Strategic thinking and Plan Organization.. Strategic Plan University of Alicante

Strategic thinking and Plan Organization.

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The strategic reflection tackles the current situation in 2013 and the elements that provides to the analysis DAFO: the weaknesses, threats, fortresses and opportunities of the UA in 2013. Have to pose us a fundamental question: ¿How reach the Vision of the University of Alicante for 2019? The answer to this question turns around the Strategic Planning.

The Strategic Planning describes in detail in the strategic actions of Plan and by reason of feasibility the actions organise in Strategic Axes, although in many of the strategic actions that constitute them surfaces with strength a high level of transversalidad.

Axes in that it has organised the Plan:

1. Axis of Training

The field of this axis concentrates the Studies and the Academic Ordination. It does necessary, to provide a wide formative offer and that improve the empleabilidad of the alumnado and his labour insertion, the offer of double institutional degrees (inside the UA), that besides allow to take advantage of synergies between degrees already implanted in the UA . On the other hand, it is increasingly interesting the creation of double degrees so much national like international with universities of prestige, especially under the umbrella of European programs, as well as with other universities of other continents, that increase besides the mobility of students, profesorado and PAS and promote educational networks and of investigation between the universities.

The training of the PDI and of the PAS is definitely an indispensable tool to improve the execution of all the tasks that have entrusted the UA. On the other hand, it facilitates the personal development and professional of the profesorado and of the personnel of administration and services, jointly with the satisfaction of the same in relation with his functions to develop. It does necessary unify criteria and efforts that allow a coherent offer, sustainable and current that satisfy the needs of the two communities.

2. Axis of Investigation and Innovation

The field of this axis is the Investigation, Transfer and Innovation. Strategically the investigation is one of the big functions of the university, so much to generate knowledge as to transfer it, and convert to the investigation in the engine of the social and economic progress.

Especially it tackles a first area regarding the gestión, promotion and divulging of the investigation realised in the breast of the university, so much in his competent structures for this (groups, departments and institutes of investigation), as in the mixed units of investigation and in the scientific stations of the UA. The second big area of competition of this field is the gestión and promotion of the transfer of the knowledge through agreements with companies, that commission projects of investigation or use the services of investigation, as well as the study, gestión and promotion of the business initiatives that develop the results of the investigation realised inside the university until the creation of EBTs.

3. Axis of Communities

The university is first of all the reflection of the work and the dedication of the people that compose it. Thus, it is necessary to fix strategies to follow building and improving day in day out our university with the participation and implication of all the communities: alumnado, profesorado and personnel of administration and services.

The University of Alicante has to be a space for the knowledge, but also a space for the convivencia, by what have to develop programs and suitable strategies for the academic and professional development, but always taking into account the conditions of work and the needs of the people that constitute it, this last is the field of the axis of communities.

Recognise the path of all the members of the distinct communities so much in active like jubilados of the University of Alicante.

4. Axis of University Politics

This axis includes the distinct strategies that situate clearly of transversal form and whose field and definition go in fully in the group of University Politics:

Quality. The university has like one of his strategies the quality in all his activities and services that loans. For this does indispensable in occasions have of stamps of quality to national and international level in the lines of performance that considers adapted.
Internationalisation. The University of Alicante possesses important advantages like focus of international attraction: his infrastructures, the innovative design of the campus, together with other climatic factors and humans. Taking into account that in the international relations to university level what prime is the reciprocity, the strategic vision bases in the development of our strong points to improve and attract international agreements with universities of recognised prestige that benefit to students, PDI and PAS to global level.
Training in Tongues. Promote the training in tongues of the university community with the end to facilitate them the necessary linguistic competitions to take advantage of the opportunities and the challenges of a multilingual society, being this one of the labels that definitively pretends to obtain the UA in 2019.
Culture and Sports. They pose fundamental strategic actions oriented to promote the culture and the sport like a key element in the integral training of the alumnado. Dinamizar The creative potentialities of all the communities and contribute like this to the development and progress of the cultural and sportive fabric of our surroundings.
Technologies of the Information and the Communication. It exists the suitable technology, exists a juridical frame, exists will and, above all else, exists a need ineludible: it is the moment to develop a true politics of Open Government (Open Government) for our university. We have to ensure a modern university, transparent and manager that was an example of participatory democracy and for this the subjects of government have to be opened. This opening has to consider like political doctrine that guide his development and effective implantation through a plan of Good Government (Good Governance) and of Gobernanza (Gobernance) and, of course, putting the new technologies to the service of the people to do effective the desirable paradigm of Open Data (Open Dates). In the actuality the TIC are indispensable for the normal development of any human activity. The UA can not leave to be a referent in the use of the same, by what has to do an effort in keeping properly the sustrato technological reached, as well as explore new forms to offer our services to all the community obtaining the maximum provecho that the TIC can offer. So important results in the actuality have of a group of “services dynamic” TIC and adapted to our needs, together with an infrastructure TIC that them of support, as also attain that these services are useful, used and understood by all the university community.
Equality of women and men. In the last years, the interest of the Public Powers by the questions related with the equality of gender has experienced a remarkable growth. The University no only can not remain extraneous to this dynamics of promotion of the equity but it comes forced, by laws that concern him specifically, to promote the principle of equality in the academic field. In this context, has to underline that the University, whereas transmissive institution of values and knowledges, assumes the leadership in promoting the change of paradigm with regard to the place that occupy the women in the own institution and in the society. Advance in the effective equality between women and men happens necessarily by the incorporation of the perspective of gender in all the politics, fields of intervention and communities of the University of Alicante.
University Social responsibility. The strategic actions in cooperation, understood like University Social Responsibility (RSU), with the premise to help helping us, that is to say, putting in value the knowledge of our Institution for the Cooperation to the Development in a wide sense.
Politics of social projection. The strategy to promote the communication to consolidate the image of the University of Alicante, strengthen his strategies and turn it into a mark linked to the knowledge, to the culture and to the innovation. Improve the university like referent and garante of the wealth sociocultural of his surroundings. It is a bet decided by the consolidation of marks it University of Alicante linked to the training, the investigation, the technology and the cultural production.
Relations and Institutional Synergies. The University of Alicante has like strong point inside the Institutional Relations the leadership and the alliances with the surroundings. The current circumstances, recommend strategies oriented to improve the aggregation with other universities and institutions like a half to strengthen so much to national level like international. The different activities and actions of the integral universities around this common aim create a new stage of collaboration where the complementarity and the synergies that generate improve and offer an innovative model of work shared.
Institutional projects. The Area of Institutional Projects, under the supervision and control of the Rector, arises with the aim to unify the gestión of a group of activities and singular initiatives, so much by his past path as by his future potential, in the context of the strategic aims of the University of Alicante. It pretends , in this way, achieve a gestión and conjoint supervision of said projects, with the aim to improve his efficiency and utility, so much in the field typical of the university as in the public field in which his activity inserts , centring actions in the institutional projects

5. Axis of Means and Material Resources

Infrastructures (Campus and Environmental Sustainability). These strategic actions orient to have of suitable spaces for the efficient development and of quality of the daily activity. Promote and consolidate politics of sustainability. The main aim has to be guarantee spaces and suitable infrastructures for the educational activity and researcher of the university, without forgetting the derivative needs of other activities of interest for the university community (transfer of knowledge and divulging of the culture, sports, etc.)
Economic planning. The university needs to increase the catchment of resources to have sufficient finance with which tackle his functions, as well as manage his allocation with transparency, responsibility and with criteria of efficiency, equity and optimisation. With these aims, the Strategy in Economic Planning constitute a basic piece of the Plan.
General office. In you plough of the achievement of an open university that allow the rationalisation and optimisation of the resources, from the General Office proposes the realisation of the normative development of the Plan to implant the digital services adapted to such end, in collaboration with the Vicerrectorado of Technologies of the Information and the Management.
Management. His actions frame in the line of present administrative performance practically in all the activities of the university, the wide transversalidad strategic is characteristic consustancial to his functions.

6. Axis of Entrepreneurship

In the last years the entrepreneurship in Spain has had an exponential growth, giving place to an ecosystem that includes at present an extensive map and very diversified of actors. The upper education has a notable paper and is an area that contributes to the achievement of a greater utility of the and the graduates, a factor that given the situation macroeconomic current, is of big importance for the universities. The province of Alicante characterises by a business fabric of small and medium enterprises. Boost the entrepreneurshipis coherent with the vocation to the social surroundings of the UA and constitutes like axis of strategic of the Plan.

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