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The APC-UCAM International Corporate Social Responsibility Chair will encourage companies, clients and administrations working with the Port to develop CSR strategies in their actions.

It will also promote initiatives that benefit the sustainability and quality of life of the geographical environment, as in the neighborhood of Santa Lucía.

The president of the UCAM, José Luis Mendoza, and the Port Authority, Antonio Sevilla, have signed this morning the protocol of action of the Chair and an agreement in the field of innovation.

The objective is to create value in the economic, social, environmental and institutional environment, integrating transparency in management and promoting these values ​​among Port collaborators.

In order to achieve this, units of applied knowledge will be created, and innovation will be transversal in all areas of action.

An important example will be the "Impulso Santa Lucía" project, a social innovation plan that will work with local residents.

Antonio Sevilla explained that "the Port of Cartagena proposes to universities to think about how the port of the future will be, so that they make proposals to us, which the Authority will later include in its line of work. The companies, that will allow to improve the port from where is the knowledge ".

For Víctor Meseguer, director of the Chair, "the Port Authority of Cartagena is the best ally we could have, since the hand of the Vice-Rector of Research we bet on the policies of social innovation and the hand of the Port we will arrive not only To the value chain, companies, clients or administrations that work there, but we also involve the neighbors of Cartagena. "

About the project "Impulso Santa Lucía" has stated that "we will fight to end the inherited poverty chain in the area, and we will try, through new technologies, that young people can develop a project Of life and an alternative to what they have until now ".

The vice-rector of Research at the UCAM, Estrella Núñez, believes that "this agreement is a step closer to the relationship between university and company. In the port have some needs to cover and want to know the groups most suitable to carry out that That's where the Research and Innovation Office of the UCAM will work. "

Source: UCAM