She has also reported the different levels of contact made with the more than 390 students who are in a situation in which there is evidence of community transmission (Italy, South Korea and Japan) and with the university community itself (PDI and students) of the Universitat in matters of advices, recommendations and instructions to follow in case of detecting infections, to which she has referred, mentioning that the institution always follows the instructions of Public Health from the Valencian government.

All information related to Coronavirus, including the general recommendations for the university community are provided on the following webpage, which has been set up by the Universitat to that effect: www.uv.es/coronavirus

UV degrees catalogue

On the other side, the Governing Council has passed the UV degrees catalogue for the academic year 2020-2021. Vice-principal of Studies and Language Policy, Isabel Vázquez, has explained that there are 246 degrees (among which there are Master’s degrees, diplomas, experts and certificates) of all branches of knowledge of the Universitat. This number is similar to former academic year’s, which means an “effort of quality and adaptation to the educational needs of the Valencian society”, according to the vice-principal.

Offer of PDI occupation

Distribution of the replacement rate of staff and public offer of PDI occupation for 2020 have also been approved. This point has been suggested by the Vice-principal of Academic Regulations and Teaching Staff, Ernest Cano.

It means 124 places to foster promotion and stabilisation of staff. 19 places of these are for contracts of the Ramón y Cajal programme. From the rest, 57 are for tenure-track 1 professor, 34 (plus 4 extra from the year before) of promotion to tenured professor, seven for stabilisation of adjunct professor and 30 for promotion to full university professor.

Institutional condolences

In her report, the Principal expressed the institutional condolences for the recent deaths of people linked to the Universitat de València. They are Asunción Bueso, administrative of the Faculty of Physiotherapy; Joan Pelechano, former professor of Computer Science and Electronics, who was director of the School of Engineering (ETSE); and Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan poet, who was invested ‘doctor honoris causa’ by the Universitat de València in 1987.