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A total of 17 students involved from Tuesday until Friday at the training 'written and archaeological knowledge to the southeast in Spain in the Middle Ages Sources'.
The Mayor of Cieza, Pascual Lucas, accompanied by the Vice Chancellor for Education and Innovation at the University of Murcia, Pedro Miralles, attended Tuesday in the conference room of the Museum Siyâsa opening of the summer course 'written and archaeological sources for the Southeast knowledge in Spain in the Middle Ages' of the International University Campus Mar-Mare Nostrum, organized by the University of Murcia under the direction of Joaquín Salmeron and Francis Veas.
The event was attended by the Councillor for Education, Manuela Fernández, and the Councillor of popular local group, Juan Manuel Molina.
Councilman opened the round of speeches thanking those responsible for this training the fact of making an academic activity of social dissemination of scientific knowledge possible.
"It is for the government team that chair a pleasure to open this academic year to continue the regular and close cooperation of the University of Murcia with the City of Cieza" he said.
In turn, he stressed the excellence of these courses that, in his view, "near the university Cieza and vice versa And there have been many activities that our two institutions have shared in recent decades. Remember, for example, the project ciezanos virtual exhibition of artists 'paints What Cieza' and the twelve painting competitions we have done together. Undoubtedly, these two examples are a special sign of quality this cooperation described above ".
Lucas also reiterated the Council's commitment to strengthen ties with the public university.
"A new era has begun in our town, and that collaboration between the two institutions will not only continue but will increase soon."
In this regard, he referred to the initiative promoted by the University of Murcia to offer their services to various municipalities contribute to disseminating it throughout the world through student exchanges.
Finally, the mayor welcomed seventeen students enrolled, wishing "to enjoy our town."
And is that students coming from outside can participate in various activities to meet cultural heritage, since the classes are completed with individual guided tours of the archaeological museums Cayetano Mergelina in Yecla visits, and Siyâsa in Cieza, and the Andalusian depopulated the same name.
UMU collaboration with municipalities
For his part, the Vice Chancellor of Education and Innovation, Pedro Miralles, referred to the recent meeting with the mayors of thirty municipalities in the region, including Cieza, with the aim of providing services to the University of Murcia them to contribute to its promotion by all countries.
And the Erasmus mobility within countries of the European Union, Murcia institution reaches 2,000 participantes.Para Miralles, municipalities can leverage the mobility to publicize its heritage and its natural resources and of all kinds in the world, "because these participants may serve as ambassadors of the region" Finally, the Vice Chancellor praised the work of the City of Cieza, expressing his hope that "this city will become the permanent headquarters of the University of Murcia".
"Vision through activity in the Middle Ages"
Another of the speakers, Francis Veas, co-director and professor of Medieval History at the University of Murcia, explained that the overall objective of the course is that students acquire a vision of the environment in which the activity took place in the Middle Ages in Murcia territory, considering the diversity that existed in it, since the Christian Muslim world in all its breadth: daily life, religion, customs, economic activities, problems of coexistence, water use, protection of hunting and the environment woodland and so on.
Responsible for closing the opening ceremony was co-director of the course and director of the Municipal Heritage Service, Joaquín Salmeron, used the closing ceremony of presentation to refer to media impact it registered presenting archaeological research project and value sociocultural Roman Iberian settlement of Bolvax.
It is an archaeological site composed of five hectares in the western part of the Sierra del Morrón and its confluence with the Rambla del Moro, on the left bank of the River Segura.
The archaeological excavation will begin on September 1.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cieza
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