A place reserved to gipsy students in each of the degrees of the Universitat de València

The Universitat de València activates next academic year 2025-2026 the reservation of a place for gipsy students that have participated in the integration educative project Kumpania after the Comisión Gestora de la Prueba de Acceso a la Universidad accorded it unanimously fruit of the coordination between the five Valencian public universities, the Secretaría Autonómica de Universidades and the Secretaría Autonómica de Igualdad y Diversidad.

A measure whose goal is favouring the access to superior education to young people from the gipsy ethnic that, for five years, have coursed their studies of mandatory secondary education and upper secondary school education inside the programme Kumpania or Kumpania Plus.

The reservation will be additional to the offered places in each degree and will be able for appliance exclusively for those students who, having participated in the project, haven’t obtained a place in the desired degree through the general contingent in the ordinary phase of pre-enrolment. With this initiative, the Universitat de València reinforces their compromise with equal opportunities, educative inclusion and the recognition of the effort made by gipsy students.

On the occasion of the commemoration of the 600 years of the arrival of the gipsy community to Spain, the Universitat de València has work this year in the creation of a network of gipsy students that have had different activities such as the first meeting of university gipsy students that had place 21 February in the La Nau Cultural Centre and in which participated representatives of the CampusRom network and other entities from the local area such as the Fundación Secretariado Gitano (FSG), the Federación Autonómica de Asociaciones Gitanas de la Comunidad Valenciana (FAGA), the asociación Kali Yag or the servicio IgualaT de la Generalitat Valenciana, that explained how the project was born and the type of acitivities that were developed.

At the same time, inside the acts that the Universitat de València organises on the occasion of the celebration of the Gypsy Community Day, the labour, syndicalist, feminist and activist lawyer for human rights of gypsy origin, Pastora Filigrana, gave a conference about feminism and resistance strategies for the gypsy community last April in the Faculty of Law.