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6. RESEARCHER LEADING THEIR RESEARCH AREA OR FIELD: R4

Art. 56 LOU: FULL UNIVERSITY LECTURER AND PROFESSOR

Purpose:

Independent and consolidated research, developed by a leading researcher in their field
of expertise who is part of the university educational bodies.

Characteristics:

Teaching staff belonging to both bodies will have full teaching and research capabilities.

Requirements:

A prior positive assessment of their activity for the corresponding position from the
Spanish National Quality Assessment and Accreditation Agency (ANECA).

PROMOTION

Existing budget and regulatory framework limitations have forced universities to establi-
sh specific plans to promote teaching staff to their educational bodies in recent years.
These plans had to meet the new conditions mainly defined by the restrictive replace-
ment rate, which remains in force. Therefore, in recent years, calls for positions for these
educational bodies and access to positions of Temporary PhD Lecturer have been contin-
gent upon the authorisation from relevant public administrations and also a prior accre-
ditation that the list of these public job vacancies did not impact the centre’s complian-
ce with its budget stability goals, or any other limit established in Organic Law 2/2012, of
27 April, on Budget Stability and Financial Sustainability.

The UMH, in scrupulous respect of this legal limitation, has remained equally steadfast
and active in guaranteeing our teaching staff’s rights to promotion. Our university, toge-
ther with the other universities of our Spanish and Valencian university system, will conti-
nue requesting the removal of this replacement rate at all levels. The fact that the current
General State Budget Act set this rate at 110% is nowhere near enough. Its removal is a
priority for universities, in exercising their autonomy, to plan their workforces guaran-
teeing a necessary and fair promotion of the teaching staff, as well as to remain socially
committed to teaching and research quality. In any case, while these conditioning fac-
tors are in place, the UMH will include in each of its annual public employment listings
(OEP, in Spanish) a series of positions for teaching and research staff. There is both a free
access process, and another for the internal promotion of University Professors.

The UMH's programme for the promotion and stabilisation of teachers and researchers
is therefore dramatically subjected to the mentioned legal limitations. It is structured in
two paths: one for teaching staff that belongs to one of the categories included in Orga-
nic Law 6/2001, of 21 December, on universities (A) and another for researchers recruited
following the categories included in Spanish Law 14/2011, of 1 June, on Science, Technolo-
gy and Innovation through highly competitive calls (B).

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