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8,700 students of Degree will begin on Tuesday, the 1st, the course at the University of Navarra in the campus of Pamplona and San Sebastian. Most of them will do it in person and personalized, and with all the necessary security measures. In total, the academic center expects to have in its different campus with more than 12,000 students from Degree, doctorate and Master's Degree.

Although the enrollment process is still open, so far 2,193 new students have enrolled in the 52 Degrees programs offered by the University. The forecast is to exceed 2,200 first-year students, maintaining the positive trend of recent years. Of the total number of first-year students (2,193), 635 (29%) are from Navarra, 946 (43%) from outside Navarra and 612 (28%) from outside Spain.       

As planned, a face-to-face and personalizedteaching will be provided to as many students as possible, always in a safe way and with alternatives for different scenarios according to the evolution of the pandemic. The University launched a few months ago the Plan Prepara2, with 40 measures on teaching, safety and health, and scholarships.

At section teaching , the University has reduced the number of seats and face-to-face classes by half. The subjects will have the same hours and will be completed with more participatory methodologies and work on development staff and on group. With this outline, the Schools and schools have redesigned the internship totality of the 1,800 subjects taught.

To compensate for the reduction in seating capacity, 1,566 new spaces have been created at work (Pamplona and San Sebastián) and the existing ones have been renovated, with new technologies and resources at classroom. Thus, 450 webcams have been installed in classrooms, offices and seminars and infrastructure for streaming in 300 spaces, so that students who are in other areas of work, are ill or in quarantine, as well as international students who have not yet joined in person can follow the classes.

It is estimated that with the start of the new school year, the need for new investments in the project professor will arise and the total cost of improvements will be close to 2 million euros. So far, 1,285,000 euros have been invested in new spaces, adaptation of existing ones, extraordinary cleaning and health care measures, and new technologies.

PCR to the entire university community and 6.5 million scholarships

In the area of health and prevention, from August 24 until September 11, PCR tests are being performed on the entire university community. Subsequently, random sampling will be carried out, about 200 PCRs per week. Of the first 3,200 tests carried out on employees and students, the double-check system established has detected only two positive cases.

In addition to PCRs and basic mask, safety distance and hygiene measures, the University has created a virtual medical office, edited health guides for students and faculty, and established a specificprotocol for cleanliness and signage throughout campus.

Finally, the plan foresees that this year the amount of aid will be 2 million euros higher with the so-called Prepara2 scholarships, aimed at 671 families economically affected by the covid crisis. In total, 6.5 million euros of aid have been allocated, benefiting 3,000 families.

From Monday, the 31st, until Wednesday, the 2nd, each School and School will have sessions designed for new students to get to know the center as well as administrative and academic issues. The students already had an online welcome session on the 25th and during this time they have been informed of the plan put in place for a safe return to the classroom. This video has also been edited: https://youtu.be/G1_WyR4TXU0