The Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) is pleased to receive the ‘Seed Funding Initiatives’ grant from the ‘2024 Alliance Sustainability and Social Responsibility: Nature Positive Cities‘. This Western Sydney University (WSU) project aims to foster collaboration between Alliance member institutions and generate impact through localized place-based projects that focus on the sustainable urban development of cities and address the issue of ‘Positive cities for nature’.
The UPV responded to the call launched by WSU with the program ‘BIO & URBE, discover biodiversity on the UPV campus!‘ action, coordinated by Professor Víctor Gallego of the Department of Animal Science.
This action aims to highlight the biodiversity of the UPV Vera campus. The Vera campus is in a privileged location as a natural environment due to their proximity to the countryside and the sea, with numerous green areas that are home to numerous species of flora and fauna. A large part of the university community will be involved, including students of Wildlife Management, Biodiversity, Ecology, and Zoology. The initiative will provide environmental education workshops (EEW) on urban biodiversity, a biodiversity assessment, and two scientific activities focused on birds (banding) and bats (ultrasound detection and census), bringing science closer to people.
The funded action will be developed in the following months, and the results will be presented at the virtual International Symposium organized by WSU on October 9, 2024.
The Green Transition Area Directorate and the Environment Unit manage this initiative.