Statement from the Rector on the suspension of in-presence activity at the UAB
According to Royal Decree 463/2020 approved by the Spanish Government, in which the state of alert is declared towards the management of the health crisis created by COVID – 19, UAB has decided to reduce all in-presence activity to the minimum level necessary for assuring safety of its
According to Royal Decree 463/2020 approved by the Spanish Government, in which the state of alert is declared towards the management of the health crisis created by COVID – 19, UAB has decided to reduce all in-presence activity to the minimum level necessary for assuring safety of its personnel and facilities.
Given this emergency situation, and in order to preserve the safety of all persons, we recommend avoiding all transportation and physical attendance which are not completely necessary. All presence in the campus must be reduced to the minimum level, under the guarantee that all necessary procedures will be enacted for the maintenance of all essential services and to make sure that all necessary tasks can be performed by the university staff.
Services not defined as essential will not require the presence of staff in the campus. The rest of services will remain operational, as far as possible, on a remote, on-line basis.
All persons who require an unavoidable access to university facilities must contact the center administration responsible for the relevant building, to support the activity of the security services. All persons who are obliged to come to the campus will strictly follow the safety measures stablished by the health services and authorities.
All possible mechanisms have been adopted in order to guarantee a maximum of possible activity, including telephone attention. However, we strongly recommend communication via e-mail. We summarize some essential aspects ( more developed at www.uab.cat/coronavirus ):
- Teaching: Instructions and methodologies have been stablished, in order to enable teaching staff to replace in-presence academic activity with virtual, on-line activities.
- Research: when physical entrance into the university facilities is considered completely necessary, it must be communicated to the competent center administration.
- Administration: the various sectors of the administration services (payments, acquisitions, economic management, academic, TIC, etc.) will remain operational, as far as possible, on an on-line basis).
The Register Office will operate through its electronic site, and the Plaça Cívica Information Point will be available at the e-mail adress informacio@uab.cat.
The consideration of essential presencial services is given to those services requiring a daily supervision and monitoring, namely:
- Security services
- Experimental farm and fields
- Animal care service
- Psychobiology Laboratory
- Clinical Veterinary Hospital
For any event in the campus, including health issues, contact the Security Service at phone number (34) 93 581 2525 (permanent, 24 – hours service).
Institutional agendas and schedules will be readjusted in the next days, keeping on-line meetings whenever necessary and postponing non urgent meetings.
The Directive Team and the University Management will remain available for any university member. Additionnally, a permanent attention service will be stablished at the Rectorate.
This set of measures aims at reinforcing the suspension of in-presence academic activity, and other indications stablished following the Government instructions, and will remain in force for the next two weeks. Given the changing situation we are in, these measures and instructions may be revised and updated. A permanent channel of communication will the university website (www.uab.cat/coronavirus) and the institutional electronic mail. For consultations, the relevant address is info.coronavirus@uab.cat.
We are facing a world-wide critical situation and universities, as institutions at the service of society, must cope with a larger challenge, as an example of civic and solidary behavior. I am convinced that all university community at UAB will respond to this challenge and act with seriousness and rigor at the service of collective interests.
The situation may be very complex, but we shall get ahead. Take good care, and take care of others!
With best wishes,
Margarita Arboix
Rector
Given this emergency situation, and in order to preserve the safety of all persons, we recommend avoiding all transportation and physical attendance which are not completely necessary. All presence in the campus must be reduced to the minimum level, under the guarantee that all necessary procedures will be enacted for the maintenance of all essential services and to make sure that all necessary tasks can be performed by the university staff.
Services not defined as essential will not require the presence of staff in the campus. The rest of services will remain operational, as far as possible, on a remote, on-line basis.
All persons who require an unavoidable access to university facilities must contact the center administration responsible for the relevant building, to support the activity of the security services. All persons who are obliged to come to the campus will strictly follow the safety measures stablished by the health services and authorities.
All possible mechanisms have been adopted in order to guarantee a maximum of possible activity, including telephone attention. However, we strongly recommend communication via e-mail. We summarize some essential aspects ( more developed at www.uab.cat/coronavirus ):
- Teaching: Instructions and methodologies have been stablished, in order to enable teaching staff to replace in-presence academic activity with virtual, on-line activities.
- Research: when physical entrance into the university facilities is considered completely necessary, it must be communicated to the competent center administration.
- Administration: the various sectors of the administration services (payments, acquisitions, economic management, academic, TIC, etc.) will remain operational, as far as possible, on an on-line basis).
The Register Office will operate through its electronic site, and the Plaça Cívica Information Point will be available at the e-mail adress informacio@uab.cat.
The consideration of essential presencial services is given to those services requiring a daily supervision and monitoring, namely:
- Security services
- Experimental farm and fields
- Animal care service
- Psychobiology Laboratory
- Clinical Veterinary Hospital
For any event in the campus, including health issues, contact the Security Service at phone number (34) 93 581 2525 (permanent, 24 – hours service).
Institutional agendas and schedules will be readjusted in the next days, keeping on-line meetings whenever necessary and postponing non urgent meetings.
The Directive Team and the University Management will remain available for any university member. Additionnally, a permanent attention service will be stablished at the Rectorate.
This set of measures aims at reinforcing the suspension of in-presence academic activity, and other indications stablished following the Government instructions, and will remain in force for the next two weeks. Given the changing situation we are in, these measures and instructions may be revised and updated. A permanent channel of communication will the university website (www.uab.cat/coronavirus) and the institutional electronic mail. For consultations, the relevant address is info.coronavirus@uab.cat.
We are facing a world-wide critical situation and universities, as institutions at the service of society, must cope with a larger challenge, as an example of civic and solidary behavior. I am convinced that all university community at UAB will respond to this challenge and act with seriousness and rigor at the service of collective interests.
The situation may be very complex, but we shall get ahead. Take good care, and take care of others!
With best wishes,
Margarita Arboix
Rector