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Conference on the recovery after the DANA: The protection and prevention of flood risks

Nexus Building - UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA

29 MAY 2025 – 09.00h

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Progama

9:00 to 9:15h Reception of attendees

9:15 to 9:45h Opening session

  • Rector of the Polytechnic University of Valencia
  • Government of Spain authorities

9:45 -10:30h CEDEX studies to support the recovery of DANA

  • Antonio Jiménez Álvarez, Director of Water and Environment Studies, and David López Gómez, Director of Programs. Center of Hydrographic Studies of the CEDEX.

10:30 -11:15h Emergency work in progress and actions foreseen in the Recovery and Resilience Plan of the area affected by DANA.

  • Cristina Solá García, Water Commissioner, and Teodoro Estrela, Advisor to the Presidency. Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar
11:15 -11:45h Coffee break.

11:45 -12:30h Aid for the reconstruction of municipal infrastructures

  • D. Rafael Briet Seguí, General Director of Regional and Local Cooperation. Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory.

  • D. Francisco Javier Sánchez Martínez, Assistant Director-General for Water Protection and Risk Management. Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge.

12:30 -14:00h Resilient urbanism in the face of floods.

  • Mónica Aparicio Martín, deputy deputy director of the General Subdirectorate of Water Protection and Risk Management. Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge.
  • Sergio Mateo, Municipal Architect of Los Alcázares (Murcia).
  • Vicent García Nebot, Lawyer, specialist technician in Regional Planning and former General Director of Urban Planning of the Generalitat Valenciana. (*)
  • Gerardo Roger Fernández Fernández, Architect and expert in urban planning. (*)

(*) Members of the Committee of Experts on Reconstruction

15:15 -15:45h Science and Innovation in recovery plans.

  • Zulima Pérez Seguí. Professor of Constitutional Law UV and Adviser to the Secretary of State for Territorial Policy. Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory.

  • Elisa Rivera. General Director of Planning, Coordination and Knowledge Transfer. Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.

  • Eva Antonino Daviu. Professor and Director of the University Institute for Research in Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (ITEAM-UPV).

  • Manuel Pulido Velázquez. Professor and Director of the University Research Institute for Water Engineering and the Environment (IIAMA-UPV).

15:45 -17:30h Round table on climate change impacts on the water cycle

  • Jorge Olcina Cantos, Professor of Regional Geographic Analysis. University of Alicante.
  • María José Estrela Navarro, Chair of Geography. University of Valencia.
  • Enrique Cabrera Rochera, Professor of Fluid Mechanics. Polytechnic University of Valencia.

Members of the Committee of Experts on Reconstruction

17:30h Closing