Elon Musk hopes to revolutionise public transport with Hyperloop – a system capable of speeds of more than 1200 kilometres per hour with zero emissions.
Musk’s company Space X is running a student competition to advance the technology.
Hyperloop UPV, a team from the Politechnical University of Valencia in Spain, are working round the clock testing all the key components of their pod, which they hope will propel them to victory.
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Yesterday, January 25, we inaugurated in the Hall of the Casa de l’Alumne the photo exhibition “Inspira el Cambio”, organized by the NGO Manos Unidas Valencia. It portrays stories of people from all over the world who take measures to care for our planet and the people who live in it, through sustainable models of consumption and production of food and energy.
From 4 to 5 October at the UPV different events will be held to celebrate the Welcome Party.
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From Monday 22 to May 26, you will be able to see in the lobby of the first floor of the Student’s Recreation Center the poster exhibition and the photographic exhibition “Snapshots of cooperation” by students of the UPV who enjoyed the scholarship Which was offered by the Center for Development Cooperation.
In addition, on May 26 the CDC organizes in the Student House the annual meeting of projects and practices of development cooperation where scholarship students can tell their experience among other activities.
For more information:
http://www.upv.es/entidades/CCD/infoweb/ccd/info/996684normalc.html
Today 17 May is International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.
This day was born as a celebration of the elimination of homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses and as a way of combating discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Mau Monleón with his students bring us from the subject Tactics of intervention of public art an exhibition from May 16 to May 26 in the lobby of the second floor.
The exhibition deals with issues such as identity, new urban spaces, the mandates of heterotopic genres that are provoking globalization or censored homosexuality.
Today May 4 in the hall of the Student’s Recreation Center at 12: 00h the Councilor for Training and Employment of the City of Valencia Sandra Gomez will expose us the new proposals that are being carried out in Youth Employment, such as free English courses To children under 30, among others.
El Salto a proposal where more than 20 united media collaborate for a free and quality journalism only financed by the people. On May 3, on World Press Freedom Day, this group presented its project at the Student’s Recreation Center.
+ information:
http://saltamos.net/
The 25th of April in the Ximo Mora Room of the Student’s Recreation Center we attend a sample of percussion, dance, gastronomy and intercultural conversation with the purpose of knowing and approaching both the artistic and social sphere of Africa.
This activity was coordinated by Faty Dembel as representative of Ker Casa África and Rosa Ma. Martínez of the Department of Audiovisual Communication, Documentation and History of Art.
Until May 2 you can visit in the north vestibule of the ground floor of the Student’s Recreation Center an itinerant exhibition about the life of Isabel de Villena as well as her achievements and the sociocultural context in which she lived.
