New UAlg students travel 8 kilometers in integration activity

The initiative started at 15:00 at the Gambelas Campus and ended at Praia de Faro

30 new students from the University of Algarve (UAlg), of various nationalities, participated in an integration activity, last Saturday, September 24, which included an 8 kilometer walk, with the opportunity to get to know the Ria Formosa, enjoy works of art and understand the science in the study of the seahorse. 

The initiative started at 15:00 in the Campus de Gambelas and ended at Praia de Faro.

Alexandra Teodósio, Vice-Dean for Internationalization and Sustainable Development, underlines the importance of this type of activities, which promote a healthy and sustainable integration of students in the Academy.

«It is about creating alternatives at UAlg to a more solidary and democratic inclusion of newcomers to the region, or just newcomers to our University. In this way, they benefit from the possibility of getting to know the fields, making friends with colleagues from different courses and in a multilingual environment, all in favor of environmental and social sustainability in the future», he says.

This initiative, part of a wide range of activities promoted by UAlg to welcome and integrate new students, also had the participation of some teachers, researchers and employees of UAlg.

The Regional Directorate for the Conservation of Nature and Forests in the Algarve was also represented by Ana Margarida Leal Magalhães.

Notal, there were five panels, between the Campus from Gambelas-Ludo-Praia de Faro (signed by QR Code).

This action also contributed to the cleaning of the trail, where items were collected, mainly plastic, the same material used by Bordalo II in the notes he made on the Cavalo Marinho works, both in Gambelas and in the campsite at Praia de Faro.

Integrated in the UAlg Hippocampus are, with special relevance, the projects hipposave e feed, whose main objectives are the knowledge, protection and conservation of the species, as well as the awareness of the general and school public about the problem and impact of Plastic in the Ocean, and the need to reduce it through collective and individual actions of accountability.

 

 

Comments

Ads