- The new Ribera-Povisa Chair in Innovation and Health will create an academicprofessional development programme that will help the School’s teachers to obtain a doctoral degree through their incorporation into UVigo’s doctoral programmes.
- In the case of the secondment agreement, it is a renewal of the existing one, signed in June 1991, due to the change of ownership of Povisa once it was acquired by the Ribera Salud Group, and its adaptation to the new laws.
The University of Vigo and the Ribera health group have just signed two collaboration agreements to renew and promote the already close collaboration between the two entities. These are the renewal of the agreement for the affiliation of the Ribera-Povisa University School of Nursing to the University and the creation of a Chair in Innovation and Health.
The agreements will be presented institutionally in the near future, but both entities anticipate that it is a “strategic” collaboration that will allow the implementation of multiple joint initiatives, both in the field of teaching and research.
In the case of the secondment agreement, it is a renewal of the existing one, signed in June 1991, due to the change of ownership of Povisa once it was acquired by the Ribera Salud Group, and its adaptation to the new laws. In this line, the vice-rector of Degrees and Teaching Innovation, Alfonso Lago, emphasises that the renewed document establishes the access procedure for the staff of the University School of Nursing Ribera-Povisa to the different training programmes that are taught at the University of Vigo, “among them, the courses for new lecturers, compulsory for the new figures of assistant lecturer doctor”. It also includes support and collaboration for the development of the research activity of the school’s teaching staff, “which will allow the integration of these teachers in UVigo’s research groups and in collaborative research projects between both entities in accordance with current legislation”, emphasises the vice-rector.
“The work of the CPR de FP Povisa and EU de Enfermería Ribera-Povisa, our study centre in Vigo, has enabled us to offer top quality training since 1991, both to nursing professionals and to senior technicians, and it shows us the path to follow in the future. At the Ribera Group, we are firmly committed to teaching and training.
This agreement opens up new academic and employment opportunities for our professionals. As an added value, we are creating new synergies with the University of Vigo, a basic pillar in the progress of society’s well-being,” explains Elisa Tarazona, CEO of the Ribera Group.
Joint research and innovation projects
The new Ribera-Povisa Chair in Innovation and Health will bring with it the creation of an academic-professional development programme which, among other things, will help the School’s teaching staff to obtain doctoral degrees through their incorporation into UVigo’s doctoral programmes. At the same time, it will also seek to develop programmes and activities aimed at promoting knowledge and the use of new techniques and tools to provide students and professionals of the Ribera-Povisa University School of Nursing with cuttingedge resources.
In addition, the Ribera-Povisa Chair is also expected to host possible innovation projects and lines of research in the healthcare field related to the different doctoral programmes.
“Precisely, one of the main objectives of the chair is that in the future nursing teachers will obtain the title of doctor and, therefore, be able to participate in all the University’s research activities, join existing groups or create new ones, benefit from research, mobility and doctoral grants, etc.”, explains the vice-rector for Research, Transfer and Innovation, Belén Rubio, who adds that this chair will initiate some project actions, mobility, etc. to achieve this objective “as soon as possible”.
“In healthcare, continuous training and research are essential, and with the Ribera-Povisa chair, study opportunities increase, and the potential to advance and improve healthcare is expanded,” concludes Elisa Tarazona.
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