The document has been presented by the Vice-Principal for Territorial Projection and Participation, Jorge Hermosilla, and by the delegate of the Principal for the Strategic Plan, Tomás González. The Vice-Principal has explained that all the planning has to be flexible, especially in a context like the current one, which he has characterized as unstable and even hostile.

The Strategic Plan (PEUV, for its initials in Catalan) shows the objectives and priorities that will set the course of the University during the 2016-2019 timespan. Regarding its contents, the document has a four-strategy structure: teaching, research, life in campus and participation, and transference and innovation. With each of these strategies, the institution will be able to attend to the specific and varied needs of a broad and heterogeneous group of collectives, using a common set of resources.

As for the elaboration of the document, the redaction of PEUV is the result of a collective reflection process which capitalises on the previous experiences and the knowledge acquired throughout eight years of existence of the strategic plans, starting with the first one in 2008.

Among its several objectives, this initiative intends to ensure and fortify our ability to attract new undergraduate and postgraduate students; foster the external recognition of degrees’ and centres’ quality; improve the satisfaction of the students regarding the university experience that the Universitat de València offers; provide a comprehensive orientation to the students on a vocational, professional and academic levels, enhancing their future employability; develop the multilingualism in the University, strengthening our language; potentiate the international dimension of our degrees; enhance the transition of the students from undergraduate to postgraduate levels; design a postgraduate offer that will fit the requirements of quality research and employability; increase scientific productivity and production; increase high impact scientific production; improve the appraisal of University’s culture dissemination activities; promote values related to our development as human beings, such as solidarity, cooperation, progress, sustainability, excellence and equality through the implementation of the plan; and improve the visibility of activities and results that fortify the prestige of the institution.

Protocol for Intellectual Property in digital environments

Furthermore, the Governing Council has approved the Protocol for Use of Materials Eligible for Protection by the Intellectual Property Laws in Digital Environments. The document has been presented by the Vice-Principal for Internationalisation and Cooperation, Guillermo Palau, who has announced future regulations of the application of these measures, as well as dissemination initiatives.

In compliance with the current legislation, any literary, artistic or scientific work, in any format, that allows its sharing and dissemination is eligible for protection.

The protocol approved by the Governing Council applies to the Aula Virtual (UV’s Virtual Classroom) environment; to official webpages; to multimedia materials stored at UV’s own resources (MMedia, Roderic) or at external resources, as is the case of institutional accounts (such as YouTube, Flickr, Instagram or equivalent social networks); and to the rest of digital materials eligible for protection by intellectual property legislation, from either printed or electronic original sources.

In accordance with the protocol, the Universitat de València “does not take any responsibility for the use of any material that could generate intellectual property rights in spaces or resources different from the ones mentioned here.” This way, “it is forbidden to share these materials in personal pages stored at servers owned by the Universitat de València, unless permission or rights for publishing such materials were previously granted.”

Therefore, it is forbidden to share these materials in personal pages stored at UV’s servers, unless there is an authorization for their use. The Universitat de València can transmit the demand of responsibility to those who transgress the intellectual property rights.

Institutional condolences

In his report, the Principal has conveyed his institutional condolences on the death of several members of the university community during the last weeks. It is the case of Ignacio Docavo, emeritus professor of the Faculty of Biological Sciences, and the director and founder of the Viveros Zoological Garden; of ETSE’s Department of Computer Science professor, Salvador Moreno; of the artist and full university professor of the Department of Musical, Plastic and Corporal Expression (from 1966 to 1991), Joaquín Michavila; and of the deputy director of Practices of ADEIT, Francisco Adrover.