On July 1st, a meeting of the Governing Council took place in the Pazo de San Xerome of the University of Santiago de Compostela and by telematic means for remote attendees.
In attendance were Mr. Antonio López Díaz, Dean of the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, who acts as president of the CISPAC Governing Council; Ms. Pilar Bermejo Barrera, vice-rector of scientific policy of the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela; Ms. María Belén Rubio Armesto, vice-rector of research of the Universidade de Vigo; Susana L. Gonzalez, representing the Vice-reitoría de investigación da Universidade da Coruña; Dona Yolanda Lesmes Romero, Manager of the Universidade de Vigo; Lourenzo Fernández Prieto, CISPAC’s Scientific Director; Laura Oso, Deputy Directorate of the Centre and Simón Fernández, Deputy Transfer Directorate.
The main point discussed was the incorporation of new research personnel to the center. In addition to the 72 current members, 44 new researchers representing the three Galician universities have joined: 16 from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 14 from the Universidade de Vigo and 14 from the Universidade da Coruña. The Governing Council values positively this new incorporation process, which highlights the researcher’s career and prestige at international level, as well as an improvement in the gender balance at the center. This reinforces the idea of a qualitative leap in CISPAC’s configuration.
On the other hand, the Governing Council is committed through its president Antonio López, reitor of the USC, in the search for solutions to meet the main needs of the center. CISPAC has a research, training and transfer potential in the field of human and social sciences like no other within the SUG, and even beyond within the state research area, which requires a structural solution that allows it to continue to respond to the challenge of global sustainability.
Below we leave a photographic gallery of the meeting:
