The heads of UCAM, the Spanish Olympic Committee, the health group Ribera Salud (a close collaborator of the project) and the Torrejón de Ardoz City Council, visited the facilities this Tuesday, together with the head architect. The construction works are now entering their final phase. In the coming weeks, the facilities will be equipped with the most advanced equipment, which will make it a modern university campus, specialising in health sciences, nutrition and sport, a magnet for national and foreign students.

Nursing, Psychology, Physiotherapy, Human Nutrition and Dietetics and Food Science and Technology are the degrees UCAM plans to offer from this coming academic year, 2025-26, in a first phase. To this end, this centre attached to the UCAM under the name of Alma Mater Higher Education Centre, plans to open the pre-enrolment phase soon.

The administrative procedures as well as the building works and the provision of the equipment are well under way and are progressing at a good pace so that the Campus can open its doors in September, making the wish of the UCAM founder, the late José Luis Mendoza, come true.

After the UCAM president welcomed the attendees and expressed her satisfaction with the alliances established, the head architect, Juan de Dios de la Hoz (Lavila Arquitectos), led the tour of the building, explaining the uses and characteristics of all the spaces (classrooms, laboratories, study rooms, assembly hall, staff rooms, chapel, canteen, etc.), and said that ‘the facilities will be completed on 31 May’.

The UCAM president, María Dolores García, stressed that ‘this work will begin as a mustard seed, but it will become huge, offering young people quality training in the values that emanate from Christian humanism, which can transform this society’. Afterwards Alejandro Blanco, COE president, added that ‘this project, without any doubt, will be good for all athletes, for the entire society, for Torrejón and for Spain, making the dream of my brother, José Luis Mendoza, come true’. President of Ribera Salud, Alberto de Rosa Torner, agreed with the references to training in values and Mendoza, and pointed out that ‘we have made an alliance with UCAM in the field of health sciences, and we will collaborate with the institution through our University Hospital in Torrejón’. For his part, the mayor, Alejandro Navarro, assured that ‘for Torrejón de Ardoz, having UCAM in its city, together with the COE, is something they can be truly proud of; we will try to be up to the task as an administration and help them in everything they ask of us so that this project stays here for many years to come’.

The Campus is located in what was once a city school, on Avenida de la Constitución, a modern area with numerous services nearby and which is easily accessible from Madrid both by road and metro. With a surface area of 22,000 square metres, it has two main buildings and various open spaces.

Its presence will mean a significant boost for the city in economic terms, and also because UCAM, although its fundamental work is higher education of excellence (as reflected in prestigious national and international rankings such as QS, THE or FORBES), is also a foundation that develops and promotes intense research, social, cultural and sporting activity in its surroundings (it is internationally known as ‘The University of Sport’).