The UB approves a 501.8-million-euro budget for 2024
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- The Board of Trustees of the institution has approved the budget, in line with the government plan and the commitment to excellence in research and teaching and improvements in staffing.
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07/03/2024
Today, the Board of Trustees of the University of Barcelona ratified the institution's budget for 2024, which stands at 501.8 million euros, 3.3% more than the previous year. This is the first budget approved under the Organic Law of the University System and incorporates the extraordinary allocation for staff expenditure approved by the Government of Catalonia for the shock plan for technical, management and administration and services staff (PTGAS), and €1.4 million for PTGAS, and €5.7 million for PDI. This budget has been made in line with the current government plan and should guarantee the proper functioning of the University's centres, units and services, despite the clearly inflationary scenario.
News
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Institutional
07/03/2024
Today, the Board of Trustees of the University of Barcelona ratified the institution's budget for 2024, which stands at 501.8 million euros, 3.3% more than the previous year. This is the first budget approved under the Organic Law of the University System and incorporates the extraordinary allocation for staff expenditure approved by the Government of Catalonia for the shock plan for technical, management and administration and services staff (PTGAS), and €1.4 million for PTGAS, and €5.7 million for PDI. This budget has been made in line with the current government plan and should guarantee the proper functioning of the University's centres, units and services, despite the clearly inflationary scenario.
Pending approval of the budgets of the Government of Catalonia and the Government of Spain, the budget has been drawn up considering the transfers received in 2023, and a University Investment Plan (PIU) of 14.6 million euros has been planned to meet investment needs in buildings and ICT investments. Another of the highlights of this year's budget is the forecast to maintain the income from the Programme for the Promotion of Research (PROFOR/IURE) of the Government of Catalonia. The commitment to greater competitiveness that has been applied recently in the field of research has enabled a better provision to be made for research income.
In compliance with the governance plan, the budget allocates €11.1M to policies, which reflect the main actions of the governance plan. Of particular note is the provision of €4.2m for research promotion actions (€1.7m for research programme contracts for faculties and institutes, €150,000 for observatories and documentation centres, €320,000 in grants for the promotion of research in deficit areas, €320,000 in grants for the promotion of research in deficit areas, and €350,000 in grants for the promotion of research in deficit areas), 171,000 in research dissemination actions), €2.5M for the new call for UB predocs and consolidation of the fourth year of all UB predocs, €700,000 in actions to foster transfer and innovation, €564,000 in actions to promote internationalisation, €832,000 in actions of the Vice-Rector's Office for Students and Participation (mainly grants for students and lines of aid), and €3.2M in actions of the Vice-Rector's Office for Academic Affairs and Participation (mainly grants for students).832,000 in actions of the Office of the Vice-Rector for Students and Participation (mainly grants for students). In the academic sphere, €3.2M (€2.4M for the funding of centres and 161 for the academic-teaching programme and €350,000 for the programme for the renovation of teaching spaces).
In the area of people, progress is made in actions in the teaching field and in the search for excellence, through the stabilisation and promotion of staff, in the recruitment of talent and in the deployment of the PTGAS shock plan. As for the student body, the budget is focused on improving student care through new technologies and artificial intelligence, in addition to the consolidation of the aid already established and the consolidation of the emotional wellbeing and psychological care services for the community. This budget has been designed on the basis of sustainability and equality in the different aspects that affect the university community and always with a view to maintaining the UB's leadership as an indisputable point of reference in Catalonia and Europe.
Figures
Funding from the Government of Catalonia amounts to 329.9 million euros, accounting for 65.7% of the University of Barcelona's income. The rest of the UB's income, 34.3%, comes from academic income, which amounts to 70.8 million euros, research income (8.6 million euros), extraordinary income (15.9 million euros), other UB-specific income (19.7 million euros) and other finalist income (56.7 million euros). In own income, the incorporation of the third instalment of €7.5m from the collection of the sale of the Sant Jordi Hall of Residence building is noteworthy.
On the expenditure side, 64.4 per cent of the budget comes from staff costs, 323 million euros. The remaining 35.6% comes from operating expenditure, 43.06 million euros; maintenance and captive expenditure, 39.9 million euros; policy, 11.1 million euros; and investments, 18.9 million euros, among others.
In compliance with the governance plan, the budget allocates €11.1M to policies, which reflect the main actions of the governance plan. Of particular note is the provision of €4.2m for research promotion actions (€1.7m for research programme contracts for faculties and institutes, €150,000 for observatories and documentation centres, €320,000 in grants for the promotion of research in deficit areas, €320,000 in grants for the promotion of research in deficit areas, and €350,000 in grants for the promotion of research in deficit areas), 171,000 in research dissemination actions), €2.5M for the new call for UB predocs and consolidation of the fourth year of all UB predocs, €700,000 in actions to foster transfer and innovation, €564,000 in actions to promote internationalisation, €832,000 in actions of the Vice-Rector's Office for Students and Participation (mainly grants for students and lines of aid), and €3.2M in actions of the Vice-Rector's Office for Academic Affairs and Participation (mainly grants for students).832,000 in actions of the Office of the Vice-Rector for Students and Participation (mainly grants for students). In the academic sphere, €3.2M (€2.4M for the funding of centres and 161 for the academic-teaching programme and €350,000 for the programme for the renovation of teaching spaces).
In the area of people, progress is made in actions in the teaching field and in the search for excellence, through the stabilisation and promotion of staff, in the recruitment of talent and in the deployment of the PTGAS shock plan. As for the student body, the budget is focused on improving student care through new technologies and artificial intelligence, in addition to the consolidation of the aid already established and the consolidation of the emotional wellbeing and psychological care services for the community. This budget has been designed on the basis of sustainability and equality in the different aspects that affect the university community and always with a view to maintaining the UB's leadership as an indisputable point of reference in Catalonia and Europe.
Figures
Funding from the Government of Catalonia amounts to 329.9 million euros, accounting for 65.7% of the University of Barcelona's income. The rest of the UB's income, 34.3%, comes from academic income, which amounts to 70.8 million euros, research income (8.6 million euros), extraordinary income (15.9 million euros), other UB-specific income (19.7 million euros) and other finalist income (56.7 million euros). In own income, the incorporation of the third instalment of €7.5m from the collection of the sale of the Sant Jordi Hall of Residence building is noteworthy.
On the expenditure side, 64.4 per cent of the budget comes from staff costs, 323 million euros. The remaining 35.6% comes from operating expenditure, 43.06 million euros; maintenance and captive expenditure, 39.9 million euros; policy, 11.1 million euros; and investments, 18.9 million euros, among others.
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