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The creation of the chair Infrestructuras City of Cartagena UPCT will make technicians and researchers of both entities to work together to optimize the urban infrastructure of the city.
So this morning the mayor and council of Greater Ubranismo and Infrastructure, José López, and the rector of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Jose Antonio Franco, in a ceremony that took place in the Graduate Hall School Telecommunication university and which was also attended by Vice Chancellor for Infrastructure, Equipment and Sustainability, Jose Perez, as well as researchers working lines.
This new collaboration will develop research, innovation and technology transfer in six lines: sustainable urban mobility, energy efficiency and implementation of renewable energy, water infrastructure, regeneration of degraded soils, green infrastructure and parajismos and Information Technology and communication applied to the optimization of municipal services.
In addition, under the chair he is offering scholarships to a dozen students or graduates, two chair, to develop research projects in the field of urban infrastructure and environmental sustainability with an amount of over 100,000 euros.
The call provides grants for research initiation 360 and 600 euros per month, or specialization with a staff of 800 to 1,200 euros a month.
Jose Lopez has indicated that the chair would facilitate making Cartagena a more sustainable and smart with the regeneration of urban areas city.
The Mayor also stressed the need to enable outputs also from the administration for young people do not have to go to other countries and bring you launch pads, causing the brain to innovate today in Cartagena UPCT settle in and be one pillar of the development of the city.
The rector of the UPCT, José Antonio Franco, has reported that the chair will make these students and graduates working on issues that can open them a range of opportunities in the professional field on different topics that deal with planning and sustainability city, adding his thanks to the team of current government for its collaboration with university research topics that have to improvements for citizenship.
LĂ NEAS WORK
With the introduction of the chair have been exposed one by one hand of the investigators the six lines of work to be performed, covering different areas of urban infrastructure optimization:
Group Agrochemical R & D, Technology and Management of Soil and Substrates hand researchers José Álvarez and Hector Conesa address the characterization and restoration of degraded soils of the municipality using urban organic waste for compost production.
The Group R & D Mediterranean hortofloricultura with Encarna Conesa and Jesus Ochoa will focus on adapted to our climatic conditions and landscape design green infrastructure.
The Group R & D Engineering and Infrastructure Transport, lideardo by Pilar Jimenez, will focus on the design phase of an integrated plan for sustainable urban mobility for the municipality of Cartagena.
Research Group Management of Water Resources, led by Sandra Garcia, will focus on the identification of actions for forecasting, monitoring and extent of flooded areas and compliance in the municipality of Cartagena, conducting an assessment and raising proposals prevention, protection and preparedness against floods.
The Group R & D Systems Mobile Communications will develop a platform to achieve a comprehensive settlement of all ICT City of Cartagena.
The Group R & D Systems Division and Electronic Engineering will be responsible for trying to improve the energy efficiency of municipal buildings and street lighting.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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