The Ministry of University, Research, and Innovation has announced that the Andalusian Regional Government is currently finalizing the regulations that will govern the 2025 call for regional supplements for university teachers and researchers (PDI). This information was conveyed to the General Negotiation Board of Public Universities, where they also discussed the extraordinary funding agreement for 2025.
The General Board meeting was attended by the rectors of public academic institutions and representatives of CCOO, UGT, and CSIF. This body serves as the framework for relations between the regional government, universities, and the most representative trade unions of Teaching and Research Staff (PDI) and Administrative and Services Staff (PAS).
The regional supplements are an additional economic remuneration for this university staff, linked to their activities in teaching, R&D, knowledge transfer and exchange, innovation, and management. The Ministry of University, along with university and union representatives, began work on this new call earlier this year to gather input from all parties to enhance it.
On another note, the Secretary General of Universities, Ramón Herrera, provided details on the extraordinary funding agreement for 2025 signed in March between the Regional Government and the rectors of Andalusian public universities, amounting to around 21 million, equivalent to the cost of implementing the agreements reached in terms of personnel in the General Negotiation Board of Andalusian Public Universities, held in June 2024. At that meeting, support was given for the payment of both the regional supplements for Teaching and Research Staff and the commitments made to Technical Management and Administrative Services Staff (PTGAS).
The Ministry of University emphasized that this new agreement «provides certainty to the university system and is another example of the commitment of the Government of Juanma Moreno to the quality and continuous improvement of higher education in Andalusia.»
A moment from the celebration of the General Negotiation Board of Public Universities.
Under this agreement, universities will receive an amount equivalent to the cost of implementing the regional supplements for PDI granted in the 2024 call, adjusted to the effective levels.
The agreement also includes the transfer corresponding to the first installment of the horizontal career payment for PTGAS, once it has been evaluated and quantified. In the following years (2026 and 2027), the necessary funding to cover the amounts accrued from the implementation of the 2024 agreements will be added to this amount.
Regarding the other pending issues raised by the rectors that affect the university system, the agreement stipulates that they will be addressed in a technical working committee created for this purpose. This body must be established and reach an agreement during the first semester of the year, to ensure that these aspects are resolved for the remaining period of the university funding model, which will be in effect until 2027.
In any case, the Ministry of University has explained that the final calculation of the extraordinary funding for 2025 will be audited and verified by the departments of Economy, Finance and European Funds, and University, Research, and Innovation, in line with the agreement to determine the natural growth of the public university staff.