![Ramón Madrid, dean of the Association of Economists of the Region of Murcia, and José Luis Mendoza, UCAM president, during the signing of the agreement.](/sites/ucam.edu.en/files/styles/buscador_noticias/public/imagenes/noticias/2021-03/_mg_0445.jpg?h=f7061928&itok=pHCr7z3Y)
The Association of Economists and UCAM have signed an agreement
Both the dean of the Association of Economists, Ramón Madrid, and the president of UCAM, José Luis Mendoza, highlighted the one-year duration, zero-cost membership for recent graduates, and the pre-membership of the students of the third and fourth year to access some services of the association, as a complementary training tool to join the labour market
![Gedeón Guardiola](/sites/ucam.edu.en/files/styles/buscador_noticias/public/imagenes/noticias/2021-03/gedeon-ucam.jpg?h=69f2b9d0&itok=-mHtJpkd)
Gedeón Guardiola: “We want to do something special in the Olympic Games”
The pivot from Alicante won the bronze medal and six international medals with the handball national team
![Estrella Núñez and Javier Senent along with other members of their team, at Playa El Carmolí, located a few meters from the mouth of the Rambla de El Albujón, one of the most important that flows into the Mar Menor.](/sites/ucam.edu.en/files/styles/buscador_noticias/public/imagenes/noticias/2021-01/foto-smartlagoon.jpg?h=f7061928&itok=VYx0orzA)
Europe allocates 4 million to an international research project led by UCAM for the recovery of the Mar Menor
Through the European Union’s elite programme ‘Horizon 2020’, experts from six countries will create a digital model, using artificial intelligence, to monitor the salt lagoon and ensure its sustainability. ‘SMARTLAGOON’ will be replicated in other natural areas across the continent.
![Moment of the blessing of the nativity scene in the Cloister of the Monastery](/sites/ucam.edu.en/files/styles/buscador_noticias/public/imagenes/noticias/2020-12/bendicion-belen-web.jpg?h=f7061928&itok=WM-1JrTW)
Monsignor Lorca Planes holds the Advent and Christmas speech
The bishop of the Diocese of Cartagena also carries out the blessing of the University's nativity scene placed in the cloister of the Los Jerónimos Monastery
![Last year, UCAM invested 17 million in research](/sites/ucam.edu.en/files/styles/buscador_noticias/public/imagenes/noticias/2020-12/ftesisindustriales-web.jpg?h=f7061928&itok=KBBRfBqM)
The University increases its industrial doctoral theses
In 2020, seven new works belonging to the programmes of Health Sciences and Social Sciences have been defended. 31 companies at a regional, national and international level collaborate in the industrial doctoral programmes of the Catholic University
![Juan Ignacio Zafra, director territorial de Caixabank en Murcia y Andalucía Oriental, y José Luis Mendoza, presidente de la UCAM, durante la firma del convenio](/sites/ucam.edu.en/files/styles/buscador_noticias/public/imagenes/noticias/2020-12/foto-firma-convenio-ucam-caixa-web.jpg?h=f7061928&itok=Nx1NL8Cx)
UCAM and Fundación La Caixa will reinsert women in vulnerable situations
UCAM Universidad Católica de Murcia, on the initiative of its president José Luis Mendoza, has created the UCAM Senior classroom, aimed at the unemployed over 45 years of age. As a first step, these two entities will offer training activities and employment to 25 women, with the collaboration and social commitment of several companies in the Region of Murcia.