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For the fourth consecutive year, the subject of Architectural Projects of the University of Alicante (UA) returns to focus its gaze on the city of Torrevieja. Thanks to the departments of Education and Tourism of the City Council of Torrevieja and the Headquarters of the University of Alicante in the town, this year a new intergenerational team of architects, teachers and students will project on the opportunities offered by the city of Torrevieja and its tourist ecosystem , in what they have titled as “Torrevieja Grand Tour”.

The Councilor for Culture of the City Council of Torrevieja, Antonio Quesada, announces that today the deadline has been opened to request subsidies for cultural associations attached to the field of competence of the "Joaquín Chapaprieta" Municipal Institute of Culture for the year 2022. The deadline for submission of applications is 10 business days, so it will remain open until next February 23. The place for submitting applications will be the electronic headquarters of the Municipal Institute of Culture. The maximum subsidy to be awarded per entity is 20,000 euros, and this amount cannot exceed 80% of the total cost of the project.

The Councilor for Culture and Vice President of the "Joaquín Chapaprieta" Municipal Institute of Culture, Antonio Quesada, reports that during his stay in the port of Torrevieja, from October 2021 to January 2022, the Pascual Flores paileboat has been visited by a total of 1,298 people, including individual visits and school visits. Likewise, several outings called Baptism of the Sea were carried out, which some 200 people have been able to enjoy sailing on the historic sailboat.

The Councilor for Education, Ricardo Recuero, reports that the City Council of Torrevieja has approved this morning in the Informative Commission, the delegation of powers to the Generalitat Valenciana of 4 of the 15 actions planned in the EDIFICANT PROGRAM. These important actions, which represent an investment amounting to a total of 12,110,652 euros, will be developed at IES Libertas, IES Las Lagunas, IES Torrevigía and Colegio Público Virgen del Carmen.

On the morning of today, Friday, February 4, the mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, together with the councilor for NGOs and Volunteers, Concha Sala, and the president of the local assembly of the Alicante Association for the Fight Against Cancer, Manoli Flores, have placed the banner to commemorate World Cancer Day on the balcony of City Hall. An international day that aims to raise awareness and mobilize society to advance in the prevention and control of this disease. Likewise, the mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, together with the councilor for NGOs and Volunteers, Concha Sala, accompanied by part of the government team and councilors of the municipal corporation, and the president of the Association of Relatives and Cancer Patients (AFECÁNCER ), Victoria Meneses, has read in the Plaza de la Constitución the commemorative manifesto of World Cancer Day.

Yesterday morning, Tuesday, a meeting was organized with the residents of Torresur, an area of the Rocajuna urbanization, with a majority of British residents, with the presence of the deputy mayor of the Torrevieja City Council, Rosario Martínez, the Councilor for Security and Emergencies, Federico Alarcón, and the mayor of International Residents, Gitte Lund Thomsen, and in which members of the Civil Guard and the Torrevieja Local Police were also present.

2,327 foreign residents received information and advice from the PANGEA office, mainly from Morocco (383), Colombia (364), the United Kingdom (318), Russia (176), Ukraine (135), Belgium (123), Sweden (73), Romania (50), India (49), Argentina (49) and Venezuela (46)

The jury's decision and award ceremony will be held in the public act that will take place on Sunday, March 27, at the Municipal Theater of Torrevieja In the first edition of the contest, held in 2021, the award for Best Work went to " Los locos de Valencia” by Ugteatro (Murcia), and the special Audience Award “Maribel Vallejos”, was awarded to “MADRE”, by the company La Cueva de Melpómene

The Department of Equality of the City Council of Torrevieja has made available to the educational centers of the town a co-educational project using the traditional game of the goose, but updated and versioned in a gender perspective. It is an interactive teaching material to work on equality between women and men in relation to professions, activities, co-responsibility..., aimed at primary school students.

The City Council of Torrevieja collaborates with the Miguel Hernández University (UMH) in its Winter Program for the realization of the course on the prevention of gender violence "Training, intervention and prevention of gender violence from the design of cultural projects" , which lasts 25 hours and will start today, February 1, until March 1, 2022.

The mayor of Torrevieja and president of the Board of Directors of AGAMED, Eduardo Dolón, has informed of the investments approved in the first Council of the year, held in January 2022, to be carried out by Aguas del Arco Mediterráneo with the determination to continue in the improvement of the infrastructures of the Potable Water Distribution Network and the Sanitation and Sewage Network and the Municipal Rainwater Network.

On Saturday morning, the selection and audition tests to be part of the Municipal Choral School took place at the Palacio de la Música, with more than a hundred children and young people presenting themselves to these tests, which were held from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Palacio de la Música facilities.

The project has a global execution budget of more than 19 million euros, of which 10.5 million are from private investment, while the rest, more than 8 million, come from the Torrevieja City Council.

The team of researchers from the University of Alicante, led by Professor Rosa María Martínez Espinosa, is studying the use of halophilic microorganisms to clean contaminated water and brines before they are returned to the sea. Microorganisms consume these contaminants as food and make them disappear. At the same time, they create a biomass that can be used to make bioplastics. A raw material that can replace polluting plastics.

The Councilor for Culture of the Torrevieja City Council, Antonio Quesada, informs that the Ricardo Lafuente Memorial, which is held biannually, will take place on February 19, in which the figure of this pro Torrevieja composer and poet is remembered. .

The purpose of this call is to establish the conditions and the procedure to be followed for the application and granting of aid intended to facilitate a housing solution for these people in the municipality of Torrevieja.