Bicorp’s Ecomuseum was the setting chosen to hold this circle of conferences which took place last Thursday July 3. Amparo cervera Taulet (Marketing Department), Ana Maria Garcia Forner (Geology Department) and Enrique Peñalver Molla (Instituto Geológico y Minero de España- Geological and Mining Institute of Spain) shared with the assisting public their investigations on paleontology, patrimony and touristic possibilities based in the community of Bicorp.
Bicorp’s mayor Fernando Ruano Mayans, the Vice-principal of Territorial Participation and Projection, Jorge Hermosilla Pla, and a representative from IMELSA (Valencian Provincial Council), collaborative entity in the activity, Jose Luis Pellicer Garcia, inaugurated the event. The mayor thanked the University of Valencia for its presence in this community in the area of Canal de Navarres and ensured: “we have a large patrimony and environmental beauty, but we lack counseling to attract high-quality tourism able to enjoy and respect our surroundings; this is why the University of Valencia is here today, to inform, reflect and asses over this territorial development”.
The vice-president Jorge Hermosilla explained that his event is part of the program “Universitat i Territori” that his office is developing through 2014, an action aimed, as he stated, to “establish links for collaboration with the town halls to work together in the achievement of two objectives: promote territorial growth and improve the citizens’ training.
Doctor in Paleontology Ana Maria Garcia Forner, who currently works as a curator of the Museu de Geologia de la Universitat de València (Geology Museum of the University of Valencia), offered the first of the conferences about paleontology, an opportunity for the natural patrimony and territorial development.
Then, Enrique Peñalver Molla, biologist specialized in fossil insects preserved in embedded rocks and amber, who currently works as a full researcher in the Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, carried out an academic approximation to paleontology in the surrounding of the Massif of Caroig.
Finally, the full university professor of Marketing, Amparo Cervera Taulet, closed the session of presentations reflecting on the management of the tourists’ experiences to value the resources of a destiny because, as she pointed out, “the current consumer is guided by the motivation of living unique experiences with their active participation on them”.
The event concluded with a debate between the rapporteurs and the public, in which Bicorp assistants and other people from the community actively participated, as well as the collection and museums of paleontology network of the Valencian Community. With this initiative, the University of Valencia through the Office of Vice-principal of Territorial Participation and Projection, aims to transmit the knowledge of the teaching and researching personnel of the UV to the local Valencian entities.
Last update: 4 de july de 2014 11:17.
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