The meeting will be inaugurated at 10.30a.m., when the mayor of Riba-roja de Túria, Robert Raga; Antonio Marzo, general director of the ‘Medio Natural y de Evaluación Ambiental‘ of the GVA; Sergi Campillo, coordinator of the Area of Interior Government of Valencia’s city hall; and Jorge Hermosilla, vice-principal for Territorial Projection and Society of the Universitat de València.

Afterwards, the professor of Analytic chemistry Ángela Morales, who has coordinated the seminar, will present the Platform La Anguila al mar-la Angula al Túria, an initiative that the ‘Defence of the Forest of the Turia Coordination’ proposes to safeguard and to add value to the fluvial fauna of the Valencian river, specially the eel, which has been the objective since a few years ago of the repopulating actions of the environmental institutions. For its part, the professor of the department of microbiology and ecology, Consuelo Esteve, will give the conference: Anguila europea: estado, amenazas principales e iniciativas de gestión. The seminar will end with a release of eels in the Natural Park of the Turia.

The Universitat de València, through the Office of the Vice-Principal for Territorial Projection and Society, and Riba-roja del Turia’s city hall, have organised this seminar about the eel to remark the importance of the connection of the Turia river with the sea and its relation with the life cycle of the eel, an emblematic species of our territory that has been decreasing its presence in the last few years. The coordinator of the seminar, Ángel Morales, has explained that the eels do not complete their life cycle if the Turia river does not flows into the sea, and for that they have vindicate the necessity to ‘keep a permanent connection of the Turia river with the sea through a canal of enough dimensions so the existent fauna can use it as a fluvial corridor, to achieve the ideal scenario so this endangered species can be back in the Turia river to stay.

Riba-roja hosts the exhibition of the Universitat de València Territori valencià, territori runner

The vice-principal Jorge Hermosilla and the mayor Robert Raga, along with the director of the office of Caixa Popular of Riba-roja, Amparo Traver, and the curator of the exhibition, the professor Víctor Agulló, will also inaugurate on the 27th of March in the Exhibitions Room ‘El Molí’ of Riba-roja de Túria this itinerant exhibition that brings to life the social, economic and cultural importance of the running phenomenon in the Valencian Community. It is produced by an initiative of the Office of the Vice-Principal for Territorial Projection and Society of the Universitat de València and financed by Caixa Popular and the General Direction of Sports, the exhibition brings the work of 48 authors together, most of them teachers or researchers of the Universitat de València, as well as athletes, sport historians, trainers and journalists, all of them experts in running. This exhibition will remain open to the public in Riba-roja until the 7 of April, and then it will continue its itinerant exhibit walkthrough; the next destinations are Requena, Algemesí and Pobla de Vallbona.

The programme ‘Unisocietat’ has been established in Riba-roja in the course 2018/2019

The vice-principal Jorge Hermosilla and the mayor Robert Raga will use this seminar to take stock of ‘Unisocietat’ the formative and territorial programme of the Universitat de València that has started this 2018/2019 course in Camp de Túria. Currently, it has 50 students of Riba-roja and its surroundings, that receive regular classes through a multidisciplinary itinerary of three academic years of 120 hours each, all of them given by teachers of the Universitat de València.  In addition, ‘Unisocietat’ is complemented by monthly conferences with free access for the general public, and it is also complemented with different activities. ‘Unisocietat’ is promoted by Caixa Popular and the ‘Diputación’ of Valencia.