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August will no longer be synonymous with inactivity in Cartagena.
The Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT), together with the Funcarele Foundation and the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP), has set out to boost the urban center during the summer with an extensive training and leisure program at an International Summer Campus. Its first edition offers some thirty courses and activities.
The core of the training offer will be the language courses, among which the most important are Spanish for foreigners, the preparation of official exams in English and Spanish, and for trainers in both languages ​​and legal English.
Regarding leisure, the sea will be the main protagonist of the activities organized by the Real Club de Regatas de Cartagena, although there will also be space for cultural workshops such as theater.
The UPCT rector, Alejandro Díaz Morcillo, the mayor of Cartagena, José López, the director general of Universities and Research of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, Juan Monzó, and the academic director of this I International Summer Campus, President of the Chamber of Commerce and Funcarele, Miguel Martinez, presented on Thursday the offer of the same in the Faculty of Sciences of the Company, in the former Barracks of Instruction of Mariners.
"The aim is to make Cartagena a reference for training and leisure in summer, giving life to the historic center and offering useful services for international students, tourists, professionals or families who seek a complement to the knowledge that their children acquire during the course "Explains José Manuel Ferrández, vice-rector of Internationalization at the UPCT.
The summer campus in Jaca of the University of Zaragoza or the International University Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP) in Santander are some of the models to follow for the Polytechnic of Cartagena, which will open during August its most emblematic center, the Faculty Of Science of the Company, next to the port, and its residence of the Street Caballero to also offer lodging to the attendees to the courses.
In addition to languages, the courses will be able to learn about oratory, internationalization of companies, marketing, trends, 'big data', 'smart cities', 'design thinking', Chinese ink, female personal defense or introduction to underwater archeology. A course led by Carlota Pérez-Reverte.
Leisure activities include baptisms and dive courses and sailing, dragon boat trips, kayak routes through the coves, snorkel and a campus of actors.
The Mayor, José López, recalled that the City Council is the main sponsor of this Campus and noted that it "is already a very important part of tourism in Cartagena and must remain so."
Likewise, the first mayor emphasized the "decided commitment from the first day" of the entire municipal government and the "academic benefits" that can be found by the registrants, and that according to has indicated can not "find somewhere else, or at least They will never have this framework if they do not come here to this summer campus. "
Likewise, López has remarked "the iron decision that Cartagena advance of the hand of the public universities and, in this case, of the hand of the Polytechnical University of Cartagena".
During his speech, the Rector of the UPCT stressed the "service" to the growth of the environment and of the city and the "commitment to society, with Cartagena", of the institution he runs.
On the other hand, he explained that the offer of courses constitutes a "mixture of dissemination, of leisure formation" and has wished "to serve to give visibility to Cartagena and its university" from now on.
"The city will win, sure," he said.
The Director General of Universities and Research has described this Campus as an "exciting project that will benefit many people" and that "will allow to bring a lot of academic tourism."
It has also highlighted the differential fact of the same are its "enclaves and spaces" located "next to the sea."
The academic director of the International Summer Campus of the UPCT commented that "through the university" and "of education" can "streamline a whole productive fabric".
In his speech, he thanked the City Council for having "been there from the first moment with very clear ideas to energize and promote this project" and stressed that the intention with the launch of this Campus is to "achieve something great for Cartagena, for the Region and for Spain ".
"We have the audacity to go very far and to compete in the state and international scope", asserted Miguel Martínez.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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