The Minister of Education, Universities and Employment, Pedro Antonio Sánchez, accompanied by the Mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, this morning visited the Building Teaching and Research Laboratories (ELDI) UPCT, where they received the rector, José Antonio Franco.
Thus, they have taken the opportunity to tour the facilities of this building of 15,000 square meters that are already in its third phase, the last to finish the works. The project is lack of adaptation and partitioning of the building and the equipment of different workshops and laboratories.
T he first two phases involves an investment of about 7 million.
The rector explained today UPCT, who emphasized the role it will play the building housing the laboratories that currently are scattered outside the campus and facilities like the one in the polygon Cabezo Beaza, for example.
In addition, the transfer will ELDI facilities dedicated to teaching and research on campus of Alfonso XIII, allowing for rearranging and increase educational and training uses the surface it is free.
Ultimately, it will accommodate laboratories Industrial, Telecommunications, Building and Roads and Network Chairs, in which several companies in the region involved, and the center of digital content.
It is a great platform for teaching research for innovation and excellence, said the Minister of Education, who added that supports a scenario with more development opportunities, and job specialization.
For his part, the mayor also stressed the importance of the research work of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena: The prestige and quality of a university is measured in lines of research that develops.
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On the other hand, when asked by reporters after learning that the prosecutor does not see evidence of a crime in the role of society Casco Antiguo, under the Town Hall in the New Gate Residential Management, has given the mayor settled the controversy.
For the mayor, which meant the opposition is that there is widespread corruption in Cartagena and it is not so, the Prosecutor has made ​​it clear that in the process of awarding no irregularities, concluded Barreiro.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena