The official opening ceremony was attended by the director general of Culture, Carmen Diaz, the vice-rector of Teaching and Research Staff of the UMA, Yolanda Garcia, the academic director of the area of Research, Employment and Enterprise of the General Foundation of the UMA, Antonio Maria Lara, the head of institutions in Almeria, Malaga and Melilla of Banco Santander, and the area director of Western Malaga Cajamar, Ángeles Arias.

The courses in Marbella include lectures by leading figures from different fields such as the former national football player Vicente del Bosque, the prosecutor Flor de Torres, the political analyst Antón Losada, the professor and columnist Manuel Arias Maldonado, the expert in technology and Big Data Elena Neira or the professor of Criminal Law and Criminology Esther Giménez-Salinas. They, together with other prestigious specialists and experts of various subjects, will be in charge of examining topics such as radicalization in our society and the risks that this phenomenon entails, housing for tourist use with the consequent transformation of this sector and sexual diversity. Finally, it will reflect on children’s rights, water use and sustainable development in the context of climate change and television series, focusing on new fiction productions and digital platforms.

Díaz thanked the UMA and its foundation, which is in charge of organising the workshops, “for continuing to bet on Marbella with more courses and more presence”. “It is great news to have the University of Malaga in our city summer after summer and already eleven, since the first edition in 2008,” said the Director General of Culture, who stressed that “our work as a public institution is to facilitate as much as possible the stay of the UMA in the municipality during this week.

Source: Marbella City Council