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| ENVIRONMENT C TEDRA - AWARDS Juan Carlos Vivancos and Annalisa Di Martino receive their recognition in a ceremony held in the Old Club de Regatas de Cartagena | The president of the Port Authority, Yolanda Muñoz, accompanied by the director of the Department of the Environment, Mª José Vicente, this morning presented the prizes corresponding to the IV Edition of the End of Degree and End of Year Awards.
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The young university students, Juan Carlos Vicancos and Annalisa Di Martino have received their recognition for the best Final Degree project, for their study, "Ecological functions of intermittent rivers for vertebrate terrestrial fauna", and for the best work End of Master, "Study of the impact of cruise ship traffic in the Cartagena Dock and the concentration of particulate matter in the atmosphere.
Behavior and influence of other factors in the atmospheric aerosol".
Yolanda Muñoz has thanked the involvement and commitment to the Port of Cartagena to "advance together towards a greener, sustainable and smarter port, as one of the strategic objectives set by the Port Authority of Cartagena" and has put in value the Chair of the Environment as an alliance between institutions to "improve actions aimed at protecting the environment and improving efficiency and competitiveness in port management, without renouncing to respect our social and environmental environment" .
A total of five works, carried out on matters related to the environment in the surroundings of the Port of Cartagena, were presented to opt for the prizes awarded by the Department of the Environment on December 4, 2019, one of them had to be discarded for not meeting the requirements, since it did not correspond to the 2018/2019 academic year.
Three opted for the award for the Final Degree Project and 1 for the Final Master Project.
These awards have been endowed with 1,000 euros for the final degree project and 1,500 euros for the final master's project.
This call has been aimed at engineers, graduates and masters of the University of Murcia and the Polytechnic University of Cartagena who have presented in the 2018-2019 academic year, and whose qualification is equal to or greater than nine points.
Muñoz has highlighted that "we have allocated 215,000 euros to this Chair for the implementation of projects that are helping us to be ambitious in our commercial objectives and at the same time, respectful of our environment and its biodiversity, seeking that balance so necessary that allows us that coexistence between the activity, causing the minimum impact, and at the same time, promoting measures to improve and control the quality of water, air, noise and waste ".
Chair of Environment It should be remembered that the Department of the Environment not only finances these awards, but also includes an ambitious project, a permanent collaboration structure to develop studies, professional initiation scholarships, technical assistance and projects in the field.
of the Environment, related to biodiversity and the responsible management of species and habitats, mainly the port environment.
In 2015, the Cartagena Port Authority, in its responsibility to raise awareness of its presence in the environment, launched the APC-Campus Mare Nostrum Chair together with the Polytechnic University of Cartagena and the University of Murcia .
This chair has the objective of reproducing the knowledge that the Port of Cartagena needs to improve the environment.
Likewise, this commitment has been extended to the companies that are part of the port community in order to sensitize it and make them aware that their activities have an impact on the environment, and that this impact should lead to its improvement and not your injury.
The Cartagena Port Authority collaborates with both universities in carrying out advisory, research and training activities.
It also makes available its own facilities that may be necessary for the development of the chair; promotes activities of dissemination, dissemination, communication and promotion of the actions carried out; and collaborates in the search for European funds and research destined to carry out activities related to the protection, conservation and improvement of the environment.
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