Rancho Texas and the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria have recently signed a Framework Agreement for collaboration for the development of joint action programs of an academic and research nature.
The Rector of the University, Don Rafael Robaina Romero, and Don Nicolás López Ramírez, manager of Rancho Texas Lanzarote Park, were responsible for sealing this agreement by which both institutions establish a close relationship of collaboration and joint work in research and academic projects.
As stated in the text of the agreement, "the desire of both parties is to establish close collaboration in order to promote compliance with the common goals entrusted to them." Likewise, the agreement maintains that the new relationship will "allow better use of available resources and greater efficiency."
Thanks to this agreement, which aims to develop and disseminate education and scientific and technological research, students from the faculties of Biology, Veterinary Medicine, and Marine Sciences will be able to carry out internships at the Lanzarote center, and participate in the various research and conservation programs related to the marine environment and the animal world that are launched.
The agreement also contemplates the training and improvement of teachers and researchers, and it is explicitly stated that both entities will plan and carry out joint studies and research.
The students will have the advice of the Park's Animal Welfare and Conservation Committee, established some time ago, made up of university professors, biologists, veterinarians, and the center's coordinators.
The head of Rancho Texas Lanzarote Park positively values the signing of the agreement with the University and emphasizes that "it is an important step in the line of work that we have set for ourselves for some time under the principles of conservation, education, research, and awareness." At the same time, he points out that "it is an opportunity to contribute to the development of knowledge and research at the University."
Upcoming opening of the Environmental Classroom
Precisely, on April 22, the inauguration of the Environmental Classroom is planned at the Rancho Texas Lanzarote Park facilities. A divulgative space dedicated to the marine environment, equipped with the most advanced audiovisual technology. The classroom immerses the visitor in the seabed of the archipelago and takes them from the first underwater eruptions to the present day.
