The European Commission gives the green light to the ambitious action plan of the One Europe alliance for the next 4 years
Una Europa has today obtained the support of the European Commission to continue with Una.Universitas , its strategic and operational project for the next four years, which will be financed by the “European Universities” initiative of the Erasmus+ Program. The €14.4 million grant awarded to Una Europa will enable the alliance to further its steps […]
The Summer Courses close their frenetic thirty-fifth edition
The thirty-fifth edition of the Summer Courses of the Complutense University of Madrid in San Lorenzo de El Escorial is already history. They have been, as the rector Joaquín Goyache signified in the closing ceremony held on the afternoon of July 28, four weeks of frenetic activity that have yielded a “magnificent” result , on […]
14% of Spaniards show interest in science and technology
Is a little 14%? Well, it depends on what you compare it to. Inmaculada Aguilar , general director of FECYT (Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology) , has presented the results of the survey carried out in 2020 by her institution within the course “The future of science and scientists in Spanish society” . In […]
The growing relevance of science will remain in the hands of young researchers
It is true that Spanish science has a series of structural problems (excessive bureaucracy, scarce funding, limited human resources and low social perception), but it is also true that in the near future science and technology are going to be much more important than what they have been in the present and the past . […]
“A laps with literature”: the Complutense passion for letters, in RNE
From July 28 to September 8 , every Thursday, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. , the Complutense will be present on the airwaves to share the passion for literature. The professor of Romance Philology José Manuel Lucía Megías will be the host of “Around with literature”, the new section that Manuel Hernández Hurtado, Manolo […]
The first adapted camper van in the world
Gema Hassen-Bey , a pioneer in Paralympic fencing in Spain, has brought the world’s first adapted campervan vehicle to the Complutense University Summer Courses in San Lorenzo de El Escorial . With this vehicle, she seeks ” for people in wheelchairs to gain autonomy in nature “, where she herself has also been a pioneer, […]
The diverse university with social commitment is the designer of the future
Begoña Gómez Fernández , director of the extraordinary chair of Competitive Social Transformation ; Joaquín Goyache , rector of the Complutense University , and Juan Carlos Doadrio , vice-rector for Institutional Relations , have agreed that an inclusive and diverse university is not only an ethical and necessary obligation, but is also stronger, transforms the […]
Ceremony for the 2022 UCM Alumni Awards
The gardens of the Rectorate have hosted the ceremony for the 2022 UCM Alumni Awards, in its six categories, as well as the appointment of new illustrious and honorary Alumni , who on this occasion have been proposed by the Faculties of Psychology and Veterinary Medicine . The event was attended by the rector Joaquín […]
The Mountain Chamber Nutrition Professor warns of the danger of relaxing food safety in order to avoid waste.
Healthy and sustainable. “It is the magical binomial of food today”, comments Montaña Cámara, professor of the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences of the UCM, and director these days of the conference “The challenge of sustainability in the food chain. The practical case of wine”, at the UCM Summer Courses in San Lorenzo de […]
University of Complutense, third Spanish university with the highest number of Erasmus+ mobilities awarded in 2022
With more than one thousand nine hundred Erasmus+ mobilities awarded, the Complutense University is the third university with the highest volume of students and staff who will carry out international stays in the 2022/23 academic year, enriching their training and personal growth through this experience in another country. We are referring to outgoing students, since […]
