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The director for this edition of the School will be
Santos M. Ruesga Benito, Professor of Applied Economics
at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
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Experts and students will analyse existing and future
energy and environmental challenges over the course of
three days, taking the current economic model and
employment market as a reference.
Seville, 16 April 2012. At 7.00 pm today, the Focus-Abengoa
Foundation and Menéndez Pelayo International University
will hold the opening conference of the series entitled
"Renewable energy. Competitiveness. Employment", which once
again is being held as part of the Energy and Climate
Change School. The conference will be attended by Anabel
Morillo León, Director General of the Focus-Abengoa
Foundation; Antonio Miguel Bernal Rodríguez, President of
the Academic Council of UIMP-Seville and Professor of
History and Economic Institutions of the University of
Seville; Patrocinio Rodríguez Ramos, Director of UIMP in
Seville, and Santos M. Ruesga Benito, Professor of Applied
Economics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and
Director of this new edition of the School. Manuel Sánchez
Ortega, CEO of Abengoa, will today give the opening
conference entitled, "Energy model, a question of ethics
and economics".
The Hospital de los Venerables, headquarters of the
Focus-Abengoa Foundation, will host various speakers and
round tables until Wednesday 18 April, in which experts and
students will analyse relations between the energy sector
and the employment market in order to identify common areas
to improve the productivity of Spanish companies.
This year the Energy and Climate Change School will have a
total of 40 university students. The Director of this
edition, Santos M. Ruesga Benito, said, "If there is
something that economic analysts agree on about the future
of the Spanish economy, it is about the need for it to
evolve towards a production model based on rules that are
radically different from the past. Rules that must
materialise in a production structure with an outstanding
capacity to compete abroad or - put another way - to
generate significant increases in domestic productivity,
independent of the economic outlook. This will require a
highly efficient renewable energy sector and an adequate
supply of human capital, aspects that will be at the heart
of the 2012 edition of the Energy and Climate Change
School".
The principal objective of the Energy and Climate Change
School, which is the result of a collaboration agreement
between the Focus-Abengoa Foundation and Menéndez Pelayo
International University, is to offer a progressive
institutional and scientific perspective about the
potential role of various technologies and policies in the
regional, national and international future of energy.
The Focus-Abengoa Forum on Energy and Climate Change aims
to use public discussions to promote a genuine open
platform for the research, presentation and debate of ideas
and results through actions that it believes are relevant
at any given time, based on the nature of the issues to be
analysed.
Entry to the opening address and all the other sessions is
free while space is available.
Renewable energy. Competitiveness. Employment. Energy and
Climate Change School.
Tuesday 17 April
10.00 am
Employment market and energy in terms of the
competitiveness of Spanish companies.
Santos M. Ruesga Benito
12.00 pm
Training as a key factor for competitiveness in a
globalised world.
Mariano Baratech Ramírez
5.30 pm
Labour reform, competitiveness and business
productivity.
Jesús Cruz Villalón
6.30 pm
Round table: Innovative sectors in the employment market in
Spain.
Coordinator: José Luis Martín Navarro
Participants: Santos M. Ruesga, Jesús Cruz, Mariano
Baratech
Wednesday 18 April
10.00 am
The contribution of renewable energy to changing the
production model in Spain.
Natalia Fabra Portela
11.00 am
Competitiveness and employment.
José María O'Kean
12.30 pm
Round table: The energy sector and the competitiveness of
the Spanish economy.
Coordinator: José Luis Galán
Participants: Natalia Fabra, José María O'Kean, Valeriano
Ruiz
5.00 pm
The renewable energy sector in Andalusia
Valeriano Ruiz Hernández
6.00 pm
Closing conference: The road to competitiveness of the
Spanish production system
Antón Costas Comesaña
7.00 pm
Closing ceremony
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