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The Executive President of Murcia, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, today reaffirmed the commitment of the Community with the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) to provide it with new facilities and infrastructure to improve and strengthen the services offered to students and citizens.

Valcárcel, accompanied by the rector of the UPCT, Felix Faure, and the Mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, opened the new premises of the Faculty of Sciences of the Company, in the former headquarters of Seamanship Instruction (CIM), in the center of Cartagena.

"It has been successfully completed," said the president, an old project of the city, benefiting once again, with another conversion of a former military facility into a modern educational and cultural infrastructure, and a new path to sea. "

In this case, funding for the construction of the new university center UPCT has been made under the undertaking given to the University and the Ministry of Defence, with a total contribution of 11, 5 million euros.

In this space, the Faculty of Sciences of the Company of Cartagena is adapted according to the president said, "to the considerable demand for places exists, and to improve and bring certain services to both the university and the municipality.

The consolidation and improvement of the regional university system is a core objective of government policy in the region of Murcia, said the president, adding that this objective is part of the construction of new facilities and the provision of teaching and research infrastructure in public universities, as is the case of this new university campus in Cartagena.

Regarding the "effort" that has been done to get some university departments teaching commensurate with demand, the regional chief executive said "the existing good understanding" with the authorities of the Ministry of Defence, for its traditional links to the city Navy and national defense.

New facilities for the Naval Museum

In addition to the Faculty of Sciences of the Company in this space has been recovered for the city, explained the president, plans to create, in addition to the academic center, new facilities for the Naval Museum, which houses its funds important collections and objects related to seafaring history, the biography of important marine and Navy scientists, as well as ships and historic vessels linked to Cartagena and Arsenal.

All this thanks to the understanding and collaboration among institutions, "bears witness once again the strong commitment and determination UPCT and regional government to provide a real property value, in the absence of his speech would be lost in a slow process of deterioration, "remarked the head of the regional executive.

In addition to the recovery of areas linked to the past of the city, the UPCT is one of the few universities where you are going to ascribe Training Centres of Defense.

Source: CARM