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oppositions: first discriminatory criteria ...

response to an appeal submitted by the November 6, 2001 , the President and Secretary of the Evaluation Commission prepared a report to the Rector on November 23, 2001 that shows how the evaluation of the merits of research was based on discriminatory criteria for anyone who has spent his career overseas and give preference to the work done in the URV, I quote:

(a)
" The Commission notes the absence of scientific productivity for the past 2 ½ years that the participant carried in the URV, understanding this productivity publications signed as single or multiple authors URV "(last paragraph of Section 3, page 4. report to the Rector of ).

(b)
"... hopefully better than that presented scientific productivity, if this teacher work 12 or 15 years at a university well-established and well means (eg., Of Edinburgh) , that if the same teacher works at a university very young, growing (for example, URV) " (second paragraph of Paragraph 3, page 4. report to the Rector of ).

If the second criterion ( b) be valid, it would be possible to eliminate any competition to all who had done academic career at a university more established and well means "that the URV (most of the universities in Europe since he was 10 years URV when the opposition). This approach is a fallacy .
The first criterion (a) unreasonably penalized collaborative work of a professor at the URV with other institutions.

But the worst is that my productivity was not null (see sentence (a)), but in that period of two years (March 1999 - October 2001) published 12 articles as can be seen in the Curriculum Vitae which were accessible commission (more than any of the candidates 'winners'!):

• 4 articles in international journals
• 1 item in national magazine
• 3 chapters in books or collections of articles
• 2 articles on the web with a system Authors / Editors
• 2 articles at conferences

And even putting aside the principle that the evaluation of scientific activity should be independent of place in the development, the commission "did not realize" that 10 of these articles were signed at least one author of the URV!

Each of the points in the report to the Rector are answered in my application to the Court of Tarragona (March 2002) .