The budget of the UV grows from 350 up to 500 million euros in 7 years
The Universitat de València approves the general lines of the budget for 2026, that will beat the 500 million euros, consolidating an increase of more than 30% in four years and reaffirming their compromise with financial sufficiency, despite the uncertainty derived from the lack of a long-term funding plan and an accumulated debt of 152 million on the part of the Government of the Valencian Community.
18 de july de 2025
During the Senate session celebrated on Thursday, 17 June in the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Medicine and Odontology, on the 7th item on the agenda, the general lines that will serve as a roadmap for the elaboration of a budget corresponding to the 2026 exercise, were debated and approved.
The Vice-Dean for Economics and Infrastructures, Justo Herrera, was in charge of presenting the project to the university community. A project “marked by the uncertainty derived from the macroeconomic context and the absence of a long-term funding plan, which greatly makes planning difficult”. Despite this, the UV foresees a balance between income and outcome, with an estimated increase of 9,7 million euros in both chapters.
The budget of the Universitat de València will beat in 2026 the symbolic barrier of 500 million euros, with an increase of 4,9% regarding the last exercise. This amount will allow to guarantee financial sufficiency for the development of essential activities of the institution.
The prevision consolidates a sustainable growth trajectory, with an accumulated increment of more than 30% in the last four years and of more than 150 million euros regarding the exercise of 2018, year in which the current dean team got into the government.
As for the cash flow, the Vice-Dean pointed that it is maintained in similar lines as the last exercises. The Universitat de València usually suffers from delays in the transferences on the part of the Government of the Valencian Community, which accumulates a pending debt of 152,3 millions of euros, corresponding the monthly payment and ordinary subventions of the last years. Though this circumstance affects the quotidian functioning of the institution, the UV has manifested their will of not moving this impact to their suppliers, maintaining an average payment deadline of only 14,3 days.
The bucket project for 2026 adopts a restrictive character, oriented to guaranteeing the financial balance, as long as its maintained, at least, the total volume of public transferences proceeding from the Government of the Valencian Community destined to the universities.
In this sense, the Vice-Dean has underlined the necessity of doing a rigorous tracking of chapters 1 (personal) and 2 (functioning), with the purpose of avoiding deviations. At the same time, it will be the amount assigned to chapter 6 which will guarantee the continuity of the investment projects in infrastructures during the next budgetary exercises.