Program – Technical Speakers

BRIDGE to AFRICA - 03 Technical speakers. ULPGC. Stone Hall of the ULPGC headquarters

20-25 MAY. 2024

Lugar: Rectorado de la Universidad de La Palmas (Calle Juan de Quesada, 30)

11:30    Technical Speakers/ Environmental Axis. Stone Hall, ULPGC HQ.

ULPGC researchers on Africa.

  • 11:30 Javier Arístegui, Full Prof. UNESCO Chair in Marine and Coastal Sustainability, ULPGC
  • 11:40 Ricardo Haroun, Director of the Institute ECOAQUA, ULPGC.
  • 11:50 Vicente Mirallave, Prof. Hon. ULPGC.

Guest   Speakers on Africa

  • 12:00 Baltasar Peñate, Head of ITC Water Department.
  • 12:10 Deukhoon (Peter) Han, Center for International Development Cooperation. Korea Maritime Institute (KMI).

Networks on Africa

  • 12:20 UNWAM network, Lluís Serra, Rector
  • 12:30 Institut Catalunya Africa. Antonio Pérez-Portabella, Presidente.
  • 12:40 UVAÁFRICA Observatorio de Estudios Africano (Universidad de Valladolid).
  • 12:50 GEA. Grupo de Estudios Africanos (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
  • 13:00 GESA. Grupo de Estudios de las Sociedades Africanas (Universidad de Barcelona).
  • 13:10 Grupo de Estudios Africanos (Universidad de La Laguna)
  • 13:20 Compostela Group of Universities. Istvan Tarrosy, Executive Committee.
  • 13:30 ERUA Alliance. Sophie Wauquier (Université Paris 8).

Companies on Africa

  • 13:40 Elmasa Tecnología del Agua, S.A.U.

ONG on Africa

  • 13:50 FARRAH foundation. Pepi Farray, CEO and Director.

           

 

         

Lugar: Rectorado de la Universidad de La Palmas (Calle Juan de Quesada, 30)

09:00    Technical Speakers/ Environmental Axis. Stone Hall, ULPGC HQ.

ULPGC researchers on Africa.

  • 9:00 Lluís Serra, UNESCO Chair of Research, Planning and Development of Local Health Systems.
  • 9:10 Luis López Rivero, Prof. ULPGC
  • 9:20 Fina Ramal, Prof. ULPGC.
  • 09:30 Gercende Courtois, Researcher ECOAQUA, ULPGC.
  • 09:40 Félix Acosta, Researcher ECOAQUA, ULPGC.

Guest Speakers on Africa

  • 09:50 María del Mar Rodríguez, Director of the Centre for Cooperation with Africa of the Spanish Red Cross in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
  • 10:00 Ana Corujo, Technical Advisor for Africa and the Middle East, Internationalisation Unit. SEPIE.
  • 10:10 Arnauld Regnauld, Vice-rector for research of University of Paris 8.
  • 10:20 Radosław Stanczewski, Director of the Office for International Cooperation, SWPS University.
  • 10:30 Paulo Speller, Rector of AAUCA, Guinea Ecuatorial
  • 10:40 Filiberto Ntutumu Nguema Nchama, Rector of the Universidad Nacional de Guinea Ecuatorial

Networks on Africa

  • 10:50 Africa Research Centre of the University of Pecs. Istvan Tarrosy

Companies on Africa

  • 12:00 ONGAWA, Engineering for human development.

ONG on Africa

  • 12:10 Médicos del mundo. Elena Lugli, President.
  • 12:20 UNICEF. Maribel Monzón
  • 12:30 Ecca Social. Miguel Ongil  Head of projects and International Cooperation

         

Lugar: Rectorado de la Universidad de La Palmas (Calle Juan de Quesada, 30)

09:30   Technical Speakers/ Environmental Axis. Stone Hall, ULPGC HQ.

ULPGC researchers on Africa.

  • 09:10 Germán Santana, Prof. ULPGC.
  • 09:20 Daniel Castillo, Prof. ULPGC.
  • 09:30 Ezequiel Guerra y Beatriz Andreu, Prof. ULPGC.
  • 09:40 Desiderio García, Dir. of Cooperation, VIMPI, ULPGC.
  • 09:50 Carmen Márquez, Prof. ULPGC, Institute IATEX, ULPGC.

Guest Speakers on Africa

  • 10:00 İlhem Kallel, Prof. ISIMS, REGIM-Lab, University of Sfax, Tunisia
  • 10:10 Chiara Argenti, Supply Chain Officer WFP Logistics Base in Las Palmas de G.C.
  • 10:20 Catedra Sede UMH Ruanda. Lis Gaibar García, codirectora del a Cátedra Sede UMH en Ruanda
  • 10:30 José A. Moreno, member of the Immigration and Integration Group of the EU Economic and Social Council.
  • 10:40 Luis Padilla, General Director of Relations with Africa. Government of the Canary Islands.

Networks on Africa

  • 10:50 Grazia Vulcano, CIVIS Project Manager, Europe’s Civic University Alliance.
  • 11:30 SEJ-491: AFRICAInEs/ Research group and studies applied to development, University of Granada.
  • 11:40 Meryl Thiel, International University of Monaco, France.
  • 11:50 Johannes Maersk. University of Vienna.
  • 12:00 Luís Mancha San Esteban, Cátedra Unesco de Estudios Afroiberoamericanos  , Universidad Alcalá de Henares
  • 12:10 Amparo Sánchez, Cátedra UNESCO de Esclavitudes y Afrodescendencia, Amparo Sánchez Cobos, Universitat Jaume I.
  • 12:20 Ana Corujo, Asesora Técnica para África y Oriente Medio de la Unidad de Internacionalización, SEPIE.
  • 12:30 Frigdiano Álvaro Durántez, Dir. de Relaciones institucionales de la Fundación Universitaria Iberoamericana y de la Cátedra FUNIBER y Estudios Iberoamericanos y de la Iberofonía.

Companies on Africa

  • 12:40 Fundación Hermanos García

ONG on Africa

  • 12:50 Irene Bello, Alianza por la Solidaridad.
  • 13.00 Borja Monreal, Sic4chenge. Borja Monreal.
  • 13:10 Juan Carlos Lorenzo, CEAR in Canarias
  • 13:20 Daniel Bazán, Rotary Club Maspalomas.
  • 13:30 Khali Thiouné, CEO of Asociación Afrocanarias Diakhase
  • 13:40 Mame Cheikh Mbaye, CEO of FAAC.

 

         

Lugar: Rectorado de la Universidad de La Palmas (Calle Juan de Quesada, 30)

09:00   Technical Speakers/ Environmental Axis. Stone Hall, ULPGC HQ.

ULPGC researchers on Africa.

  • 09:00 Carmelo León, UNESCO Chair in Tourism and Sustainable Economic Development.
  • 09:10 Matías M. González, University Institute of Tourism and Sustainable Economic Development.
  • 09.20 Lidia Robiana, Researcher Institute of ECOAQUA, ULPGC.
  • 09:30 Marisol Izquierdo, Researcher Institute of ECOAQUA, ULPGC.
  • 09:40 Germán Santana, Coord. Master of Spanish-African Relations, ULPGC.
  • 09:50 Lúcas Pérez, Dir. Diploma of African Studies, ULPGC.
  • 10:00 liderAfrica, Marcela Iglesias Onofrio Vice-rector of Internationalisation UCA.
  • 10:10 BtA Centre and African Studies Group ULPGC.

Guest Speakers on Africa

  • 10:20 Moisés D. Santana, Managing Director of the Canary Islands Association of Startups, Technology-Based Companies and Angel Investors (Emerge).
  • 10:30 Francisco Marín, Director of International Cooperation, University of Huelva.
  • 10:40 Mohamed Lemine Fagel, l’Université de Nouakchott.

Networks on Africa

  • 10:50 SG-group/ Africa Think Tank
  • 11:30 CEAF Centro de Estudos Africanos, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas da Universidade de Lisboa (ISCSP-ULisboa), Portugal.
  • 11:40 Centro de Estudos Africanos da Universidade do Porto, Portugal.
  • 11:50 ILHÉUS, Afro-descendant Group (Brazil). Falvio Goncalves.
  • 12:00 Frigdiano Álvaro Durántez, Director of Institutional Relations of the Ibero-American University Foundation and the FUNIBER Chair in Ibero-American Studies and Iberophony.

Companies on Africa

  • 12:10  BINTER
  • 12:20 Klinguele. Embalajes Canarias. Guillermo Rodríguez.
  • 12:30 Zamakona yards Islas Canarias.
  • 12:40 La Caixa

ONG on Africa

  • 12:50 Intermon Oxfam