The president of Crue Universidades Españolas (CRUE), Roberto Fernández;
accompanied by the Secretary General of Universities, José Manuel Pingarrón;
of the executive producer of the RTVE program 'La Aventura del Saber', Javier González;
and the president of the Crue Audiovisual Working Group, Miquel Francés, presented on Tuesday, October 9, at the headquarters of the CRUE, the Sustainable Universe series, co-produced by 28 Spanish universities and RTVE, with the collaboration of FECYT and Microsoft
RTVE has already started broadcasts of the series every Wednesday through the program 'La aventura del saber' of La 2 de TVE, and topics as topical as accessibility, network security or if cancer has been tackled have been addressed. will become a chronic disease in the future.
Digital multicasting of the entire co-production will be done through Internet containers, the web pages of each participating university in the project and social networks.
The series consists of two seasons of 12 chapters each.
This Wednesday the University of Murcia has been one of the leading universities thanks to the participation of Professor Pedro A. García in the program entitled 'What is it made of?', Which can already be seen on the website of rtve.
Sustainable Universe, as Miquel Francés explained, "seeks to strengthen the relationship of society with the scientific community, to positively impact the public", which will improve their level of knowledge and competence, and also researchers, who will check the reaction of the public in front of his proposals.
This initiative, which "arises after the rewarding experience of another similar program, called The University Responds", added the executive producer of The Adventure of Knowledge, Javier González, "aims to give an image of nearby University, useful and connected to the needs that society demands in economic, social and knowledge terms ".
The Secretary General of Universities, José Manuel Pingarrón, congratulated Crue Universidades Españolas and RTVE for the implementation of the project and thanked the role of series as Sustainable Universe.
"Citizens have a need to know where we are going and what is being done, and the scientific issues are of sufficient importance for their lives so that they have the right to receive truthful information with university rigor," he said.
The president of Crue Universidades Españolas, Roberto Fernández, closed the event defending a growing presence of Science in the media to "give citizens a rigorous knowledge of reality to make it more critical and responsible".
Roberto Fernández recalled the crucial role played by scientific disseminators, "it would not be wrong to address a degree in Scientific Disclosure at the University," he said, thanking FECYT and Microsoft for their collaboration and sponsorship.
Source: CRUE
Source: CRUE