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The Mayor and the Chancellor today signed an agreement for the transfer of a plot of 18,000 square meters, with an assessed value of over seven million euros, which will expand the Campus of Health Sciences.
Ballesta City Council reaffirms the willingness to contribute by all means available to it to become a center of educational, teaching, research and health of utmost importance.
The University of Murcia will have a plot of 18,000 square meters to expand the Campus of Health Sciences, under the framework agreement signed this morning by the Mayor, José Ballesta, and the Rector of the University of Murcia, José Orihuela.
It will be the third campus of the educational institution, located on the campus of the University Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca, adding to the existing de la Merced and Espinardo.
This is one of the most emblematic projects of those infrastructures promotes University, which has already built Biomedical Experimentation Center (CEIB), the departmental building space and building biomedical research laboratories (LAIB).
Now ceded land whose rateable value amounts to 7 million euros, in addition to the existing plot on the campus of Health Sciences, about 48,000 m2, which already routinely work several hundred researchers and teachers.
Its development will help to convert this space into one of the most important health resorts of the country.
Make this goal a reality is also a priority for the council.
Therefore, the Mayor, José Ballesta, reiterated the readiness of local government to collaborate with the University of Murcia with all possible means.
"We will support the educational institution for the implementation of infrastructure, access and all the necessary elements to make the Campus of Health a core of educational, teaching, research and healthcare for the city of Murcia" , said the Mayor.
"For us it is essential that the concept of campus," said Ballesta, who considers fundamental "joint efforts between the City and the University to enhance the character of Murcia".
This understanding is reflected not only in the agreements related to infrastructure and services, but also in other aspects such as the recently agreed Murcia Plan Erasmus, with which it is intended to increase the number of European students who come to pursue their studies to the city, learn the language and know the culture.
A center for research and teaching
In the land ceded-qualified as facilities- plot is planned to build a building of classrooms and labs and so concentrate on the Campus Health entire teaching and research that is now divided between Espinardo and El Palmar.
There is also the possibility of locating in this plot a social center and a center for childcare.
The university complex of El Palmar is located on a municipal plot that was ceded in 2000 and has currently with the Laboratory of Biomedical Research (LAIB) Opened in March, although it opened in September, in which they work about 500 researchers from 34 research groups, and a teaching pavilion where classes of Medicine, Nursing and Biochemistry are taught.
The LAIB is the second of five buildings Health Campus, which will be formed also by an animal research center, an educational pavilion, one department and classrooms.
Its implementation allows and enables researchers specializing in transplants, cardiology, neurology or oncology, can interact in a common space to share knowledge and experiences that serve to provide solutions to pathologies treated in the adjacent hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca, resulting the University basic research for the benefit of all citizens.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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