Category: Activities 2023-2024

Today, May 21, 2024, the provisional list for the Artistic Creation Contest at the Casa del Alumno has been published.

Link to the signed PDF: Click here

The deadline for corrections is May 31st at 11:59 PM.

Starting today, the Snapshots of Cooperation photo exhibition can be visited on the first floor of the Student Recreation Center.

It showcases photographs taken by students who have participated in various scholarships and mobility programs in collaboration with the CCD (Center for Development Cooperation) of UPV.

The aim of this exhibition is for viewers to witness projects that have a real impact on communities around the world.

This week, starting May 20th, the European HIV Testing Week is being celebrated. To mark this occasion, members of AVACOS-H (Valencian Association of HIV, AIDS, and Hepatitis) have set up a stand on the ground floor of the Student Recreation Center to provide information about rapid HIV tests as well as to distribute protective materials and pamphlets.

The first preliminary sessions for the grand final of the Olympic Robot Challenge have already begun, the largest robotics competition held at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. In this competition, participants will have to build a robot from scratch to compete in various tests.

This year, the event is supported by major companies such as HP or Power Electronics.

Finally, on Thursday, May 16, the final event of the competition took place, where the participating teams were able to demonstrate their skills. Various circuits and challenges were set up that the different robots built by the students had to overcome to be declared winners of the event.

The competition was broadcast live on the Makers Upv YouTube channel (one of the event organizers). You can watch the broadcast at the following link: click here.

Last Wednesday, May 8th, the DreamBig hackathon took place in the Ximo Mora room of the Student Recreation Center. This is a 3-hour idea competition in which the best selected teams will travel to Madrid to participate in the ImaginPlanet Challenge, an event where the winners will have the opportunity to travel to Silicon Valley in California to develop their idea.

The event had broad participation, with all offered spots filled.

“United in Diversity”

Europe Day, celebrated every 9th of May, commemorates peace and unity in Europe. This date marks the anniversary of the historic Schuman Declaration, in which Schuman outlined his vision for a new form of political cooperation in Europe, making war between European nations unthinkable. Schuman’s proposal is considered the beginning of what is now the European Union.

The Student Recreation Center joins in the celebration of this day by raising the EU flag, decorating the building, and distributing promotional materials. If you’d like to pick up any of these materials, visit the Student Recreation Center information point, and take a photo at the photo booth.

Information Point Schedule: 09:00 – 21:00

EU Symbols

European Commission Spain

Some photos of the students who joined in the celebration of Europe Day:

Last Thursday, May 2nd, the hackathon “Design a Store That Can Conquer You” took place in the Ximo Mora room of the Student Recreation Center, organized by the UPV in collaboration with the Chamber of Commerce CONFECOMERÇ, which is the Confederation of Commerce of the Valencian Community and has around 10,000 local retail stores associated with it.

This activity was aimed at young people belonging to Generation Z (born from 1997 to 2012) and featured cash prizes for the winners.

For three consecutive weeks, the Valencian Climate Assembly has taken place at the Ximo Mora Hall of the Student Recreation Center bringing together different young people every Saturday with the aim of discussing and dialoguing about the measures to be implemented to halt the progress of climate change.

The Valencian Climate Assembly gathers over 30 young people aged between 16 and 35 from 16 different municipalities in the Valencian Community. This project aims to provide training in various subjects to these individuals, such as energy, transportation, ecofeminism, agri-food, and society. Subsequently, the assembly members themselves will make a series of proposals on how to mitigate the impact of climate change, proposals that we intend to convey to local, regional, and national political representatives.

This activity is supported by Ayuda en Acción, Las Naves, the Network of Ambassadors of the European Climate Pact, the Youth Council of Valencia, and the Center for Development Cooperation of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, with funding from the GLOCAL program.

Last Friday, April 19h, the Music Sessions organized by the EMC (Contemporary Music Ensemble of the UPV) were held on the ground floor of the Student Recreation Center, a group of Spontaneous Generation focused on current music and the organization of various events and activities around this theme.

These sessions are small concerts aimed at serving as a showcase for emerging musical artists from the university environment to make themselves known.

Last Friday, the attending audience had the opportunity to enjoy several artists who performed different pieces. On one hand, Enma Alvear performed solo, and on the other hand, the duo Estrella Binaria.

On April 24th, in the Ximo Mora Room at the Casa del Alumno, a maphaton (a gathering to map an area) organized by participants of the Criteria Taronja project will be held, where discussions on perceptions of safety on the streets of Valencia will take place.

Criteria Taronja is a geoportal project aimed at preventing incidents of gender-based violence in urban public spaces. This geoportal is the result of research conducted by the geospatial technologies research group at the Polytechnic University of Valencia.

You can find more information about the project by clicking here!

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Below, you can see photographs of the event as well as related information:

Explanation video of the project: Click Here