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The research carried out by the International Chair of CSR with the sponsorship of Hidrogea underlines that there are four municipalities of the Region and a Ministry that have been ahead of the application of recognition of social and environmental criteria of companies in the bidding processes that mark the new legislation of the public sector.

The president of the Port of Cartagena, Joaquín Segado;

the Vice-Rector of Research of the Catholic University of San Antonio, Estrella Núñez;

the territorial director of Hidrogea, Javier Ybarra, and the director of the International Chair of Corporate Social Responsibility UCAM-Port Authority of Cartagena, Víctor Meseguer, presented this morning the guide of good practices in the incorporation of social clauses in public procurement in the region.

This publication is the result of the first research study carried out by the Chair of RSC UCAM-APC to analyze the implementation of this system that highlights the social, environmental and good governance initiatives of companies in public procurement processes.

In this sense, Joaquín Segado has stressed that · it is a way to facilitate the work to the administrations, focusing on those who need it most and `to achieve an intelligent, sustainable and inclusive growth, while helping public funds be used with ethics and responsibility.

At the same time he underlined the Port's commitment to CSR, both with this chair and with work practices and contracts through ASTUS, CEOM and ASIDO.

For his part, Víctor Meseguer stressed that "with this work we have confirmed that the municipalities of Lorca, Molina de Segura, Fortuna and La Union, as well as the Ministry of Social Policy of the Autonomous Community have been pioneers in the implementation year ago and half of these conditions of award that reward the responsibility of the companies, and therefore of the projects that they develop by order and for the benefit of the society ".

For the Vice-Chancellor Estrella Núñez, she highlighted the research, development and innovation work carried out by the UCAM in technology, processes and procedures, solving real problems for the benefit of society, as in the case of this study.

Finally, Ybarra recalled that Hidrogea's commitment to encourage CSR adds to the principle that they are applying to the day-to-day of the company, both in environmental and social matters.

Source: UCAM Cartagena