The document collect in 38 pages, a total of 82 recommendations elaborated by a total of 73 researchers, with more than 30 years experience, from 15 universities, research centers, assembled last week in La Nau. Divided in a total of 13 theme areas, offers between 5 and 6 recommendations each of them, for “an intelligent governance” in themes like global warming, the state of the hydrological cycle, the desertification, grand fires, tourism, agriculture, cities, the integrated risk management, the use of metropolitan areas, infrastructures, the communication, hydraulic works and public politics.

In today’s date, the university heads have agree in affirm that the Universitat de València, for its foundational spirit and quoting the known reflection of the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset, in ‘Misión de la Universidad’, which suggests that universities should first train professional, but also citizens, she saw herself “morally obliged after the dana” to lead this first encounter that was born with continuity calling. And it has been announced that here are universities interested in taking in the second encounter which, undoubtedly, as Romero has announced, it will be made extensively to the rest of coastal countries: France, Italy, Greece y Maghreb. This first conclave has reunited specialist of the Iberian Mediterranean.

During this morning’s presentation the managers of the UV have thanked the intense university solidarity to attend to this first conference that demonstrates “the large existent knowledge in universities and Spanish research centers and how this transfer can help to prevent, rethink stop to analyse and give complex solutions to an existential risk: climate change. Joan Romero has underlined that today “two existential risk, that compromise human existence” exists. “one is climate change and the other artificial intelligence, and for that type of risks, what we have done from the UV is promote the meeting with the scientific community to think together”. “The social maturing processes are complex: first the scientific community defines, next, the media, the grand intermediaries of the liberal democracy define, next, most society feels that it has to be faced, and, last, they are added in the public calendars” to legislate and be effective. And he has done a diagnosis: “In Valencian Community, the media has already incorporate it, we need that it permeates in society for it to arrive to the politic field”, something necessary in every scale: the global and metropolitan.

During the opening of these sessions, and also in the presentation of the conclusions, the Principal, Maria Vicenta Mestre has underlined the necessity to promote this first conference from the UV “in a time that has been marked and will be for a long time”, by the catastrophe provoked by the dana: “Is the founding spirit of the Universitat de València. We have to provide ideas for the public politics, to put science at the service of an intelligent governance. In the end, being a public university at the service of society”, and has underlined that is important to listen to science and that the government act accordingly, because “science is proactive and allows anticipation”. She concluded her intervention, thanking the daily work of all the teaching and research staff reunited in this conclave and, specially, the Professors of the UV Joan RomeroandAna Camarasa.

Conclusions will be raise to the different levels of the government

Each thematic block has counted with a speaker, who, as well, has coordinated various specialist for the elaboration of recommendations. Thereafter, each thematic area will present a short, medium and long term action plan out of a total of 5-6 concrete measurements. In turn, the Directors of the congress have elaborated, together with the speakers of the thematic areas, a proposal of conclusions and recommendations that will be given to the Principal to raise it to different government levels.

The organisers of this encounter consider that the riverside countries of the UE and of the Ribera Sur face similar challenges. For that reason, the congress will be extended to different Mediterranean countries.

The session has been organised by the UV, through the  The Lluís Vives European School of Thought, and it counts with the collaboration of Caixa Popular and the financial support of the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades y Conselleria de Educación, Cultura, Universidades y Empleo.