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"The Campus of Excellence project is most all of the faith"
. Celebrate St. Thomas Aquinas has, among its many possible meanings yvlidos, the reminder that the task of the university is almost ancient, and that comes from an irrevocable commitment to the use of reason to discover the Key nature and society, and thus to improve the course of human affairs.
The man wants to know: this is the foundation of the University. And today, knowledge has become the main factor of economic development. We need to know. Thus, universities have moved to the center of the social scene, from which it expected the formation of a high-value human capital, the generation of new knowledge and its application innovation processes that increase effectiveness of the production and services. The college level is measured by the combined indicator of the three criteria. And there are international excellence when these three activities (teaching, research and transfer) are made with such high quality that allows its inclusin in the circle of the best in the global scenario.
Spanish Program International Campus of Excellence represents a very ambitious project because it promises to promote a qualitative leap for the universities in our country. That jump would not be possible without the advances of the Higher Education Area in the last twenty years. But now it is a new model, in which the university assumes that social centrality, and stars in the coordination of an aggregate of educational agents, economical, social and institutional change to encourage a production model in its environment .
The success of this program, therefore, be of the utmost importance. It be for us to Cantabria International Campus, and it is for all Spain with all transformational projects approved in 2009 and 2010.
This shift towards excellence university is not a trnsito of the night to morning. To us has international EVALUATION horizon marked by the year 2015, and therefore we are only at the beginning of a journey that will be accelerating in each course, culminating in five years, with meeting the targets set in the strategic purposes of conversion Campus Plan International Excellence. We are trying to do, in just a five-year, what other foreign universities have been doing for decades. Is therefore needed, intensity, concentration, confidence, encouragement and collaboration. It needs, above all, continue by all in the way we have undertaken.
As far as we are concerned, in their first year of existence Cantabria International Campus has had a promising start that bodes well that we can achieve in the short run, a towering cruise speed of its execution. Today should be noted that thanks to the International Campus has generated a lot of additional resources to finance R & D performed by university teams and companies associated with its initiatives, and also to finance new infrastructure for excellence. This injection is generated economically in a recession scenario is something that speaks for itself s for the many concrete and tangible profits campus and also of its promoters, the Government of Spain , Government of Cantabria and all those involved in l.
The campus project excellence, therefore, is now most all of the faith. There is something about what one has to choose between belief or skepticism. No doubt to the works of the Great Tank MARINE Engineering, Institute of Biomedicine or the Student House, which ESTNA view of all the PCTCAN and Flames. At the scientist, we are already leading on water and energy, and are able to build an internationally leading position in this area so vital to the future of our society. And the same will be happening with modems strategic areas, which have a different calendar, but also up and serving estn stages: banking and financial markets in the hands of the founding UCEIF with Santander, biomedicine and biotechnology with the Higher Council for Scientific Research and the pharmaceutical industry, language and heritage significance in a structure of state and panhispnica; technology in the service of pioneering projects such as Smart Santander City or Smart City, one of the pillars underpinning the recognition of Santander as a city of Science and Innovation, and all our capabilities in physics and mathematics, international networks involved in top level as witness every day our Institute of Physics, its link with Chicago's Fermilab, CERN in Geneva and the European Space Agency. All this, with the added value of the diffusion that enhances the Menendez Pelayo International University.
We marked the roadmap. Now it is run, to go making the proposals into reality. From respect for the rhythms of each institution, taking into account the context of multiple upcoming elections, we express our confidence that the International Campus Cantabria out of this whole process really strengthened and its goals intact. As Rector, I ask all to maintain this unity of will, it is necessary condition for success culminating in this great transformation undertaken in a collective project region.
We are on a journey of no return. But while in Spain we have come, we are still far from the passes of the OECD in the resources put at the disposal of the Higher Education Area and the transfer of knowledge investigaciny. And in the year 2010, our progress has stalled. At this crucial time we run the risk that other countries overtake us and head to distance themselves even more. The current situation makes our society economically just before a fundamental dilemma: either to increase educational resources and scientists as a priority, a strong commitment to a new production model, or slow the convergence of knowledge and thus, the future .
An echo the words freshly delivered by U.S. President, Barack Obama, in his State of the Union, stressing the need to generate a wave of innovation to create jobs and boost the economic growth. "In a globalized economy have changed the rules, the country should spend on education, innovation infrastructure to stay competitive," he assured Obama. That is the road.
The University of Cantabria is the first to thank all institutions for their great sensitivity to these issues, and outstanding support over the years. The immediate past allows us to highlight the increased FINANCE associated with the Contract Programme Regional Government, as well as increased investment in R + D + i in our region, from 0.45% 1.10% of GDP in recent years. But the vision of the future makes us stress that our industry knowledge is not simply one more to who can play a part alcuota of the reduction of resources, our industry is the driver has chosen Cantabria of its new model of production and development, and is therefore the key to change for the rest, in the fields we have defined as strategic purposes for excellence other and are already generating new productive first.
Will maintain the means to maintain the criteria. And the test results in order of priority in investment. These words should not be interpreted as a simple demand in the face of budget public, but as an admonition the coherence of all that we have engaged in this transformation.
And it is this model that typifies International Campus promotes an even greater intensity in the participation of enterprises in the R + D + i, travs of cluster-private audience around strategic areas of the campus. And here there is much work to do. Because private ownership in all these tasks, it is essential, is an limited. In Cantabria, the business community involved in only 35% of the investment in R + D + i, half of what is desirable.
Therefore, we address not only the responsible public, but also private actors, and SPECIFIC to the business. We know that your environment is now more difficult than before, but know well their will to succeed, and we have to appeal to the entrepreneurial spirit. It is necessary to promote a culture of innovation. And in times of crisis must not slow the transformation, but speed up.
The University of Cantabria is still available to society to realize its potential. Since transparency manager. Open society to tell us qu campus governance models seem more effective international. Committed to the territory in which the roots and at the same time, committed to the projection of these capabilities throughout the world. And willing to be accountable to society. As we have done recently with the presentation of an independent report on the contribution will socioeconmica of this University, which extract only that: for every euro that society invests in the University cntabra , sta will return almost three, or that the activity of UC has led more than a fifth of the Economic Growth of Cantabria in the last ten years and supports about 6,600 jobs.
In the same line of compromise, this university has refused to camp on a commodity with no horizon, or find a structural solution Validate only for s itself. The University proposed a model of comprehensive campus in the service of regional development and made from a deep sense of social responsibility. But the most important thing is that the idea has become a target for everyone. And so, the Campus of Excellence is not a horizon for the University of Cantabria, but for the entire community.
In this course we have completed the process of implantation of the EHEA in our model of teaching. Soon we will inaugurate in PCTCAN the Great Tank. The work of transformation of the campus environment Flames to continue, including the complex of the three towers to the Student House, and I hope that very soon the work of the Colegio Mayor Juan de la Cosa. Our students certainly have their own college radio and communication center of creativity and youth. We're seeing enthusiastic responses to our calls for attraction of talent, that scientist debern create school on our campus. We have begun the path to the first official titles in Comillas. As I said at the beginning, travs of different lines of FINANCE, of all we have 130 million euros for infrastructure excellence and the creation of clusters, such as water and energy and the biomedical, which in turn generate more resources SERN. We saw our project approved Innocampus program to develop more initiatives in PCTCAN transfer. We have already started training programs in English, because this is an international campus, mandatory, a distinguishing aspect of our bid.
As then, in just one year we have launched what at the end of November 2009 was simply a document. If we can make 2015 in everyday life, we can see the great changes that have experienced Cantabria, both in its productive and in their level of employment and their future expectations. And also, of course, the University of Cantabria, for she 's all called to participate in the promotion of excellence, and not just the selected areas. There are circles that close, but that open horizons, creating opportunities for all.
In conclusion, I claim the university function in Spain. While we are happy here in headlines and comments about the lack of adaption of academic teachings to real life, a strong ms of economies of the world has been in the news these give because they want to hire j Venes qualified Spaniards. Germany does not think that our students teach us wrong: it wants to bring to integrate them into their own development. A situation in which our young people more prepared is good for Germany and not Spain is something that should make us reflect with total seriousness and urgency. We can not stand before a model of society that lacks the dynamism necessary to jump to a new level of development, denying vital opportunities to our youth. To assist in this challenge are superacin universities, committed to the development and transfer, eager to explore this new path toward a modern pasms Fornea attract talent instead of going to the emigration No one's own. We doubt not waste time and priorities.
In our community, this challenge is called opportunity superaciny Cantabria International Campus. Let everyone in l, with l, participating in and supporting a great program transformer whose success be to everyone.
To do this, short stories, as always, with the team that makes our university every day: students, teachers and researchers, staff of administraciny services, new doctors who have invested today, distinguished in the curr s academic and cultural Culum and those who today have recognized, people have earned their retirement AFTER a lifetime of service to education. In the end, always the most important thing is people. The UC is for people. And the Campus of Excellence is for people. That is precisely its great value.
Thank you very much.