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The UPV is a public, dynamic, and innovative institution that is dedicated to researching and teaching. The UPV maintains strong bonds with its social environment and a strong presence abroad. Our vocation as a service results from our commitment to society. We provide our students with the knowledge they need to work as graduates in their professional field. We offer them an all-round education where they acquire technological skills and humanistic and cultural education. We train people, and we train professionals because we believe we must give our students knowledge and experience. By so doing, we believe that we are helping them become free, responsible people aware of social problems, are capable of taking on commitments and have prospects for the future. The teaching and administrative staff engaged by the UPV work to offer our students the high-quality education they need. The Rector is the highest academic authority at the University. As such, he represents the UPV in all sorts of official acts and transactions. He is responsible for the University's government and management, develops the lines of action previously approved by the collegiate bodies, and carries out their agreements. The Rector is also responsible for all competencies not expressly conferred on other government bodies. Universities are called to play a fundamental role in this "knowledge-intensive society" in which we are immersed. A more dynamic society than ever before, where the capacity to adapt becomes more and more necessary. To adapt successfully, it seems essential that what is needed is a mediated and tiered reorientation of our capabilities towards the necessities of tomorrow. The Universitat Politècnica de València is an institution with the capacity to take the lead in these changes and the meeting of the demands which face us, characteristics which underline its excellent value but which also mean the adoption of specific organizational and functional processes, all of which justified the need to draw up a new Strategic Plan, as a tool for the management of the institution, the definition of lines of action, and to support decision-making. Planning guarantees flexibility in the face of change, a guarantee of coherent evolution, both for our internal operations and equally to ask society what we consider fair for the University. If we are to request the role coherently the University deserves to play and the treatment it must receive, it requires that each of its members puts in the day-to-day effort to do an excellent job to the best of our abilities. The 2015-2020 Strategic Plan was drawn up in two phases: firstly, the mission, vision, and shared values of the university community, which must characterize our institution, were specified secondly, a strategy concerning the basis of the challenges and projects was defined, duly accompanied by the deadlines and timescales and by a framework of responsibility and indicators connected to its accomplishment, all of this to ensure that it is in line with the corresponding annual budget. It is conceived with a philosophy of continual review. It is a dynamic document which will be revised each year and which specifies the schedule of activities for each year, given that both the institution and the society it serves are immersed in a permanent process of change, which will no doubt alter the current circumstances in which the Plan was developed. The Universitat Politècnica de València educates people in order to enhance their skills researches and generates knowledge, with the assurance of quality, rigor, and ethics, in the fields of science, technology, art, and business, to further the integral development of society and contribute to its technical, economic and cultural progress. View full university