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| On-site activities will begin in September, while the first, which will be online, will begin on June 22 and will revolve around digital modeling and printing | The International University of the Sea, UNIMAR, which organizes the summer courses of the University of Murcia, will offer in this edition, the XXXVII, a total of 40 new courses, which, as is traditional, will address a very varied theme, covering numerous areas of knowledge and different professional fields. Since that distant summer of 1984, the year in which these courses began, each of the annual initiatives of the International University of the Sea has constituted a scientific and cultural reference point with one objective: to help structure and improve the relationship between the University and society, adapting their courses at all times to the changes and training needs that are demanded every day. Although there are courses that, due to their specialization, it is advisable to have a certain degree of knowledge before starting them, in general each of them is open to anyone who is interested in the subject matter in question, so no level is required of previous studies and the students of the University of Murcia can obtain 1 CRAU credit. Courses for all tastes Along with scientific diving and navigation courses, classics since the beginning of UNIMAR, this year the offer, wide and varied as always, offers others dedicated to creative therapies, relaxation techniques, eating disorders, failure management , healthy lifestyles, clinical hypnosis, theater didactics, political communication, promoting associations, latest trends in fitness, the value of culture and its socio-economic impact or smart cities among many others, a wide range to satisfy all tastes and hobbies. This year, due to the coronavirus crisis, UNIMAR's face-to-face activity will be delayed until September, although the first activity, online, will begin on June 22, and will consist of a Summer School of the faculty of Fine Arts with the theme 'Introduction to digital modeling and printing'. This summer school will be followed on July 6 by 'Deepening in family-centered early care practices' and' Oral and written communication techniques', in Cartagena and Murcia respectively, and another on 'Healthy lifestyles: approach from a multidisciplinary approach ', all of them online. In August the XXV edition of the initiative 'Looking at the Sea' will take place in Águilas, this in person, while on September 2, with the courses "Creative therapies and artistic mediation as intervention methods in educational, social and healthcare contexts "and" Eating disorders in clinical practice ", the face-to-face courses of the Universidad Internacional del Mar begin in the entire region. Learning with the best For María José Portillo, director of the current edition of UNIMAR, the UMU summer courses "today have a prestige endorsed year after year, and their best ambassadors are their own students, who can include these courses not only in their respective curricula , but also in their own life experiences.
" Learning with the best specialists in each subject, in an environment conducive to learning, are features that the International University of the Sea has carried among its hallmarks.
"Learning with the best and in the best environment could be the motto of these courses that years have passed the third of a century of existence, and that today continue to enjoy excellent health, "says Alicia Rubio Bañón, Vice President for Employment, Entrepreneurship and Society at the UMU. Both agree that tradition and avant-garde are perfectly matched in UNIMAR courses, and always with a clear objective: to achieve excellence in their approaches and development. Headquarters in twelve municipalities in the Region This year there are twelve venues from which the courses of the Universidad Internacional del Mar will be taught, twelve places in our region that will become centers of debate on the most rabid current and interest topics, thus fulfilling, once again, a characteristic that this initiative has always had: the multiplicity of venues, involving in each of its editions a good part of the municipalities of the region, true protagonists from their town halls, together with the University of Murcia, of this initiative of knowledge. The headquarters are as follows: Águilas, Alcantarilla, Caravaca de la Cruz, Cartagena, Diving Center of the Navy, Las Torres de Cotillas, Los Alcázares, Mazarrón, Molina de Segura, Murcia, San Javier, San Pedro del Pinatar and Yecla. 37 years of history, 1,200 courses, tens of thousands of students It was in the summer of 1984, during the rectory of Antonio Soler, when the first Aulas del Mar, directed by Salvador Zamora, were inaugurated at the University of Murcia.
Few could augur a path as fruitful and long-lasting for this initiative as it has had in the next almost four decades.
Those first summer courses at the University of Murcia, expanded and later transformed into the International University of the Sea, has developed in the Region, for 37 years, around 1,200 courses on the most varied aspects of Art, Science and Culture. Tens of thousands of students have passed through their classrooms, scattered throughout much of the regional geography, learning about the most diverse subjects from the hand of prominent professors and experts on the international scene, famous writers, artists, scientists, professionals of recognized prestige, and reputed specialists in the most diverse cultural and scientific manifestations, they have reelled their knowledge in all this time.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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