European researchers, led by UCAM, install the first smart buoy in the Mar Menor
This measuring device will efficiently send real-time data on the lagoon’s temperature, salinity, chlorophyll and turbidity
Young European artists train in marketing at UCAM
The Los Jerónimos Campus hosted the Art Marketing Training event, along with the final meeting of the European project Refresh+. Both events have allowed 11 European artists to learn about artistic marketing and how to promote their personal brands.
A mobile application for citizens will help to monitor the Mar Menor
This is an initiative of Smartlagoon, a European H2020 project led by UCAM, in which the Swiss company Photrack is a partner. Its researchers have analysed the Discharge APP with representatives of the Confederación Hidrográfica del Segura and the General Directorate of the Mar Menor
UCAM will train European youngsters in healthy and organic nutrition
The Universidad Católica, together with institutions from Norway, Greece, Iceland and Poland, is participating in the My Organic Way project to create digital content that promotes organic farming and healthy eating.
European researchers, led by UCAM, have begun to monitor the Mar Menor
Sensors will provide real-time information on the levels of oxygen, temperature, salinity, chlorophyll and turbidity at different depths.
120 companies attend the inauguration of the UCAM’s ‘Agringenia-Nutripeople’ Chair in Circular Economy
At the event, Manuel Navarro, responsible for Acciona’s Water Cycle, gave a speech in which he stressed that “in Murcia we have learned to use water properly with very high levels of efficiency” and advocated desalination plants as a complement to irrigation
A low-cost prototype provides real-time information regarding wastewater quality
UCAM, who validated this device in four sewage treatment plants of the Region, participates in the European project Life Ecosens Aquamonitrix, together with partners from Ireland, Finland, Portugal and Spain.
Investing in physical exercise would entail a substantial saving on health expenditure
The ‘Life Age’ European Project, led by UCAM, ends with an international ‘online’ meeting in which the benefits of physical activity for the improvement of the quality of life of older people are highlighted
UCAM leads a European Project for elite university athletes with disabilities
Institutions from seven countries participate in ‘Paralimits’ to adapt the model that UCAM and the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) developed for elite athletes with special needs, thus promoting their social integration and their inclusion in the labour market once they end their sports career.
