergies and collaborations between universities and groups of research.

• Greater eases for the technological transfer and for the collaboration between university-company.

• Facilitate the knowledge of the scientific production, so much for the rest of researchers and how for the society in general.

• Facilitate the integration of the curriculum vitae normalised. Greater ease for the mobility of the PDI between the Spanish universities.

• Total transparency of data, in providing with greater ease to the user, to the taxpayer and to the society in general statistical data that can be rellevants since the point of the transparency in the exercise of the public service, attending to the vocation of transparency and surrender of accounts of the Spanish universities.

• En definitiva, permetre l'explotació conjunta d'informació de recerca de totes les universitats, permetent amb açò una total transparència en la gestió universitària.