Closure of the ACADEMIA Programme (Royal Decree 1312/2007)

The accreditation procedure for university teaching bodies (Profesor/a Titular de Universidad and Catedrática/o de Universidad) in accordance with the criteria established in Royal Decree 1312/2007, of 5 October (repealed from 7 September 2023), has been maintained on a transitional basis until 1 April, as provided for in Royal Decree 678/2023, of 18 July, which regulates state accreditation for access to university teaching bodies.

Despite all the pressure on the ACADEMIA programme, which has caused significant stress to applicants for which ANECA's Management apologises, the computer application closed today has resisted sufficiently for 6,374 applications to have been submitted in March alone (on 31 March, 883). This is almost the same number of applications received for the whole of 2023 (6,730). Already the applications received in 2023 increased by almost 50% compared to 2022 (4,544), so ANECA's Directorate took several measures with the aim of reducing the waiting times for a decision.

The transitional maintenance of the procedure until the established date has allowed almost 11,000 applications to be submitted between July 2023 and March 2024, as can be seen in the following graph:

Solicitudes ACADEMIA julio 2023 (aprobación RD 678/2023) - marzo 2024
Mes	CU	TU	Total
jul-23	328	595	923
ago-23	114	231	345
sep-23	171	308	479
oct-23	161	352	513
nov-23	170	260	430
dic-23	283	444	727
ene-24	162	306	468
feb-24	293	431	724
mar-24	2928	3446	6374
Total general	4610	6373	10983

Ante esta situación tan excepcional, también desde la Dirección de ANECA se adoptarán todas las medidas que estén en su mano para solventar los problemas derivados de las infraestructuras informáticas y para permitir la resolución de las solicitudes recibidas en el menor tiempo posible, con la colaboración inestimable de las comisiones de acreditación y de todo el personal técnico.