SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, July 8 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The headquarters of the Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País de Tenerife (RSEAPT) hosts this Monday at 09:15 a.m. the presentation ceremony of the 1st Macaronesian Summer School, whose main objective is to promote the scientific-technical and sociocultural leadership of the new generations of the archipelagos of the Mid-Atlantic.
The event will feature the acting counselor for Ecological Transition, the Fight against Climate Change and Territorial Planning of the Government of the Canary Islands, José Antonio Valbuena; the general director of European Affairs and External Cooperation of the Government of Azores, Carlos Pacheco Amaral; the Cape Verdean consul, Juan Cárdenes Martín; and José Gómez Soliño, co-director of the School together with Basilio Valladares, president of the Canarian Foundation for the Control of Tropical Diseases (FUNCCET), the organizing entity.
A total of 35 scholarship holders from Cape Verde, Azores and Madeira will participate in this first edition in which they will access seminars supervised by more than 20 technical experts. The students will arrive in Tenerife this Saturday and will participate in the 8 Islands Traditional Canarian Music Festival. In addition, they will know the traditional pilgrimage of San Benito.
The week of seminars begins this Monday and will continue until next Friday under the generic title ‘Macaronesia: a future to build’, in double sessions in the morning (10:00-13:00) and afternoon (16:00-19:00) to be held in the hall of the RSEAPT, located at Calle San Agustín, number 23, and whose access will be free of charge.
In recent decades, the term Macaronesia, understood as a singular constellation of archipelagos located in the Mid-Atlantic, has experienced increasing relevance, for a certain sector of the inhabitants of said archipelagos, and especially for the ruling groups of the respective territories, this The concept of Macaronesia expresses an awareness of the fundamental affinity of the Atlantic island societies and a clear desire for convergence and cooperation.
However, outside of that geographic area, this concept is not as well known as one might expect. Neither does a large part of the population of these archipelagos have a clear community awareness of their historical and cultural singularity, and of their potential for development.
With the celebration of this I Summer School of Micronesia, the aim is to promote an exchange of knowledge around this concept in order to promote better knowledge and greater collaboration among the inhabitants of the Macaronesian archipelagos, especially among young people.
This forum for the knowledge of the new generations of Macaronesia also seeks to promote reflection on the challenges faced by the archipelagos of the Mid-Atlantic within the framework of the current globalization process; facilitate the meeting between academics, entrepreneurs and professionals interested in development and inter-archipelagic strategic cooperation; create a Macaronesian community awareness based on a shared historical-cultural imaginary, as well as promote the creation of a Macaronesian community of knowledge and learning.
SIX SEMINARS.
In total there will be six seminars in which more than 20 technical experts will participate, addressing different aspects related to culture, science and developing economic sectors, among other topics. On Monday the cycle of seminars programmed by Gómez Soliño will begin with ‘Macaronesia: present, past and future of a concept’; later it will be the turn of Ángel Llorente, jurist and magistrate, with ‘The insertion of Macaronesia in the European legal framework’; The morning will close with a round table that will address the political-institutional perspective.
In the afternoon, Avelino de Freitas de Meneses, professor and former rector of the University of the Azores, will speak about ‘Gaspar Frutuoso, historian of the Azores and Macaronesia’; He will be followed by Ana Viña Brito, professor of Medieval History at the ULL, with the exhibition ‘Nesology and globalization: the Macaronesian islands at the beginning of colonization’; María Teresa Duarte de Jesus Gonçalvez do Nascimiento, a specialist in literary history from the University of Madeira, will present ‘A insulana, primeira epopeia de Madeira’; The day will close with ‘Researching in Atlantic Islands: the experience of the university doctoral program in the Atlantic Islands’ by Santiago de Luxán Meléndez, Professor of History and Economic Institutions at the ULPGC. On Tuesday the scholarship holders will participate in a tour of the Teide National Park.
On Wednesday, starting at 10:00, the sessions will resume with ‘Globalization, health and solidarity in Macaronesia’ by Basilio Valladares Hernández, professor of Parasitology and emeritus professor at ULL and president of FUNCCET. He will be followed by Rubén Bueno Mario, technical director of Retokil Vector Control, with ‘How to stop the expansion of tropical diseases in Macaronesia’; The morning will be closed by Manuel Herrera Artiles, General Director of Public Health of the Canary Islands, with the presentation ‘Coordination of alerts against invading pathogens in Macaronesia’.
In the afternoon, María de Anunciaçiao Mateus Ventura, from the Bioisla group of the University of the Azores, will present ‘Nature and tourism: how to make the two Macaronesian Islands compatible’; Following this topic, María Eugenia Arozena Concepción from the ULL, will speak about ‘Laurisilva, a distinctive element of the Macaronesian landscape’; It will end with a visit to the Macizo de Anaga Rural Park.
On Thursday, a special day with a visit to Loro Parque and its foundation, the scholarship students will learn about the project ‘IMPLAMAC: evaluation of the impact of microplastics and emerging pollutants in Macaronesia’, led by Javier Hernández Borges, from the Institute of Tropical Diseases and Public Health of the Canary Islands. Subsequently, there will be a presentation of the project ‘Can BIO: climate change and protection of marine species in the Macaronesian region’, by Javier Almunia Portolés, director of Loro Parque Fundación.
The last day, Friday, will begin with a tour, led by Francisco García-Talavera Casañas, a geologist, paleontologist and writer, through Portuguese surnames in the Canary Islands. He will be followed by Dolores Corbella Díaz, professor of Romance Philology at the ULL, member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Language, who will speak on ‘The Portuguese lexical imprint on the Spanish of the Canary Islands’; He will be followed by María do Céu Amaral Fortes de Fraga Amaral, professor at the University of Cape Verde, with ‘Macaronesia: o feitiço das ilhas’; Urbano Bettencourt Machado, poet and writer from the Azores, will talk about ‘As islhas: encruzilhadas do mar’ and Maximiano Trapero Trapero, professor of Spanish Philology at the ULPGC, will close the cycle with ‘The Iberian ballads in Macaronesia’.
In parallel, a Macaronesian film festival will be held at the Aguere Cultural Center (Calle Herradores, 47) whose entrance will be a grotto until full capacity is reached. The sessions will be from this Sunday at 6:00 p.m., the rest of the shows from Monday to Thursday will be at 9:00 p.m.
