The Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP) celebrates its 90th anniversary with the start of the Summer Courses at the Palacio de la Magdalena in Santander this Monday, June 20, with a program that includes more than 130 courses and an extensive program of cultural activities.
His Majesty King Felipe VI will preside on Thursday, the 23rd, the opening ceremony of the academic activitywhich in its first week will also feature the participation of the First Vice President of the Government and Minister of Economic Affairs, Nadia Calviño, and the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero.
will be held seminars, workshops and meetings which will have as protagonists sustainability, digitization, the new challenges facing police investigations, innovation in the face of breast cancer or the challenges of multiple sclerosis, highlights the UIMP.
On the opening day will be present, among other authorities, politicians and academics, Joan Subirats, Minister of Universities; Miguel Ángel Revilla, president of Cantabria; and Carlos Andradas, rector of the Menéndez Pelayo. Rafael Yuste, professor of Biological Sciences at Columbia University and ideologue of the Brain Project, will give a lecture on ‘Human rights: a reference framework for neurotechnology and digital technologies’.
To end his visit, the King is expected to visit the sculpture ‘Carlota’ by Jaume Plensa ceded to the UIMP on the occasion of the 90th anniversary.
FIRST WEEK COURSES
The first week of the courses will start with the minister Nadia Calvino and Luis de Guindos, Vice President of the European Central Bank (ECB), who will make their speeches electronically to inaugurate the XXXIX APIE Seminar: ‘Sustainability and digitization: The levers of recovery’. A meeting to which they will also attend Pablo Hernandez de CosGovernor of the Bank of Spain and Antonio Garamendipresident of the CEOE, among others.
Another of the great protagonists of the start of the academic activity will be the minister Irene Montero, who will intervene by videoconference in ‘The Rainbow Path: urgent challenges for LGTBI rights’, a course in which some of the progress that has been achieved in the rights of this group will be collected and future strategies will be discussed. In this same framework, Barbra WangareAlternate Co-Secretary General of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA World), will speak on the challenges and demands of LGTBI Activism.
will also be present Maria Gamez GamezDirector General of the Civil Guard. The Scientific Police will celebrate its XV Encounter where it will immerse itself in the new challenges that the Corps faces in police investigations at the hands of Pedro Luis Mélida, general commissioner of the Scientific Police; the director of the French Scientific Police, Eric Angelino and the commissioners Miguel Ángel Fernández Peire and Francisco Javier Gómez Laína, among others.
Personalities such as Mary Blascodirector of the National Cancer Research Center.
Medical research will be another of the outstanding sections, with two seminars dedicated to two topics of great health interest, in which the new advances in multiple sclerosis and the treatment of breast cancer will be analyzed.
On the one hand, from June 22 to 24, the 7th edition of the seminar on ‘New advances and challenges in multiple sclerosis’ will be held, with the guest Alberto Ascherioprofessor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at Harvard University and discoverer of the relationship between the Mononucleosis virus and Multiple Sclerosis disease.
On the other hand, on June 23 and 24, the venue will host the XI FECMA Meeting that will deal with the new challenges of research and innovation in the face of breast cancer in all its phases and, in addition, will have the presence of Jose Maria Borras Andresscientific coordinator of the Cancer Strategy of the National Health System.
The key role of Photonics in the economies and societies of the 21st century will be discussed at the V ‘International School on light sciences and technologies islist. Core: light in sources, health and medicine’ from 20 to 24. The workshop will present the difficulties posed by the management of natural resources and the possible solutions to these situations.
CULTURAL ACTIVITIES
During this week, literary and thought activities are planned, such as the Literary Tuesdaysa session in which he will participate Miren Agur y In context which will be led by Raphael Yuste.
On Friday 24, the Palacio de la Magdalena will host in its facilities, in addition, the recording of the program Hora 25 of Cadena SER, presented by Aimar Bretos.
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