Notice

11 december 2025

The Rector of the Miguel Hernández University (UMH) of Elche, Juan José Ruiz Martínez, presented the awards this morning for the 12th edition of the ‘UMH University Management Innovation Week,’ the ‘UMH Teaching Talent Awards,’ and the ‘Academic Excellence Grants.’ The ceremony was held in the Auditorium of the Severo Ochoa building on the Sant Joan d’Alacant campus.

In addition to the Rector, those attending the awards ceremony included the President of the Social Council, Joaquín Pérez Vázquez; the Vice-Rector for Faculty, José Carlos Espigares Huete; the Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs, Susana Fernández de Ávila López; and the University Manager, Emma Benlloch Marco.

The winning ideas of the 12th UMH University Management Innovation Week were recognized at the event. This initiative, promoted by the Vice-Rectorate for Knowledge Transfer and Exchange and the UMH Management, and managed by the Quality Service, seeks to foster an innovative spirit among the University’s Technical, Management, and Administrative and Service Staff (PTGAS). The awards, worth €1,500 each, recognize ideas that improve services, management processes, or the functioning of teaching, research, and knowledge transfer.

Following an evaluation process of the finalist proposals submitted by 15 teams, the Final Jury selected the four winning ideas: The Research Hive, proposed by José Alberto Palma García, consists of creating a platform that allows researchers to easily find volunteers for their studies, enabling them to streamline projects and optimize their research time. Meanwhile, the Classroom Reservation initiative, presented by a multidisciplinary team comprised of Mar Roldán Romero, José Monge Soto, Laura Fernández Asensio, Abel Torrecillas Moreno, and Julio Alberto Ramos Martínez, aims to modernize the classroom reservation application. The project includes the incorporation of images (photographs or 360º videos), detailed information on technical equipment and accessibility, and more efficient search filters. Also receiving an award was the UMH DIGITAL initiative by Raúl Cárceles Chazarra, which proposes the installation of digital panels (MUPIs) in strategic, high-traffic locations on campus to more effectively communicate news, activities, and events for UMH students. Finally, UMH Access Keys, conceived by Sergio Briongos Caballero, proposes generating and storing secure access codes so users can bypass two-step verification and access UMH services when they do not have their mobile phones.

With these awards, UMH not only recognizes the effort and talent of its community but also actively promotes continuous improvement in all its areas of operation.

In addition, the 30 students with the best academic records for the 2024-2025 academic year received Academic Excellence Grants of €1,000 each. This award falls under the UMH Scholarship and Grant Program of the Vice-Rectorate for Students and Coordination, which recognizes UMH students pursuing undergraduate or postgraduate degrees in official first and/or second cycle programs.

The UMH has also awarded 90 UMH Teaching Talent prizes, each worth €1,100. These awards are distributed among professors in the academic fields of Health Sciences, Experimental Sciences and Engineering, and Social Sciences, Law, and Humanities. The prizes are part of the Docentia-UMH Program, which has received a positive evaluation from the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA).