Today, 17th May, the INDUROT (Institute of Natural Resources and Territorial Planning, Research Building, Mieres University Campus) is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the LIFE Programme. The event will cover the importance of this programme and diverse projects that have been developed from the University of Oviedo within this European funding framework.
In 2017, the LIFE Programme and the Habitats Directive are celebrating their 25th anniversary, both passed on 21st May 1992. To acknowledge the important role of this programme in conserving European natural heritage, the European Commission and the European Parliament, the Council and the Committee of the Regions, will officially declare the 21st May as the “European Natura 2000 Day”. INDUROT wants to mark this anniversary by implementing this information day on 17th May, which will address the way that this financial instrument has acted to co-fund environmental conservation actions, to study ways of mitigating climate change, and to propose new solutions to treating contaminated ground. The day will have a particular focus on analysing advances made by the LIFE+ARCOS project, and on highlighting the importance of conservation works on coastal dune systems, the target of this project’s action along the entire Cantabrian coastline. It will also summarise the objectives and results of the 2011 LIFE+IDARTS and TREMEDAL projects.
The programme can be downloaded here , summarised below:
CELEBRATORY DAY TO MARK THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIFE PROGRAMME
17/05/2017 Start time: 12:00.
Location: Aula Emilio Murcia, 7a planta, INDUROT, Research Building, Mieres Campus
PROGRAMME
12:00 Presentation by leaders of the regional administration and from the INDUROT (Institute of Natural Resources and Territorial Planning) from the European funding programme LIFE. Manuel Calvo, General Director for Natural Resources from the Principality of Asturias, and Jorge Marquínez, Director of the INDUROT.
12:30 Communication about the LIFE ARCOS Project currently in process by Tomás E. Díaz González (leading project researcher and Botany Lecturer at the University of Oviedo), Nacho Alonso Felpete and Elena Fernández Iglesias (project experts, botany and geomorphology specialists).
13:00 Communication about the LIFE IDARTS project by José Luis Rodríguez Gallego, leading project researcher and Tenured Professor of Prospecting and Mining Research.
13:15 Communication about the LIFE Tremedal project by Jesús Valderrábano Luque, project expert and botany specialist.
13:30 End of the day.