UCA and City Council present the University and Cultural Campus of Cádiz Strategic Plan 24 January 2018
Consistory and University of Cádiz propose the strengthening of a campus open to citizenship, as well as the shared use and assignment of spaces
The City Council and the University of Cádiz today presented the University and Cultural Campus of Cádiz Strategic Plan. The rector of UCA, Eduardo González Mazo, and the mayor of the city, José María González, have explained the details in a call for media, where both institutions have expressed their commitment to the development of the city and the strengthening of its University campus. This strategic planning has among its keys: the shared management of spaces and compatibility of uses, the construction of new infrastructures and the cession of buildings and their adaptation for university and cultural uses and purposes.
This institutional collaboration between the City Council and the University of Cádiz for the development of the city implies, therefore, a series of actions in addition to those already undertaken by the University of Cádiz in recent months: the construction of the new Colegio Mayor with their own funds and the El Olivillo Business Transfer Center with funds from the regional ITI, as well as the cession by the Cádiz Provincial Council of the Valcárcel building for the return to the city of the Faculty of Education Sciences.
The mayor of Cádiz has highlighted the “transforming project of the university belt in one of the most beautiful areas of the city, which allows to recover spaces and propitiates the social and economic revitalization of the historic center” and which has as its center or axis “our neighbours”. Jose Maria Gonzalez has insisted on affirming that “the future of the city and the wellbeing of citizens has prevailed” and that he hopes to have a great reception in society as an example of cooperation between public administrations with the sole purpose of the common good, the interest of the city, of “the community”.
Also, the rector of UCA has argued that “the university wants to make its contribution to the city project and we have coincided in a cultural, academic and university model. Among our commitments is to contribute to the territorial, local, cultural and socioeconomic development of the cities where the campuses are located “. A bet that is not new, since “we have shown our commitment to the rehabilitation, revitalization and maintenance of public and heritage buildings” previously and is intended to be so in the present and future; since the “University belongs to all citizens” and their representatives and staff work daily to provide them with the “best possible service”. “Both institutions are public and their assets are also from the citizens” he said.
In this way, the university and cultural campus of Cádiz will be formed, only in the Atlantic front of the historic center of the city, by a total of five university centers, a university residence (already under construction), different class halls and buildings for university services , a business transfer center and sports facilities of new construction. Spaces and infrastructure for a campus open to the public, which will have more than 9,500 people among students, faculty and staff of Administration and Services.
In this context, in the last months other joint actions have already been worked on such as the agreement for the use of the municipal nautical sports facilities in the development of the practical teaching of the subjects in this field of the degree in Physical Education and Sport Sciences and the use of the new boats and nautical equipment of UCA by the citizenship or the elimination of barriers and new urbanization of the accesses of the Faculties of Medicine and Economic and Business Sciences of the Campus of Cádiz, who are already facing the final stretch of their execution.