In addition to UCA, the meeting was attended by representatives from Nord University in Norway, the University of Gdańsk in Poland, the University of Split in Croatia, the University of the Algarve in Portugal, and the University of Malta.
Casimiro Mantel, Rector of the University of Cadiz, today inaugurated a working session to promote the first joint degree “Sustainable Blue Economy” joint degree within the framework of the European Maritime University (SEA-EU) partnership. sustainable blue economy). The conference included Marcela Iglesias, UCA Vice-Rector for Internationalization, Fidel Echevarria, SEA-EU Coordinator, Laura Howard, SEA-EU Director General, Laura Perea, Director of Education Internationalization, and Maria de Andres García, UCA’s Director of Degrees, was joined by around 20 representatives from Nord University in Norway, the University of Gdansk in Poland, the University of Split in Croatia, and the University of Malta.
Work sessions will continue until Thursday of this week to advance the detailed content of this new joint degree. It is the first title of its kind within the framework of the Andalusian university system, which in February of the same year received approval from the Directorate of Universities, Research and Innovation of the Andalusian Government, clarifying its academic memory and the prospects for its implementation. I got it. For the 2025/26 academic year.
In his first intervention, the Rector of the University of Cadiz emphasized the “pioneering and avant-garde nature of this international academic endeavor” where UCA and SEA-EU are “making history once again and moving forward”.
The application for a new degree from the University of Cádiz, sent to the Andalusian Parliament last December, has passed favorably the first evaluation by the Andalusian Parliament’s Universities, Research and Innovation Department. Of the 21 titles submitted, none were rejected in this first report. A total of 19 degrees have been verified, and only two are subject to reformulation of the presented document.
In the planning of the degree map in the 2025-2029 framework promoted by UCA, this joint degree in the SEA-EU framework is a unique, international and professional degree that responds to the academic and scientific potential of the university Therefore, it stands out. Cadiz itself and a group of university institutions that make up the Union of European Maritime Universities.
