Cartagena's role as host city for conferences focused presentation today that the Convention Bureau of the City Council has carried out in the Rector of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, to show their new lines of action.
The office manager, Antonio Garcia, has been commissioned to publicize the collaboration that can be established between the two institutions, T own Hall and UPCT, to give new impetus to Cartagena as a leader in the organization of conferences, while for the Vice Chancellor for infrastructure, José Pérez Garcia, the role of the Convention Bureau should focus on everything that is unscientific and a lot of work.
The impact on the economy of Cartagena, according to Antonio Garcia, will be important and would benefit the hoteliers of the city, mainly hotels and restaurants.
It has also highlighted the good publicity the city gets through visits of the Congress and its intention to increase the numbers of 2015 amounted to 10,000 congressmen in the past year. The medical and pharmaceutical fields as well as scientific and research, are the sectors that focus congresses organized in the port city.
Antonio García emphasized Finally, the importance of the n umber of hotel rooms, totaling 11,000 at the municipal level, demonstrating the ability of the city to host congresses, both nationally and internationally.
For its part, the mayor of Cartagena, Jose Lopez, who also visited the Chancellor to attend the presentation of the European Project Office UPCT, took the opportunity to highlight the momentum that the city wants to give Congress office and its intention to operate at regional level.
It has also highlighted the role of the office to capture UPCT congresses in line with the issues they are investigating and have the office as counseling and support, coupling prescribers conference organizers.
From the UPCT the Vice Chancellor of internationalization, José Manuel Fernández, he was in charge of presenting the mayor of Cartagena the European Projects Office, which was created with the objective of promoting participation and provide support to researchers in their R & D groups in calls for European projects.
Its basic functions are dissemination and promotion of European calls, advice on preparing applications, management and monitoring of approved projects.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena