That's one of the things that, in these first
moments, it's necessary to start forming teams.
I'm very grateful for that, and it's the enthusiasm.
I was also very enthusiastic with Agustín
when he said "Yes, we have to get involved".
And with Pilar, the same.
Inés, we've been working with the people
you've been calling at the door and saying yes.
And that's also a call that will need to be called to
many more people who are interested in these issues.
The next two packages are related to digital
education from the point of view of research,
although Erasmus doesn't develop specific research, it's
not a research project, it's a structural reform project,
but it does have the consideration of what research
is being done in digital educational innovation.
And Inés will talk about the training part later.
The background of all these universities in moving
forward in what digital education means, open and remote.
Very briefly, in the case of what has to do with
joint research in terms of digital innovation,
there are three different areas, and those areas will be connected later,
but they will need slightly different profiles in many cases.
The first big task is to generate a European
research cluster on digital education.
And the first thing is to explore what
universities and stakeholders are interested in,
because the key point is the sustainable development
objectives, which the Alliance can respond to.
And it can respond through digital education and, as they call it,
prototypes that have been developed that can
allow our community of students and researchers
to move forward in proposals that have the objective
of responding to sustainable development objectives.
And we have Emilio Luque, who is the Vice-Rector of
the Joint Committee on Sustainability and Agenda 2030,
and María José Bautista Cerro, who is
also the director of the UNESCO Cathedral,
which is linked to environmental education and sustainable development.
We are starting at the beginning, and the beginning
is that we have to organise some workshops,
some brief seminars, in this case within each country,
but with an open invitation to representatives of
institutions, of course, students, researchers.
And of course, and there is a question about the role of
the associated centres, our network of associated centres,
and the whole network of experts in the country,
who are located in the territory, who can analyse very well the
needs in relation to those objectives of sustainable development,
which we can respond to with digital education.
That is what is being worked on right now with our co-leaders.
In this case, it is the Dutch one, the Dutch university
that leads this work package with Petr Korshaw,
and also the Greek one, which co-leads the next
line of action that I am going to comment on.
But here, as you can see, what is going
to be developed is first that contact,
then looking for innovation actions that are being carried
out with research and innovation on digital
issues, to respond to these problems.
Then, some projects can be financed, and so on.
This is going to be advanced, but this is to be seen in 48 months.
The second very important part within the
Alliance is our doctoral students community.
We are one of the universities in the Alliance
that has a more powerful doctoral structure.
We have the International Doctoral School, and
there we have Ángel de Juana, its director,
who is also collaborating precisely because the doctoral
community is going to be important and will have its role.
What do we want to do with our doctoral students?
Well, the first thing that is already being worked
on is how we can give them a transversal training
in digital competences and transferable
and transversal competences on research.
The first thing has been to collect what the university
is doing and what each university is doing at the moment,
so that we can then transform it into a
pool of 10 courses, a maximum of 2 FTSs,
that can be offered to our doctoral students.
I also want to highlight the role that the library
has been playing for years in the training,
in these transversal competences of our students,
and that they have already been knocked
on the door to say what they can do,
because they are the first ones who can
probably have that training pool prepared.
But there are many other questions that can be offered.
We will talk about doctoral studies.
What is planned is that two students each
year from each university can take a course,
in this case, a face-to-face course, at another university.
Summer and winter schools on topics
that are of interest to our researchers.
And one of the areas that the library is
also working on is open science, for example.
But there are many other topics in
which doctoral students can participate,
of course, the teaching teams, researchers,
we go back to the word "stakeholders", etc.
The UNE has a very broad infrastructure to offer
summer courses, extension courses or winter courses,
in this case international courses, and therefore hybrid courses.
So the idea is that we can offer them
face-to-face and, of course, in connection.
And there is another very important part that we will recently count on,
with the participation of Xavier Collier, also from
the Faculty of Political and Sociology Sciences,
a professor with extensive international experience and especially
interested in developing international doctoral programmes.
This will not be immediate, in the sense that we are
already going to offer international doctoral programmes,
but the working group that will be developing the foundations
to be able to have joint doctoral programmes in the areas,
and to be able to be multidisciplinary in the Alliance,
which has to do with the challenges of the Alliance.
And finally, another part that is connected, but
that I would have other people responsible for,
which is the Open Science Plan and the Innovation of the Alliance.
Betting on open science is another of the lines, of course,
of the European Commission and in general, at a global level.
Again, here in our library, with its director,
Isabel Calzas, with Beatriz Tejada as its director,
with Andrés Santiago, who is also here. They are already
working, and they have also asked for another Erasmus project
that can reinforce this line of work within the
Alliance, with other universities of the Alliance,
on all these issues that open science entails.
And in September, I think, they also organised, in
collaboration with the Unesco Distant Education Cathedral,
with the School of Doctoral Studies, an
international conference on open science.
And in addition to the library, we have a
great expert on this subject, Pilar Rico,
who, apart from being our associate professor, she
leads the whole open science part of the FECID,
and who is also willing to review all the documentation
that is being generated, training issues, etc.
We are starting to generate this Open
Science Plan, where the library, for example,
has already sent all the information on
how we are developing it at the UNED.