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The Department of Social Welfare of the City Council of Torrevieja is going to launch the Spring School project, which will take place in the facilities of the Salvador Ruso and Gratiniano Baches educational centers, from Tuesday 19 to Friday 22 April, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m.

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 and the University of Alicante Headquarters in the town, this year a new intergenerational team of architects, teachers and students 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 International Residents, Cooperation and Immigration of the Torrevieja City Council, Gitte Lund Thomsen, has welcomed all of them and encouraged them to integrate into Torrevieja society and learn our language to facilitate their full integration into the city. It should be noted that these Spanish classes are aimed at people of all ages, with women predominating more than men.

Around 400 Ukrainian children and young people teach their studies in two educational centers set up for them, such as the center of the Association of Ukrainians in Torrevieja and, now, the Salvador Ruso public school, which has been opened to serve the large number of children who They have arrived since the beginning of the Russian invasion.

The Cultural Association of Radio Amateurs CQ Torrevieja has signed a collaboration agreement with AGAMED to give visibility to the global need for water. In the agreement, which has been developing for five years, the Torrevieja City Council collaborates through the Municipal Institute of Culture "Joaquín Chapaprieta", and has a clear objective: to raise awareness about the global water crisis, through the waves, contacting people from all over the world.

This morning a work meeting was held at the Torrevieja City Council to finalize the Reception Plan for people arriving from Ukraine and the details of the administrative processes and available services.

The Councilor for Education of the City Council of Torrevieja, Ricardo Recuero, together with representatives of AGAMED, the ARS CREATIO association and students from 16 to 18 years of Professional Training in Agricultural Gardening and Floral Compositions from the IES MARE NOSTRUM, have participated in the heritage recovery project of the vineyards in La Mata, which has been developed this morning in the Natural Park of La Mata in front of the cemetery of this district of Torrevieja.

Among the next projects that the City Council of Torrevieja will maintain with the FAPA Gabriel Miró, possible collaboration agreements are included to favor the development of the activities of the educational community. Likewise, Ricardo Recuero has informed them of the School Absenteeism Plan that the Department of Education will present shortly, and has explained the actions foreseen in the Edificant Plan with an investment of more than 12 million euros, and that they will be developed at IES Libertas, IES Las Lagunas, IES Torrevigía and Colegio Público Virgen del Carmen.

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.

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.

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 Association of Naturalists of the Southeast (ANSE), with the support of NaturGreen and under the direction of the Department of the Environment of the City Council of Torrevieja, directed by Antonio Vidal, has been advancing in the recovery of the plant formations of the Municipal Natural Park Molino del Water in La Mata. During the 2022 campaign, the implantation of 500 seedlings of dune species is planned in order to improve the vegetation cover and recover threatened species or species that became extinct in the province of Alicante.

AGAMED, the mixed economy company formed by the Torrevieja City Council and Hidraqua, has signed a collaboration agreement with Alimentos Solidarios Torrevieja to launch an initiative to help those most vulnerable groups and promote sustainability among citizens. The company agrees to donate 1 euro to Alimentos Solidarios for each client who requests the digital invoice before June 5, 2022, World Environment Day.

On December 1, the face-to-face sale of 3.0 bonds will open at the Office of Commerce and Occupation of Public Roads. On Friday, December 3 from 4:00 p.m., the online sale will open. The sum of the three editions amounts to a total investment by the Torrevieja City Council of 1,500,000 euros, which represents an economic impact of 3,000,000 euros

The Torrevieja Venue will host this Thursday, November 25, the second conference of the "Dialogues in the Territory" Cycle organized by the University of Alicante at its university venues. Specifically, this appointment will take place at the Torrevieja Headquarters, located in the "Virgen del Carmen" Cultural Center at 7:00 p.m., with the conference "From the Torrevieja Lagoon to industry and medicine", by Rosa Mª Martínez Espinosa, professor of the Department of Agrochemistry and Biochemistry of the University of Alicante, with the presentation by Ricardo Recuero, Councilor for Innovation of the Torrevieja City Council.

The Councilor for Education of the Torrevieja City Council, Ricardo Recuero, the president of Rotary Club Torrevieja, Luis Andreu; The representative of the Humanitarian Foundation of Spanish Rotarians, Ricardo Molina, and the deputy manager of AGAMED, Gemma Cruz, have presented this morning the second call for the Comedor Scholarships for children in the city who have not been able to have access to scholarships granted by the Ministry of Education of the Generalitat.

The Laguna Rosa has been used for the extraction of salt and, more recently, a tourist use of the immediate surroundings has begun. However, uses such as hydrotherapeutic, cosmetic and biotechnological have not been explored to date Diversifying the Torrevieja economy was one of the conclusions of the Torrevieja Strategic Tourism Plan, which points out the opportunity to work on endogenous resources that provide Torrevieja with differentiating elements and constitute competitive advantages to attract entrepreneurial talent and generate qualified employment The Torrevieja City Council has commissioned the General Foundation of the University of Alcalá (FGUA) to carry out a technical-legal study on the viability of these new uses

The Councilor for Education of the Torrevieja City Council, Ricardo Recuero, has released this morning the data for the start of the 2021/2022 school year, which will begin next Wednesday, September 8, with a total of 10,662 students / as and with 100% presence of students in the classrooms. -Children's students: 1878 students. 83 units -Primary students: 4456 students. 183 units -Secondary students: 2,895 students. 106 units -Baccalaureate and FP: 1433 students. 36 Recuero units highlighted that throughout the school year the health measures for the prevention of COVID-19 will be maintained, such as the daily cleaning service during school hours, the COVID-19 health advice to schools, and 12,000 masks will be distributed by all the centers of the town.