Introduction

This financial report includes the following sections:

  • A five-year timeline of measures presented for six-month periods, beginning with the second half of 2011 and ending with the first half of 2016.
  • A budget for the set of measures to be carried out from the second half of 2011 until the first half of 2016.
  • The funding sources for each of these measures:
    • The government of Valencia / funding provided by the universities themselves
    • Funds provided by town and city councils, provincial councils, chambers of commerce, etc.
    • The European Union
    • The private sector
    • The Ministry of Education, through the:
      • Strengthening Sub-programme
      • Excellence Sub-programme
  • Information about the measures detailed in the document “Report on the Campus of International Excellence Conversion Project” for which funding being sought through the International Excellence Sub-programme, as well as measures that have already have other alternative sources of funding:
    • The measures and the sphere of action described in the CEI Conversion Project Report
    • Specification of the types of expenses that implementing the measures will incur The general criteria used to categorize expenses into types are the following:
      • Type 1: Personnel of any of the five universities or of the CAMPUSHABITAT5U Consortium
      • Type 2: Construction or remodelling of buildings or facilities
      • Type 3: Acquisition or improvement of equipment
      • Type 4: Includes various sub-types:
      • Annual grant proposals
      • Collaborations of teaching staff
      • Collaborations of R&D groups or university institutes
      • Contracting external professional services to perform specific activities

Description of measures

Teaching excellence:

  1. Strategic teaching plan in Habitat and Territory
    • Description: please see strand 1. Teaching excellence in area 2.1, Improving Teaching Activities and Adaptation to the EHEA (page 6)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 4: Contracting of external professional services for collaboration in production of the strategic teaching plan
  2. International student exchange and mobility
    • Description: please see strand 3. Internationalization of the teaching staff in area 2.1, Improving Teaching Activities and Adaptation to the EHEA (page 11)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 4: Annual grant proposals
  3. Leadership and personnel management programme
    • Description: please see strand 1. Teaching excellence in area 2.1, Improving Teaching Activities and Adaptation to the EHEA (page 7) 7)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 1: Own personnel for managing the programme
      • Type 3: Acquisition of equipment needed to implement the programme
      • Type 4: Collaboration of teaching staff and contracting of professionals from the business and institutional sector to teach the programme
  4. Talent programme for education and leadership
    • Description: please see strand 1. Teaching excellence in area 2.1, Improving Teaching Activities and Adaptation to the EHEA (page 7)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 4: Annual grant proposals
  5. Fostering an entrepreneurial culture
    • Description: please see strand 2. Enterprise, employability and lifelong learning in area 2.1, Improving Teaching Activities and Adaptation to the EHEA (page 8)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 3: Acquisition of equipment needed to implement the programme
      • Type 4: Collaboration of teaching staff and contracting of professionals from the business and institutional sector to carry out the activities
  6. Virtual Observatory for Employability
    • Description: please see strand 2. Enterprise, employability and lifelong learning in area 2.1, Improving Teaching Activities and Adaptation to the EHEA (page 9)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 3: Acquisition of equipment needed to implement the programme
      • Type 4: Contracting of professional services for management of the observatory
  7. Lifelong Learning Habitat Programme
    • Description: please see strand 2. Enterprise, employability and lifelong learning and strand 3. Internationalization of the teaching staff in area 2.1, Improving Teaching Activities and Adaptation to the EHEA (pages 10 and 11)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 1: Own personnel for managing the programme
      • Type 3: Acquisition of equipment needed to implement the programme
      • Type 4: Collaboration of teaching staff and contracting of professionals from the business and institutional sector to teach the programme
  8. Development of an integrated model for relationships between universities and vocational training centres
    • Description: please see strand 4. Inclusive higher education environment in area 2.1, Improving Teaching Activities and Adaptation to the EHEA (page 12)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 4: Contracting of professional services to create and implement the Integrated Model
  9. Grants Scheme for Training of Personnel for Technical Research Support (FPATI)
    • Description: please see strand 4. Inclusive higher education environment in area 2.1, Improving Teaching Activities and Adaptation to the EHEA (page 13)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 4: Annual grant proposals
  10. Unique teaching infrastructure and equipment
    • Description: please see strand 5. Adaptation to the EHEA in area 2.1, Improving Teaching Activities and Adaptation to the EHEA (page 13)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 3: Infrastructure and equipment for teaching laboratories
  11. Educational innovation and new technologies
    • Description: please see strand 5. Adaptation to the EHEA in area 2.1, Improving Teaching Activities and Adaptation to the EHEA (page 14)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 3: New technological equipment for teaching classrooms
  12. Transformation of libraries to LRRCs
    • Description: please see strand 5. Adaptation to the EHEA in area 2.1, Improving Teaching Activities and Adaptation to the EHEA (page 14)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 2: Construction of a building to house the LRRC
  13. Definition and launch of the school
    • Description: please see strand 1. The HABITAT5U International Doctoral School in area 2.2, Scientific Advancement and Transfer of Knowledge (page 8)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 1: Own personnel for managing the programme
      • Type 3: Acquisition of equipment needed to implement the programme
      • Type 4: Contracting of external professional services for collaboration in developing the Doctoral School
  14. Promoting the range of doctoral programmes with excellence endorsements
    • Description: please see strand 1. The HABITAT5U International Doctoral School in area 2.2, Scientific Advancement and Transfer of Knowledge (page 8)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 1: Own personnel for promoting, managing and supervising the doctoral programmes offered
  15. Attraction of young pre-doctoral research talent
    • Description: please see strand 1. The HABITAT5U International Doctoral School in area 2.2, Scientific Advancement and Transfer of Knowledge (page 8)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 4: Annual grant proposals
  16. Master plan for the four areas of specialization
    • Description: please see strand 2. Habitat and Territory Institute in area 2.2, Scientific Advancement and Transfer of Knowledge (page 10)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 4: External contracting for the drafting of the master plan
  17. Calls for proposals for R&D projects in collaboration with CAMPUSHABITAT5U
    • Description: please see strand 2. Habitat and Territory Institute in area 2.2, Scientific Advancement and Transfer of Knowledge (page 10)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 4: Annual grant proposals
  18. Common university space – technology centres – the business community
    • Description: please see strand 2. Habitat and Territory Institute area 2.2, Scientific Advancement and Transfer of Knowledge (page 11) 11)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 4: Annual submission of proposals to promote mobility within these three areas
  19. The R&D Assessment and Marketing Unit
    • Description: please see strand 2. Habitat and Territory Institute in area 2.2, Scientific Advancement and Transfer of Knowledge (page 12)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 1: Own personnel for managing the unit
      • Type 3: Acquisition of equipment needed to implement the programme
      • Type 4: Contracting of external, expert professional services for consultation in assessment, protection and marketing
  20. The Centre for Advanced Habitat and Territory Studies
    • Description: please see strand 4. Advanced Studies Centre in Habitat and Territory in area 2.2, Scientific Advancement and Transfer of Knowledge (page 15)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 4: Contracting of teaching staff such as interim lecturers during the period when the teaching are research personnel are at the centre
  21. The Landscape and Territory Observatory
    • Description: please see strand 2. Habitat and Territory Institute in area 2.2, Scientific Advancement and Transfer of Knowledge (page 13)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 1: Own personnel for managing the observatory
      • Type 3: Acquisition of equipment needed for the activities to be performed
      • Type 4: Contracting of professional services for specific activities to be performed
  22. Submission of proposals for R&D projects in collaboration with foreign universities
    • Description: please see strand 2. Habitat and Territory Institute in area 2.2, Scientific Advancement and Transfer of Knowledge and area 2.6, Internationalization Policies
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 4: Annual grant proposals to promote collaborative R&D projects
  23. Attraction of postdoctoral research talent
    • Description: please see strand 2. Habitat and Territory Institute area 2.2, Scientific Advancement and Transfer of Knowledge (page 11) and area 2.6, Internationalization Policies (page 6)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 4: Annual grant proposals
  24. Cooperation in development
    • Description: please see area 2.6, Internationalization Policies (page 7)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 4: Annual grant proposals to promote cooperative development of projects
  25. Strategy of alliances and international networks
    • Description: please see area 2.8, Networks and Alliances
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 4: Annual proposals for the development R&D&i projects through measures promoted by CAMPUSHABITAT5U networks and alliances
  26. The CAMPUSHABITAT5U Endowment
    • Description: please see Attraction and promotion of talent in area 2.6, Internationalization Policies (page 7)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 1: Internationally renowned research personnel
        This involves funding derived from income from contributions made mainly by the private sector, for attracting renowned international research talent
  27. Virtual international reception and service office
    • Description: please see Attraction and promotion of talent in area 2.6, Internationalization Policies (page 7)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 1: Own personnel for office management
      • Type 3: Acquisition of equipment needed for creating the office
  28. Construction of a university residence at the Elche campus
    • Description: please see strand 4. Promoting quality environments in area 2.3, Transformation of the Campus towards a Socially Integrated Model and Interaction with its Local Environment (page 15)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 2: Construction of the student residence hall
  29. A website aimed at an international audience
    • Description: please see the section on International visibility and scope in area 2.6, Internationalization Policies (page 5)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 4: Contracting of professional services for creation and management of the website
  30. Showroom at national and international trade fairs
    • Description: please see the section on International visibility and scope in area 2.6, Internationalization Policies (page 6) 6)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 3: Creation of the trade fair showroom
      • Type 4: Contracting of professional services for presentation of CAMPUSHABITAT5U at national and international trade fairs
  31. Organization of international events
    • Description: please see the section on International visibility and scope in area 2.6, Internationalization Policies (page 5)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 1: Own personnel to organize international events
      • Type 4: Travel and lodging expenses required by the speakers
  32. CAMPUSHABITAT5U Internet TV
    • Description: please see strand 4. Promoting quality environments in area 2.3, Transformation of the Campus towards a Socially Integrated Model and Interaction with its Local Environment (page 15)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 3: Acquisition of equipment needed for starting up the CAMPUSHABITAT5U Internet Protocol TV (IPTV)
  33. CreaInCube
    • Description: please see strand 3. CreaInCube in area 2.2, Scientific Advancement and Transfer of Knowledge (page 14)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 3: Acquisition of equipment needed for adaptation of the multidisciplinary CreaInCube space
      • Type 4: Contracting of professional services for the creation and management of actions that advance the CreaInCube Multidisciplinary Space, through Creative Wecoffees, workshops and creative coaching, which generate growth strategies through a new driver of prosperity: CREATIVITY
  34. Habitat5U Exploratorium
    • Description: please see strand 2, Art as an interdisciplinary platform, in area 2.3, Transformation of the Campus towards a Socially Integrated Model and Interaction with its Local Environment (page 12)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 3: Acquisition of the equipment needed for creating a flexible space that promotes interdisciplinary collaborative work at the intersection of Art-Science-Technology (ACT)
      • Type 4: Contracting of professional services for promoting interdisciplinary collaborative work at the intersection of Art-Science-Technology (ACT)
  35. Cultural Programme Coordination and Exchange Network
    • Description: please see strand 2, Art as an interdisciplinary platform, in area 2.3, Transformation of the Campus towards a Socially Integrated Model and Interaction with its Local Environment (page 13)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 1: Own personnel for office management
  36. Sustainable laboratories at CAMPUSHABITAT5U
    • Description: please see strand 3, Innovative and accessible infrastructure, in area 2.3, Transformation of the Campus towards a Socially Integrated Model and Interaction with its Local Environment (page 13)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 3: Acquisition of equipment needed for developing, equipping, and improving the CAMPUSHABITAT5U laboratories
  37. Rehabilitation and adaptation of CAMPUSHABITAT5U environments
    • Description: please see strand 3, Innovative and accessible infrastructure, in area 2.3, Transformation of the Campus towards a Socially Integrated Model and Interaction with its Local Environment (page 13)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 2: Adaptation of buildings, equipment and infrastructure
  38. Mobile signs and orientation system at CAMPUSHABITAT5U
    • Description: please see strand 3, Innovative and accessible infrastructure, in area 2.3, Transformation of the Campus towards a Socially Integrated Model and Interaction with its Local Environment (page 14)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 3: Acquisition of the equipment needed for the campus to assist the elderly or persons with visual disabilities, mental disorders or Asperger’s syndrome
  39. Certification of the EMAS Environmental Management System
    • Description: please see strand 3, Innovative and accessible infrastructure, in area 2.3, Transformation of the Campus towards a Socially Integrated Model and Interaction with its Local Environment (page 14)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 1: Own personnel dedicated exclusively to improvement and adaptation in order to obtain certification
  40. Sustainable and healthy campus
    • Description: please see strand 3, Innovative and accessible infrastructure, in area 2.3, Transformation of the Campus towards a Socially Integrated Model and Interaction with its Local Environment (page 14)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 1: Own personnel with the objective of defining and managing an internal policy for contributing to sustainability, for all of the areas involved in the university activities of the campus
      • Type 3: Acquisition, adaptation and upgrading of the equipment needed for creating a Sustainable and Healthy Campus for the CV as a whole
  41. Inter-University Platform on Equality:
    • Description: please see strand 4. Promoting quality environments in area 2.3, Transformation of the Campus towards a Socially Integrated Model and Interaction with its Local Environment (page 15)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 1: Own personnel, with the objective of developing intersecting activities that promote equality in the university administrations included in the campus
  42. Sports-Health Programme
    • Description: please see strand 4, Promoting quality environments in area 2.3, Transformation of the Campus towards a Socially Integrated Model and Interaction with its Local Environment (page 15)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 1: Own personnel, dedicated to promoting and developing a joint schedule of sporting activities for targeted groups
      • Type 3: Acquisition of equipment needed to carry out the programme’s activities
  43. Habitat Observatory
    • Description: please see the section on Universities as agents of economic and social revitalization in area 2.7, Participation in a Sustainable Economic Model (page 4) 4)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 3: Acquisition of equipment needed to carry out the observatory’s activities
      • Type 4: Contracting of R&D groups or professional services for development of the observatory’s projects and activities
  44. Business-sponsored chair programme
    • Description: please see the section on Synergies between the SUPV and the productive sector in area 2.7, Participation in a Sustainable Economic Model (page 4)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 4: Contracting of R&D groups or professional services for development of the programme’s projects and activities This involves funding derived from the contributions made primarily by the private sector
  45. Urban regeneration programme
    • Description: please see the section on CAMPUSHABITAT5U: A driver of urban and rural regeneration in area 2.7, Participation in a Sustainable Economic Model (page 6)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 4: Contracting of R&D groups or professional services for development of urban regeneration projects and activities
  46. Rural regeneration programme
    • Description: please see the section on CAMPUSHABITAT5U: A driver of urban and rural regeneration in area 2.7, Participation in a Sustainable Economic Model (page 7)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 4: Contracting of R&D groups or professional services for development of rural regeneration projects and activities
  47. Creation of the CAMPUSHABITAT5U Consortium
    • Description: please see the section on Governance in area 2.5, Alliances (page 18)
    • Type of expense:
      • Type 1: Own personnel for direction and management of the CAMPUSHABITAT5U Consortium
      • Type 3: Acquisition of equipment needed to carry out the consortium’s management tasks
      • Type 4: Contracting of professional services for:
        • Definition of the consortium’s objectives, areas and activities
        • Definition of the consortium’s by-laws and constitution
        • Performance of the activities defined in the CEI Conversion Plan