The UPV’s Gandia and Alcoy campuses are drawing up common strategies for growth, infrastructure, research and cultural offerings.
The management teams of the Gandia and Alcoy campuses of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) have met with the aim of initiating a series of joint and regular work. The first of these meetings, held in Alcoy, was chaired by the directors of the two centers, Vicenç Almenar, from the Gandia campus, and Pau Bernabeu, from the Alcoy campus.
“This is the first time that the two campuses have met,” said Bernabeu, “and we want to work together on those common needs and difficulties that also unite us”. For his part, Vicenç Almenar, director of the Gandia campus, said that “these working meetings will be repeated periodically in the future, and will help us to coordinate and get more out of our common efforts”.
During the meeting, the two management teams discussed, among other issues, the need to interpret and analyze the new statutes of the UPV that grant the status of university campus to Gandia and Alcoy, and to study what actions the two centers can face autonomously.
Culture, research and degrees
Following the meeting of the management teams of the two campuses, “sectoral meetings have been held “that have allowed closer contacts to be established in the areas of each sub-directorate,” explained the director of the Gandia campus, Vicenç Almenar.
With regard to the infrastructures although the two campuses have been satisfied with the investments made in recent years, they consider it necessary to plan specific actions and investments in each campus in the general budgets of the UPV: sports areas, buildings, offices or green areas.
Another aspect raised is the decision to share joint projects. The program includes cultural activities, discussion forums, entrepreneurship activities and an employment forum, among others.
The research by teachers and doctoral students will also be shared between the two campuses. In fact, the Alcoy campus has made available to the Gandia campus the science park of the central regions, located in the Viaducte building and soon in the Bambú building.
Finally, the two campuses will work in a coordinated manner to achieve the following objectives new degrees and master’s degrees. In this regard, there is already the precedent of the Double Degree in Business Administration and Management + Tourism. This degree allows students to simultaneously obtain the Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and Management, which is offered at the Alcoy campus, and the Bachelor’s Degree in Tourism, which is offered in Gandia.