Public Employment: 78 teaching positions approved at ULPGC

The Governing Council of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) approved this Friday the call for **78 teaching positions to promote their advancement and stabilization.** Of these, **38** positions correspond to university **professors** and **36 to the internal promotion of full professors**, to which are added another **4** for full professors linked to the Canary Islands **Health** Service. "These 78 positions represent a **very significant financial commitment** for the ULPGC in a particularly difficult budgetary scenario, which reflects the university's commitment to the advancement and stabilization of its faculty," explained the Vice-Rector for Faculty, Planning, and Academic Organization, Belén López, in a statement. The Governing Council also unanimously approved the proposal for the **ULPGC Medal, posthumously, to Professor Rafael Montenegro**, requested by the University Institute of Intelligent Systems and Numerical Applications in Engineering (SIANI), of which he was one of its main promoters and director of one of its scientific divisions. Professor Rafael Montenegro, a full professor of Applied Mathematics at the ULPGC, passed away on June 25, 2025, at the age of 67. He worked for 40 years at the university as a teacher, researcher, and administrator, leaving significant contributions to the study of environmental processes, publishing over 200 scientific papers, and participating in international committees and conferences. The Governing Council has decided to join the **University Humanitarian Corridor**, an initiative promoted by several universities and academic institutions whose objective is to facilitate the reception of students trapped in contexts of armed conflict or humanitarian crisis. This initiative foresees an initial funding of 39,600 euros and is intended to be launched next academic year as a pilot project, along with a dozen Spanish public universities, with the ULPGC receiving six students. The Governing Council also approved administrative and management changes in several ULPGC degrees and an **update to the teaching plan for the Bachelor's Degree in Hispanic Philology.** In addition, the rector, Lluís Serra, informed the Governing Council about several issues, such as studying staggered schedules on campuses to reduce traffic, the recent trip to Agadir to strengthen collaboration with Ib Zohr University and promote scientific projects, and the challenges for 2026. These include planning multi-year funding, increasing residence places for students, reforming university statutes, and modernizing ULPGC administration with a new job classification.