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 participation of the 5 Valencian public universities and was created with the main objective of developing research, teaching and dissemination activities on strategies and policies on fair ecological transition and the fight against climate change, within the framework of the concept of sustainable habitat.
In addition to the first video game development competition for the ecological transition, currently active, the preparation of a report on the Sustainable Habitat Participation Council, and another on behavioral economics are also part of the action plan. Likewise, the team of the Chair at the UJI will promote working days between the members of the Chair in the 5 Valencian public universities and will publish articles in scientific journals, in addition to participating in the XVI Congress of the Spanish Association for Energy Economics (AEEE).
Adoración Guamán, Director General of Institutional Coordination of the Generalitat Valenciana, among others, took part in today’s meeting along with Pedro Fresco, Director General of Ecological Transition of the Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Climate Emergency and Ecological Transition; Modesto Fabra, Vice-Rector for Planning, Coordination and Communication at the UJI and Eva Camacho, Director of the Chair at the UJI, as well as Amparo Latonda, Head of the Institutional Coordination and Analysis Service of the Second Vice-Presidency and the Department of Housing and Bioclimatic Architecture. At the meeting, Camacho was re-elected as chair of the Joint Monitoring Committee, while Fresco assumed the secretariat.