The Chair team at the Universitat Jaume I funds a workshop on environment and healthy lifestyle
The team of the Chair of New Green Transition at the Universitat Jaume I has funded a workshop on environment and healthy lifestyle at the Mediterranean Researchers' Night (MEDNIGHT). The Workshop took place at the University on the 30th September. Participants were able to observe what aspects of their [...]
The Chair participates at the UPV in ‘The Great Survey’ on campus carbon neutrality
The Great Survey is an initiative of the chairs of the Polytechnic University of Valencia that make up the Alliance of 12 UPV Chairs for Sustainability, among which is the team of the Interuniversity Chair of the New Green Transition. The Vice-Rectorate for Sustainable Development of the Campuses collaborates with [...]
Digitalization, essential to take care of water in Europe
The Smart Water Summit, an event on digitalization of the water sector, was held from Monday, September 19 to 23 of September. This 5-day event explores how digitalization in water management is essential for the future of Europe. Thanks to recent investments by the European Commission with the Next [...]
The team of the Chair at the University of Valencia co-organizes the conference ‘The UE climate policy, decarbonization and circular economy: opportunities for the tourism sector’.
The team of the Chair of New Green Transition at the University of Valencia co-organizes the conference The UE climate policy, decarbonization and circular economy: opportunities for the tourism sector, on October 6. It will be held at the Department of Applied Economics of the University of Valencia and will [...]
Green hydrogen and biomass key to facilitating Europe’s energy transition
In the current context, Europe not only demands green energies, but also less dependence on other countries. That is why two technologies, green hydrogen and biomass, are emerging as protagonists in this paradigm shift, accompanied by solar and wind energy. Bio-Flex-Gen is a European project related to a heat [...]
Training for sustainable entrepreneurship
The Spanish Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge has recently published a series of free services with the aim of training in sustainable entrepreneurship. The entrepreneurs who benefit from these services (more than 1000) will be able to learn about ecological restoration and green infrastructure, among others. [...]
The challenge of making better (and more sustainable) use of the current housing stock
Is it necessary to build more than 2,000 million new homes in the world in the next 80 years due to population growth and changes in the average size of households? Does Spain need more than a million affordable rental buildings to solve the problem of access to housing? According [...]
Spain’s energy model, one of the most advanced in Europe in terms of sustainability
Spain ranks seventh in the European energy sector. This is according to the consultancy firm Oliver Wyman with its new Green Transition Index, a system with which they have measured the evolution in terms of energy transition of 29 territories in our continent. In each case, the use of transition [...]
Green Transition, a source of benefits for almost all jobs
"The Green Transition will bring employment benefits in almost all sectors," says Stelina Chatzichristou, an analyst in the Vocational Training and Skills Department. So say Stelina Chatzichristou, analyst in the Vocational Training and Skills Department, and Cynthia M. Harrison, CareersNet coordinator at Cedefop. These benefits, they explain, would be implemented [...]
One thousand euros in prizes for the best papers on sustainable tourism at the University of Valencia
From the Chair of New Green Transition at the University of Valencia we remind you that the second edition of the awards for the best final projects on green transition in Tourism, Towards a more sustainable tourism, has been announced. This is a great opportunity in which participants, in [...]
The Chair in New Green Transition will participate with the UN and UNITAR in a course on universities and sustainable development
The director of the Chair of the New Green Transition at the Universitat Jaume I, Eva Camacho, is taking part in September in an online course in collaboration with the United Nations (UN) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). She will do so in the [...]
The Chair participates in an international seminar of the UV on territory and education in collaboration with Colombia
From 17 to 30 June, the Interuniversity Institute through the ERI Sustainability of the University of Valencia held an International Seminar on Territory and Environmental Education in collaboration with the University of Quindío of Colombia. This activity arises as a result of the activities carried out by the ERI of [...]
The Chair of the New Green Transition co-organises a conference on the fight against climate change at the University of Valencia
The team of the Inter-University Chair in New Green Transition at the University of Valencia, led by its director, Aurora Pedro, co-organised the conference 'The fight against climate change and the recognition of the rights of nature: synergies of Mediterranean cooperation', which took place on Wednesday 29 and Thursday 30 [...]
The Chair proposes from the UV a collaboration with ‘Crete’s Culinary Sanctuaries’
The director of the Chair of New Green Transition at the University of Valencia, Aurora Pedro, participated from June 5 to 11 in a study trip to Crete (Greece) shared with a group of university students from the University of Wisconsin (USA), with the aim of knowing the experience of [...]
The Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge supports two projects of energy communities in the Valencian Community
The Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge has presented the results of the first call for grants for pilot projects for small-scale energy communities. In total, 45 projects in 14 autonomous communities will benefit from this measure, of which two will take place in the Valencian Community. The [...]
From the UPV, the Chair trains the staff of the Generalitat on the environmental impact of public policies
The team of the New Green Transition Chair at the Polytechnic University of Valencia co-organised, together with the General Directorate of Institutional Coordination of the Second Vice Presidency of the Generalitat Valenciana, a training session aimed at the staff of the Autonomous Administration on the Environmental Impact of Public Policies: [...]
The Second Edition of the course ‘Tools of Design and System Thinking for ecological transition’, organized by the Chair of New Green Transition at the UPV, has ended
The Chair of New Green Transition at the Universitat Politècnica de València organized the Second Edition of the course ‘Tools of Design and System Thinking for ecological transition’ on June 14th, 26th and 17th. The face-to-face course was aimed at master's or doctoral students interested in expanding their knowledge [...]
Grants to promote climate change adaptation projects
The Consellería de Agricultura, Desarrollo Rural, Emergencia Climática y Transición Ecológica (Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Climate Emergency and Ecological Transition) has published grants of more than 1.86 million euros to promote and encourage innovative projects to adapt to climate change. The particularity of these aids is that they are [...]
The Chair announces at the UV the second edition of the awards for the best bachelor’s and master’s degree theses on the Green Transition in Tourism
The Chair of New Green Transition at the University of Valencia (UV) has announced the second edition of the awards for the best bachelor's and master's degree theses on Green Transition in Tourism, Towards a more sustainable tourism. Students from the public universities of the Valencian Community who [...]
Next week, join the Chair’s course ‘Design and System Thinking Tools for the Green Transition’
The Chair of New Green Transition at the Universitat Politècnica de València celebrates next week the course Design and System Thinking Tools for the ecological transition. This initiative will allow participants (master's or doctoral students with an interest in the ecological transition) to learn how to apply the concepts of [...]
The director of the Chair at the UV supports the project ‘Ometepe-Nicaragua’ in Nicaragua
The director of the Chair of New Green Transition at the Universitat de València, Aurora Pedro, is training indigenous population at Nicaragua. The reason why is the cooperation project funded by the Vice-Rectorate for Cooperation and Sustainability of the UV Ometepe-Nicaragua. The project aims to help the Biometepe cooperative to [...]
The Chair at the UV visits the Albufera of Valencia with students of the Tourism degree
The Chair of New Green Transition at the Universitat de València has visited the past 6th of may the Albufera of Valencia, together with the Information Service and Promotion of Students of the UV (SEDE-UV) and students of the Tourism degree of the Faculty of Economics. The aim of the [...]
The Chair organizes from the UPV the second course ‘Design Tools and System Thinking for the ecological transition’
The team of the New Green Transition Chair at the Polytechnic University of Valencia organizes next June the Second Edition of the course Design and System Thinking tools for the ecological transition. The course is aimed at master's or doctoral students who are interested in expanding their knowledge of Design [...]
The Joint Commission of the Chair at the Universitat de València approves the proposal of activities and the economic report for the year 2022
The Joint Monitoring Committee of the Inter-University Chair of New Green Transition at the University of Valencia has approved its action plan and the economic report for the year 2022. In addition, Aurora Pedro, who repeats last year's position, has been chosen as director of the Chair. The presidency is [...]
Dionisio Ortiz (UPV) talks about the agri-food system and the ecological transition in Vall d’Uixó
Dionisio Ortiz Miranda, director of the Chair of New Green Transition at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, participated on Thursday 11 May in a conference organized by the Sant Isidre Agricultural Cooperative of Vall d'Uixó (Castellón), in which he presented the paper entitled The agri-food system in the ecological transition. [...]
The Interuniversity Chair in New Green Transition at the UJI promotes a citizen science project in Castelló
The Joint Monitoring Committee of the Interuniversity Chair in New Green Transition at the Universitat Jaume I approved today its action plan for the year 2022, through a virtual meeting. Promoted by the Second Vice-Presidency and the Department of Housing and Bioclimatic Architecture of the Generalitat Valenciana, the Chair has [...]
Aurora Pedro, director of the Chair at the Universitat de València, in favor of the tourist tax in the Valencian Community in the RTVE
The director of the Chair of the New Green Transition, Aurora Pedro, has been interviewed on Radio Televisión Española (RTVE) for the report she recently prepared on the tourist tax. During the interview, she explained how, with the data available from other European countries that have introduced the tax, [...]
The Chair collaborates with the Universitat de València to offer the new Diploma on ecological and nature law.
The Chair of New Green Transition collaborates with the University-Entreprise Foundation of the University of Valencia in the form of scholarships for the realization of a diploma this 2022/2023. It is a specialized training on ecological and nature law that aims to help in the fight against climate change, as [...]
The team of the Chair at the UV makes a report on the tourist tax to the Generalitat
The director of the team of the Chair of New Green Transition at the University of Valencia, Aurora Pedro, has prepared a report on the tourist tax. This is a tax that is paid per night of stay in the territory in question, from which children or minors under a [...]
The UV will host a conference on the fight against climate change and the rights of nature, co-organized by the Chair
The congress The fight against climate change and the recognition of the rights of nature: Synergies of Mediterranean cooperation, organized by the Democracy+ Research Group of the University of Valencia together with other entities such as the Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition, will bring together experts on climate change [...]
The new business management can only be understood with sustainability
Last March 30th, a conference on sustainability was held at the Hotel Arenas Balneario Resort Valencia, organized by the Valencia Plaza newspaper and sponsored by CaixaBank, with the collaboration of Grupo Gimeno. The banks fundamental role in the change through financing and investment in sustainable projects was one of [...]
The Valencian Community, one of the regions of Spain with the least generation of non-renewable energies
The Valencian Community only generated 19% of its energy from renewable sources in 2021. This figure shows that renewable energies must be urgently promoted as opposed to the more traditional ones, especially if we take into account that the Cofrentes Nuclear Power Plant is scheduled to close in less than [...]
Volkswagen’s battery gigafactory in Sagunto, in line with the green transition in the Valencia Region
The Volkswagen Group has recently announced that it will install its new battery plant in Sagunto, a news that has been applauded by different Valencian politicians and state representatives. This is the case of the vice-president Mónica Oltra, who has assured that these are "very good news". She emphasized that [...]
Boosting the ecological transition with the renewal of the New Green Transition Chair agreement.
The second vice-president and councilor for Housing and Bioclimatic Architecture, Héctor Illueca, signed yesterday Monday, March 14, the renewal of the agreement of the Inter-University Chair of New Green Transition. It involves the five public universities of the Valencian Community with the aim of promoting the ecological transition and sustainable [...]
Collective solar panels to share energy
Faced with the unstoppable rise in the cost of electricity and the need to be more sustainable, ideas such as sharing the energy from solar panels between the neighborhood of a block of buildings, or even entire neighborhoods, are being born. The only requirement is a maximum distance of 500 [...]
#UMHCompartecoche is born to celebrate the International Energy Efficiency Day
Tomorrow, March 5th, International Energy Efficiency Day is celebrated, and on this occasion, the team of the Chair at the UMH have the pleasure of presenting the #UMHComparteCar initiative, a mobile app, integrated in turn into the UMH app, which puts people who live nearby to travel together on the [...]
València, possible European Green Capital in 2024
The city of Valencia will opt for the European Green Capital Award (EGCA) after obtaining the support of almost the entire Municipal Corporation. This award recognizes and rewards the efforts of European cities to care for the environment, and thus improve the economy and quality of life of its inhabitants. [...]
The ‘Valencian Climate Change Agency’ is almost a reality
This monday the Delegate Commission of Ecological Transition and Environmental Sustainability of the Council met, made up of representatives of all the Ministries of the Valencian Government. The meeting has given the green light to the final procedures to make the Valencian Climate Change Agency a reality, a tool that [...]
Participate in the XVII annual international seminar ‘Sustainable Development and Integration’!
The team of the Chair of New Green Transition at the University of Alicante co-organizes together with the Universidad Externado de Colombia and the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (based in Ecuador) an international seminar that brings together experts in international law, international relations as well as European and Latin American [...]
Green transition only possible without global energy inequality
On the occasion of the 6th EU-African Union Summit to be held in February, the Africa-Europe Foundation, a network of African and European political leaders and civil society personalities, has already organised virtual meetings in advance. One of the topics discussed has been the great energy inequality between the [...]
Discrepancies on the consideration of clean energies in the EU
There is a debate in Europe about which energies can be considered green and which cannot. The European Commission proposed by the end of 2021 that both green energy and gas should be labelled green. The conflict arises from the different positions of the EU countries, which are quite diverse. [...]
Valencia promotes the decarbonization with the team of the Chair at the UPV
València City Council and the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) have joined forces with the aim of making València one of the 100 climate-neutral European cities by 2030. The Chair of New Green Transition at the UPV, specifically its director, Dionisio Ortiz, attended the event in which Joan Ribó, the [...]
The Chair of New Green Transition closes an intense year at the UJI
The Joint Monitoring Commission of the Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition at the Jaume I University met virtually on December 23 to close the work of the 2021 year at the UJI. Promoted by the Second Vice-Presidency and the Department of Housing and Bioclimatic Architecture of the Generalitat Valenciana, [...]
The UV Chair team closes the year by approving the 2021 activity report
Today, Tuesday 21 December, the team of the Interuniversity Chair of the Green Transition at the University of Valencia closed the 2021 financial year through the meeting of the joint monitoring commission, which took place this morning. The minutes of the previous meeting were approved at the meeting, the report [...]
Aurora Pedro, in an interview analyzing the impact of the current Covid-19 situation on tourism
The director of the Chair of New Green Transition at the University of Valencia, Aurora Pedro, has given her vision of how tourism will be affected by the current pandemic situation. She has done so in the newspaper InfoLibre, which analyzed how the increase in cases threatens the apparent return [...]
Aurora Pedro (Chair-UV) attends the general assembly of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
The director of the Interuniversity Chair of the New Green Transition at the University of Valencia, Aurora Pedro, participated last week in Madrid in the General Assembly of the UNWTO (World Tourism Organization, an associated organism of the United Nations), of which the UV is affiliate member; Her Degree in [...]
The Chair of the New Green Transition to participate in the conference ‘Supramunicipal Experiences in Urban Solid Waste Management’
The Chair of the New Green Transition will participate in the conference Supramunicipal Experiences in Urban Solid Waste Management, that is going to be held on Thursday 25th in Alzira (Valencia), in the House of Culture. It is organised by the Mancomunity of Ribera Alta. Aurora Pedro, director of [...]
The UV Chair team coordinates a sustainable tourism project in Nicaragua
A sustainable tourism development project in the native Urbaite-Las Pilas Community of Nicaragua was the focus of an online meeting that took place on Wednesday, November 17 between the team of the Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition at the University of Valencia and institutions of the Central American country. [...]
Conference ‘Climate change and green transition: a global challenge to fundamental rights’ at the UA
Thursday 18 November, the Room of Degrees 'Rector Ramón Martín Mateo' of the Faculty of Law of the University of Alicante hosted the day Climate change and green transition: a global challenge to the fundamental rights, organized by the Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition. The day was led by [...]
Conference on sustainability of the tourist experience in the University of Jaén, with Aurora Pedro (UV)
The Center for Postgraduate Studies of the University of Jaén organizes the videoconference Sustainability as the axis of the tourist experience, which will take place next Thursday, November 25, within the framework of the IX Cycle of Postgraduate Studies Conferences. From 7 p.m., Aurora Pedro Bueno, director of the New [...]
Interview with Dionisio Ortiz, director of the Chair of New Green Transition at the UPV
The UPV's School of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering (EAMN) has published an interview with Dionisio Ortiz, director of the Chair of New Green Transition at the UPV. His role is to address the challenge of the systematic and transversal adoption of the principles of the green transition in the field [...]
Full video of the webinar ‘Tourism companies before the European Climate Pact’ with the UV
The team of the New Green Transition Chair at the University of Valencia held on November 5, 2021 the virtual seminar Tourism companies before the European Climate Pact, in which they talked about how and to what extent tourism companies are will adapt to this agreement. Carmen Marqués and [...]
Education and sustainable development, the need for them to be inseparable
On the afternoon of 3 November, it took place the conference Building the future we want. Educational resources for sustainable development. From the Chair’s team at the University of Valencia we participated with the presentation of the director, Aurora Pedro, entitled Sustainable Universities and the importance of the 2030 Agenda [...]
Until November 5 you can compete for the TFG / TFM Awards of the Chair at the UA
The team of the Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition at the University of Alicante (UA), led by Professor José Francisco Chofre, has convened the second edition of the TFG / TFM Awards of the Chair at the UA. Any student who has developed and defended their Final Degree Project [...]
The Chair, in the third conference ‘Migrant women and refugees in the Mediterranean’
The director of the Interuniversity Chair for the New Green Transition at the University of Valencia, Aurora Pedro, will participate next Wednesday, November 3, in the third Conference on Migrant and Refugee Women in the Mediterranean that will take place at Casa Mediterráneo (Alicante). Specifically, Pedro will take part in [...]
Aurora Pedro (UV), at a conference on educational resources for sustainable development in Castelló
The Valencian Fund for Solidarity has organized the day Building the future we want. Educational resources for sustainable development (programa), which will take place in Castelló on Wednesday 3 November in the afternoon as part of the In / Sustainable project. The session will be attended by the director of [...]
Friday 5 November, join our new webinar ‘Tourism businesses facing the European Climate Pact’
From the team of the Chair of New Green Transition at the Universitat de València we are going to hold the seminar Tourism companies facing the European Climate Pact, where we will talk about to what extent and how tourism companies will adapt to this Pact. It will take [...]
The UJI hosts the award ceremony of the Video Game Development Awards for the Ecological Transition of the Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition
The team of the Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition at the Universitat Jaume I delivered today the Video Game Development Awards for the Ecological Transition, a competition organized last spring and aimed at undergraduate or master's students from the 5 Valencian public universities. The aim was to promote awareness [...]
Workshop “Co-designing a climate living lab at the UPV” organized by the Chair in the Conference «The UPV responds to the València Ciutat Neutra mission»
The open days The UPV responds to the València Ciudad Neutra Mission is held on October 7 and 8 at the Universitat Politècnica de València, organized by the alliance of 12 UPV Chairs for the ecological transition, among which are the Chair of New Green Transition at the UPV and [...]
We have the contest rules for ‘Green transition in tourism. Towards a more sustainable tourism’
We now have in the Diari Oficial de la Generalitat Valenciana (DOGV) the rules for the first edition of the competition Green transition in tourism. Towards a more sustainable tourism! At the team of the Chair of New Green Transition at the Universitat de València we want to reward [...]
The Chair, in a debate at the UJI on how to improve equality in science
On Friday 24 September, the Universitat Jaume I hosted the Mediterranean Night of Researchers 2021 (Mednight), simultaneously with the rest of European universities. In one of the scheduled activities, the director of the Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition at the Universitat Jaume I, Eva Camacho, moderated a public debate [...]
The Chair awards the Final Degree and Master’s Degree Projects on a more sustainable Tourism
Students who have dealt with any aspect of sustainable tourism in their Bachelor's or Master's Degree Final Project are in luck! The team of the Inter-University Chair of New Green Transition at the Universitat de València has announced a series of awards to highlight those works on sustainable tourism, green [...]
We participate in the Open Days ‘La UPV responds to the mission València Ciutat Neutra’
On October 7 and 8, 2021, the UPV's open days will be held in the Nexus building of the Polytechnic University of Valencia in response to the València Ciutat Neutra mission. Among the 12 chairs of this university that will join with the aim of proposing initiatives for the decarbonization [...]
Creativity for the change! Take part in the creative competition ‘Enjoy and respect’ of the Chair at the UV and make sustainable tourism a reality!
We remind you that you can still participate in the competition that the team of the Inter-University Chair of New Green Transition at the University of Valencia launched a few weeks ago! It is aimed at university students from Valencian public universities. The mission of the contestants will be to [...]
The Chair of New Green Transition, in the conference ‘Energy communities: citizen participation in the energy transition’
Aurora Pedro, director of the Inter-University Chair of New Green Transition at the University of Valencia, will participate in the forTUR programme of the 6th Tourism Forum by moderating a round table. Specifically, it is about Green Transition in Tourism: the challenges of decarbonisation, which will take place on Monday [...]
The Chair of New Green Transition, at the meeting ‘Energy communities: citizen participation in the energy transition’
Members of the Inter-University Chair of New Green Transition on behalf of the Miguel Hernández University have attended the meeting Energy communities: citizen participation in the energy transition which was held in Crevillent (Alicante). The event, organised by the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, aimed to present [...]
The Chair of New Green Transition, in the ‘I Conference on Sustainable Rural Tourism’ in Brihuega
Aurora Pedro, director of the Inter-University Chair of New Green Transition at the University of Valencia, has recently participated in the First Conference on Sustainable Rural Tourism, of the project Turismo Ariadna: El hilo que nos une. It took place in Brihuega, a municipality located in Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha. [...]
Is today’s tourism model sustainable?
Did you know that tourism accounted for 10.4% of global GDP and 10% of employment worldwide in 2019? These numbers show the importance of this activity for humans. But what is its impact on the planet? In addition to the obvious positive consequences, such as economic growth, job creation [...]
The Chair celebrates the 1st New Green Transition Scientific Conference
The Inter-University Chair on New Green Transition held the 1st New Green Transition Scientific Meeting on 20 and 21 July, organised by the Chair’s team at the Miguel Hernández University in Elche, Alicante. The aim of this meeting was the coordination of the Chair as a whole and the [...]
The Videogame Development Awards for the Ecological Transition of the Chair at the UJI already have winners
The team of the Universitat Jaume I at the Inter-University Chair of New Green Transition organised last March and April a competition aimed at Bachelor's and Master's degree students of the 5 Valencian public universities. The goal was to promote awareness and social action in the climate field in a [...]
What tourism, what economy do we want? Participate in the creative competition ‘Enjoy and respect’ of the Chair at the UV
The team of the Interuniversity Chair for New Green Transition at Valencia University has convened the I Creative Contest 'Enjoy and respect', which invites university students to think about what tourism and what economy we want. This is a competition for creative and artistic proposals designed to help raise awareness about [...]
Tourism, pandemics and climate change. Conflicts and challenges’. The Chair’s course has analysed the challenges of tourism
The Valencia University team of the Inter-University Chair of New Green Transition organised and celebrated the course Tourism, pandemics and climate change. Conflicts and challenges this 16 July. Aurora Pedro, Director of the Chair at the UV, took part in the course. The subject that was discussed is of [...]
Completed the course ‘Design Tools and System Thinking for the Ecological Transition’ organized by the Chair at the UPV
As part of its activity in 2021, the Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition organized at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, between June 22 and July 7, the course Design Tools and System Thinking for the Ecological Transition, which introduced the concepts of ecological transition and fair transition and their [...]
The Chair participates in the plenary session of the XVI Congress of the Spanish Association for the Energy Economy
The Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition participated in a plenary session of the XVI Congress of the Spanish Association for Energy Economics, which was attended by prestigious international speakers on June 29 and 30. The event dealt with topics such as the analysis of new energy policies, as [...]
The Chair, with the awards ceremony of the UMH Startup Creation Marathon
La Cátedra Interuniversitaria de Nueva Transición Verde ha participado en la 10º Maratón de Creación de Startups UMH a través de la entrega de un galardón a la sostenibilidad al proyecto ClimaticCo. De este modo, el equipo de la Cátedra [...]
The Chair organises the course ‘Tourism, pandemics and climate change. Conflicts and challenges’ at the Summer University in Gandía by the University of Valencia
The Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition has organized the course Tourism, pandemics and climate change. Conflicts and challenges, which will take place on July 16 at the Summer University in Gandia. Together with the director of the Chair at the University of Valencia, the course will be attended by [...]
The Chair organizes at the UPV the debate ‘Ecological Transition in the Valencian Community and at the Polytechnic University of Valencia – Multiactor Vision’
The Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition focuses on the Polytechnic University of Valencia in addressing the challenge of the systemic and transversal adoption of the principles of ecological transition in the field of public policies. As part of its activity in 2021, the Chair organizes between June 22 and [...]
Art and creativity to raise awareness from the team of the Chair at the University of Valencia
The director of the Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition at the University of Valencia, Aurora Pedro, has initiated a collaboration with the visual artist Rafa de Corral and the photographer Fernando Ricón. Both are members of the Collective Sporting Club of Russafa in Valencia and have extensive experience in [...]
Aurora Pedro gives a lecture at the International Symposium of the University of Amazonia, Colombia
The director of the Chair of New Green Transition at the University of Valencia, Aurora Pedro, was invited to participate as a lecturer at the International Symposium on Sociocultural, Environmental and Research Strategies for the Promotion of Community Ecotourism, Environmental Education and Culture. It was held on 2, 3 and [...]
The Chair, with the Consortium of university chairs with responsibility for the environment and sustainable development
"To consolidate the energy transition, it is essential to allocate resources more efficiently and sustainably over time." It is the contribution of Agustín Pérez, director of the Chair at the UMH, in this video of the Consortium of university chairs with responsibility in environment and sustainable development, today Saturday, [...]
The teams of the Chair in the 5 Valencian public universities prepare joint actions
Last Thursday, June 3, the directors of the 5 teams of the Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition in Valencian public universities shared a remote meeting to share impressions on the respective action plans approved for 2021. In this sense, the participants in the meeting learned about the activities planned [...]
Interesting proposals received for the Video Game Development Awards for the Ecological Transition
The Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition has received interesting nominations for the awards convened through the Universitat Jaume I, the Video Game Development Awards for the Ecological Transition aimed at undergraduate or master's students of the 5 Valencian public universities in the 2020- 2021. The call for the Chair, [...]
The team of the Chair at the UMH, at an online meeting of chairs of environment and sustainable development
On May 24, the team of the Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche participated in a first online meeting of twinning of chairs with responsibility for actions for the environment and / or sustainable development, with the idea of starting to work together [...]
The Chair organizes from the UPV an online course on Design Tools and System Thinking for the ecological transition
The Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition through the Polytechnic University of Valencia organizes an online course Design Tools and System Thinking for the ecological transition. The objective of the course is for university students to learn to use Design and System Thinking tools for the integration of the ecological [...]
The UMH Chair team plans its activity for the coming months
The Joint Commission between the Second Vice-Presidency and the Department of Housing and Bioclimatic Architecture of the Generalitat Valenciana and the Miguel Hernández University of Elche met a few days ago to approve the planning of the tasks of the UMH team for the coming months. The meeting determined, among [...]
The Chair will work on sustainability and green tourism at UV in 2021
The Joint Monitoring Committee of the Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition at the University of Valencia approved its action plan for the year 2021. On 11 May, promoted by the Second Vice-Presidency and the Department of Housing and Architecture Bioclimatics of the Generalitat Valenciana, the Chair has the participation [...]
The Monitoring Committee of the Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition at the UJI approves the 2021 action plan
The Joint Monitoring Committee of the Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition at the Universitat Jaume I approved today its action plan for the year 2021, through a virtual meeting. Promoted by the Second Vice-Presidency and the Department of Housing and Bioclimatic Architecture of the Generalitat Valenciana, the Chair has [...]
The Chair of New Green Transition extends to May 15 the presentation of nominations for its video game awards against climate change
The Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition has extended, through the Universitat Jaume I, the period for submitting candidatures for the Videogame Development prizes for the Ecological Transition aimed at Bachelor's or Master's degree students from the 5 Valencian public universities in the 2020-2021 academic year. The call for the [...]
The Chair of New Green Transition promotes the fight against climate change from the UJI with video game awards
Through the Jaume I University, the Chair of New Green Transition has just created some awards for Videogame Development for the Ecological Transition, in an iniciative aimed at undergraduate or Master’s students from the 5 Valencian public universities in the 2020-2021 academic year. The call for the Chair, which has [...]
The Chair, invited by the National University of Chiapas to participate in a ‘Discussion’ on post-Covid tourism
The director of the Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition at the University of Valencia, Aurora Pedro, was invited by the Autonomous University of Chiapas (UNACH) in Mexico to participate in a 'Conversatorio', a discussion to analyze the current situation of global tourism activity. At the meeting was expressed concern [...]
Meeting on tourism of the Chair with Visit València and Rebecca Johnson, Senior Changemaker of the GDSM
On February 16, an online meeting of the UV team of the Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition took place with the team responsible for the development of the Destination Sustainable Index (GDS Index) by the Visit València Foundation and with the Senior Changemaker Rebecca Johnson (Global Destination Sustainability Movement). [...]
The Chair collaborates from the UV with Visit València
The Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition begins the year 2021 at the University of Valencia collaborating with Visit València and the City Council of València in the preparation of the proposal for Valencia, as a tourist destination, to join the Global Destination Sustainability Movement (GSM). The GSM Destination Sustainability [...]
ClimaticCo, awarded by the Chair in the UMH Startup Creation Marathon
One of the objectives of the Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition is to support the creation of new business projects that innovate in areas related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). That's why it has participated in the UMH Startup Creation Marathon, which on January 26 presented the prizes [...]
The Chair provides working papers to the Subcommittee of the Council for Ecological Transition and Environmental Sustainability
On January 26, 2021, took place electronically the first meeting of the Subcommittee of the Council of Ecological Transition and Environmental Sustainability, created by the Second Vice Presidency of the Generalitat Valenciana and the Ministry of Housing and Bioclimatic Architecture. The virtual meeting was attended by the directors of the [...]
The Chair is presented in the program ‘Onda Empresarial’ of Radio UMH
On Monday, January 18, the professors Adrián Nerja and Agustín Pérez, from the Department of Economic and Financial Studies of the Miguel Hernández University, presented the Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition through Radio UMH. Both starred in the Onda Empresarial program, promoted by CIDEM-UMH. In the interview, they highlighted [...]
The Chair plans its 2021 activities
The joint monitoring committees of the Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition in the five Valencian public universities have held meetings during this week, with the participation of the Director General of Institutional Coordination of the Second Vice Presidency and the Ministry of Housing and Bioclimatic Architecture, Adoración Guamán. The [...]
Online meeting with the UV towards fair and low carbon tourism
Last Thursday, December 3, the virtual debate table "towards fair and low-carbon tourism" took place, organized by the Green European Foundation, the Green Transition Foundation and the Casa Encendida. This debate included the participation of Aurora Pedro Bueno, director at the University of Valencia of the Interuniversity Chair of New [...]
Aurora Pedro (Chair-UV) highlights the good outlook for tourism at the Camp de Morvedre Economy Forum
Last Friday, November 27, the Camp de Morvedre Economy Forum was held, organized by Levante-EMV in Canet d'en Berenguer, which brought together representatives of politics, the economy and society with the aim of analyzing the future of the tourism and the development of healthy cities from both the public and [...]
Agustín Pérez (Cátedra-UMH) talks about the applications of AI on climate change
Agustín Pérez, director of the Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche and deputy vice-rector for Social Innovation and Patronage, as well as a member of the group 'Research in the development of the current company', participated on November 26 in the conference Towards [...]
On December 3, an online conference on fair and low-carbon tourism
On December 3 at 6 pm, the online conference “towards fair and low-carbon tourism” will take place, co-organized by the Fundación Transición Verde, the Green European Foundation and La Casa Encendida. Tourism is one of the main engines of the Spanish economy, but the current Covid-19 crisis has shown the [...]
Aurora Pedro (Chair-UV), at the International Fair of Smart Destinations-Argentina
The director of the Interuniversity Chair of the New Green Transition at the University of Valencia, Aurora Pedro, was invited to participate in the International Fair of Smart Tourist Destinations (FI-Di), organized in Argentina. This Fair, which was developed entirely online, focused on Tourist Intelligence for Economic Recovery and Sustainable [...]
UNED interviews Aurora Pedro in a tourism politics conversation
Last Wednesday, November 18, the National Distance Education University (UNED) had the collaboration of Aurora Pedro Bueno, director at the University of Valencia of the Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition, for the radio program of Economics, Business and Tourism. The program was broadcast on Radio 3 (RNE) on Thursday, [...]
The Chair is presented at a conference on the European Green Deal at the UJI
The Europe 2027 working breakfasts organized by the Fundación Universitat Jaume I-Empresa (FUE-UJI) have hosted today, Wednesday, November 18, a session dedicated to the European Green Deal, in a mixed face-to-face-online format, during which it was presented to the assistants the Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition. The rector of [...]
Communication and innovation, keys for the economic future of the Valencian rural territories
The number 98 of the Work, Economy and Society Review published by the Valencian Economic and Social Committee (october 2020) includes a monograph about the Valencian rural territories. Among other contents, it comprises an article entitled The Valencian rural territories in a new economic model of ecological transition: challenges for [...]
I Contest of Prizes for Tutored Work (TFG / TFM) on New Green Transition
The Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition has promoted the announcement of the I Contest of Prizes for Tutored Work (TFG / TFM) of the Valencian universities, the bases of which have been published today, Tuesday, November 10, in the Official Gazette of the University of Alicante (BOUA). Any student [...]
The mixed commissions of the Chair have been constituted in the Valencian public universities
The mixed commissions for monitoring the Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition have been set up today in the five Valencian public universities. Promoted by the Second Vice-Presidency and Department of Housing and Bioclimatic Architecture of the Generalitat Valenciana, the Chair was born with the main objective of developing research, [...]
The Chair joins the UMH Marathon to support innovative startups in sustainable development
Support the creation of new business projects that innovate in areas related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). To this end, the Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition, the Chair of Transformation of the Economic Model of the Miguel Hernández de Elche University and the Chair of Cooperation for Sustainable [...]
The action plans of the Chair of New Green Transition will be approved shortly
The Monitoring Mixed Commission for the Chair of New Green Transition has been set up today, October 29, through a virtual meeting, during which it was reported that the Chair's action plans will soon be approved. The Chair was created by the Second Vice-Presidency and Department of Housing and Bioclimatic [...]
Proposals from the University of Valencia for the future Law for the Right to Housing
Last Wednesday, October 28, the Faculty of Law of the University of Valencia hosted a working meeting in order to elaborate the Valencian proposals for the preparation of the preliminary draft of the spanish Law for the Right to Housing, which included the various agents involved in the development of [...]
The Valencian Community creates the Chair of New Green Transition
The Valencian Government has authorized the signing of a cooperation agreement between the Second Vice Presidency and the Department of Housing and Bioclimatic Architecture and the public universities of the Valencian Community to carry out the activities of the new Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition during the 2020 financial [...]
Presentation of the Chair at the 5th Tourism Forum of the UV
On the occasion of World Tourism Day (September 27), the V Tourism Forum of the University of Valencia took place on September 29. Within this framework, the round table on Sustainability and Green Transition in Tourism was held, in which the New Green Transition Chair at the UV, in charge [...]
Conference of Aurora Bueno (Chair-UV) on the sustainable transition of tourist destinations
On the occasion of the International Tourism Day, on September 28, Aurora Pedro Bueno, director of the Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition at the University of Valencia, gave the conference Tourism and Rural Development: Towards an effective sustainable transition of tourist destinations. This talk was aimed at students of [...]
Beech trees from the Retaule of ‘Los Puertos de Beceite’, at the Sustainability Forest of the UJI
The Sustainability Forest of the Universitat Jaume I has grown incorporating four beech trees from the Retaule of the mountains of 'Los Puertos de Beceite'. The presentation event, which in other years had incorporated university volunteering, has seen limited participation due to the Covid-19 pandemic to the vice-rector for Students [...]
The Valencian government collaborates with the universities in the activities of the Chair
The Valencian government has authorized the signing of a cooperation agreement between the Second Vice Presidency and the Ministry of Housing and Bioclimatic Architecture and the public universities of the Valencian Community to carry out the activities of the New Green Transition Chair during the 2020 financial year. The Valencian [...]
Aurora Pedro (Chair-UV) speaks in Argentina about sustainability as an axis of tourism differentiation
On July 31, the Gastronomic Hotel Business Federation of the Argentinian Republic (FEHGRA) hosted the seminar Sustainability: great differentiator of tourism destinations, in which they had the collaboration of Aurora Pedro Bueno, director of the Interuniversity Chair of New Green Transition at the University of Valencia. From FEHGRA they recognized [...]