Thank you all. As Ángeles said, I am Pilar Gomí, and as the current director of UNIDIS, I am the
person in charge of the student vice-rectorate for the coordination at our university of the Package 3,
whose purpose is to expand the participation of underrepresented
groups in higher education and permanent learning,
understanding how underrepresented groups are women in science, students from rural
and/or depopulated areas, people with disabilities, and migrants and refugees.
The package is divided into the following tasks and sub-tasks.
The first, called the OpenEU Inclusive Gender Equality Plan, aims to design
and implement an equality plan at all the universities of the Alliance.
For this, each institution is making a brief report on
how gender inclusion has been addressed at its university,
with information on the strategies developed, the actions
to be followed, and the evaluation of these strategies.
Once this is done, it will be designed in workshops and other activities, and the
information will be put together to generate a global plan for the entire Alliance.
In addition, a kit of available and adaptable tools
will be developed for the needs of each institution,
so that the implementation, given the characteristics and
singularities of each university participating, is viable.
This is basically the content of the sub-tasks 1
and 2, which make up the first task of the package.
The second, Variant, aims to expand access and
success actions for the groups previously indicated.
This is made up of three tasks.
The design of an interactive sheet of access and resources for success,
including access guides with information, with
validations, how to access them with previous studies, etc.
In close collaboration, and this is significant
both with civil society entities and NGOs,
to make proposals that are true for these
groups that also present singularities.
On the other hand, the second sub-task will be aimed
at online training of students from these four groups
through a micro-credential on digital competencies
with the prediction of a feedback model.
A survey will be conducted to students of the micro-credential
to improve the course after this first implementation.
The third point would be the generation of a campaign
of the OpenIU model in collaboration with the package 8
to raise awareness of the importance of
higher education aimed at these four groups.
And finally, there is the fourth sub-task, which is a mentoring
programme, OpenIU, aimed at the four indicated groups.
If in the rest of the tasks and sub-tasks we
contribute as support to the university that leads it,
in this task that I have just indicated, the
mentoring programme, we directly lead it as a group,
and the leading figure, in a way, is Miguel Bernabé,
who is with us today, the director of the COIE.
Finally, the last task of the package will be the
training in IG, in gender equality and inclusion,
for the staff of the OpenIU, with three sub-tasks.
The creation of a guide in gender equality, intersectional
inclusivity at the level of the whole Alliance,
the design of a tool for online self-assessment and
the training for the staff of the Alliance in equality.
The general managers of the package 3 are the IELENIC
and OpenUniversity, the leader is Akiles Kamea
and the co-leader is Berta Trull, from the University of Lithuania,
which Laura has mentioned before, and I don't dare to repeat it.
And they also have a leadership role in practically all the different
sub-tasks, except for the 311, which are summarised in equality,
which in this case is led by the UOC, and the
334, which, as we have said, is led by Miguel.
If we talk about times, during this first year we are
already with the 311 sub-task, which, as I have mentioned,
is a summary of our plan of equality,
where it has its own plan of equality,
and that summary of those strategies is delivered tomorrow,
with the interactive resource map and the micro-credential,
which will begin to take shape in approximately a month.
After the summer, we will start working on the
OpenU model campaign, which, when I say "work",
I mean, as we are indicating, giving support
to the needs of the university that leads it.
And what is already beginning, it will start to take shape, if all goes well,
before the summer, and if it depends directly on the UNEDES, the mentoring.
Miguel, in time and shape, has already delivered a template
with the planning of the design of these sub-tasks.
And, shortly, he will tell us, from all the members of the team,
how to help him and what steps to take to materialize the proposal.
Finally, and not to go on in time, I told you yesterday that
it lasted five minutes and I do not plan to spend one more.
I will tell you the most important thing, and that is how
our team is currently formed, a team that is still open,
and that not only has Miguel Bernabe, director of the COIE, professor of
the Faculty of Psychology and entrepreneurship expert, among other things,
but also with Ana Isabel Zamorano Rueda, fellow of Philology
and coordinator of the Master in Gender Studies at UNEDES,
with Patricia Nieto Rojas, from the Faculty of Law, who,
among many other things, is a specialist in equality policies,
Ana, the head of the Faculty of Psychology,
specialist in psychology and entrepreneurship,
and who will help us to analyze the situation of these equality plans,
and will help us especially in the evaluation of
the possible future equality plans of the Alliance,
Beatriz Pérez Cabello de Alba, also from the
Faculty of Philology, specialist in linguistics.
Here it is important because it will provide a scrupulous and technical
domain of English that will serve the team to unify knowledge,
and also because in inclusive language, being scrupulous
with the acceptance of terms is quite significant.
Also for equality issues and more vulnerable groups, we have Consuelo
del Bar, director of the Equality Chair and Agenda 2030 at UNEDES,
expert in methods and techniques of social research,
and with the participation of María Ruiz Paz, from UNEDES and, among
other things, director of the Equality Office, who also accompanies us.
Of course, a fundamental pillar is Tiberio
Feliz, who, as Ángeles explained before,
was the previous director of UNIDIS, professor at the
Faculty of Education, expert in pedagogy and disability,
and also contributed significantly to the design of this package.
His contribution is fundamental for all of us who make up the package,
and also, for me, in a particular way, it is an added value.
We also have Jesús Pérez Viejo, who is a professor at
the Faculty of Law, a psychologist and social worker,
and has participated in the management and
development of vulnerable groups projects,
with a long history in the studies of some of the
underrepresented groups that are part of this package.
And finally, I am, as I said, current director of UNIDIS, professor
at the Faculty, like Emilio, of Political Sciences and Sociology,
a graduate in Adiperiodism and a doctor in Sociology, with
focused work in both communication and vulnerable groups,
especially women with disabilities, and also groups of
people in detention or minors with incarcerated parents.
In short, we intend to be, I don't know if a
solving team, I say this for my colleagues,
but yes, a team that has accepted to participate from the
beginning with enthusiasm and a lot of predisposition to work.
We have been delivering the tasks on time and without any problem so far,
and the truth is that it is a pleasure to be
able to take responsibility for some of them,
and that everything is flowing in the way it is flowing.
And I think they will participate, we will participate and defend the
participation of UNED in the UNHCR in a more than
satisfactory way, because we are convinced of the
importance and magnitude of this alliance.
Well, this is basically the package 3. Thank you very much to all.
Thank you very much, Pilar.
I want to thank you, the Office of Equality,
to all, to Agustín, to all the vice-rectors,
to all of you who have been involved in this
and who are doing it with such rigor and also
fulfilling the tasks very well, as you have said,
so we are all enormously grateful at the vice-rectorate,
and I also know that I speak on behalf of the rector from
the bottom of my heart for all the good work you are doing.