It will be held next Tuesday, April 25, in the Aula Magna of the Paraninfo Building, Plaza Basilio Paraíso, 4, and aims to provide an overview of the role of Public Administrations in relation to the 2030 Agenda and the main tools for aligning and integrating said Agenda, at the state, regional, and municipal levels; as well as exploring their possibilities for collaboration with the private sector.

Attendees at the event will be able to learn from different perspectives about both the current actions and future strategies of public administrations to be reflected in contracting conditions. The Mariano López Navarro Chair at the University of Zaragoza will hold the conference “CONTRIBUTION FROM PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION TO THE 2030 AGENDA IN CIVIL ENGINEERING AND BUILDING CONSTRUCTION” on April 25th in the Aula Magna of the Paraninfo Building, Plaza Basilio Paraíso, 4.

The forum will provide an overview of the role of Public Administrations in relation to the 2030 Agenda and the main tools for aligning and integrating said Agenda at the national, regional, and municipal levels; it will also explore opportunities for collaboration with the private sector.

Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Location: Main Auditorium of the Paraninfo Building, Plaza Basilio Paraíso, 4

Registration: http://catedramln.com/inscripcion-jornada/

Panel 1: Contribution from Public Administration to the 2030 Agenda in Public Works and Roads

Moderator: Ricardo Barceló Lostes, Deputy Director of El Periódico de Aragón

Sandra de Francisco Méndez, Head of the State Highways Division in Aragón
Bizén Fuster Santaliestra, Director General of Roads, Government of Aragón
Albert Gros Mascarilla, Director of Civil Works at GRUPO MLN
Start time: 10:00 AM

Panel 2: Contribution from Public Administration to the 2030 Agenda in Building and Urban Planning

Moderator: Luis H. Menéndez, Head of Economics at Heraldo de Aragón

José Mª Ruiz de Temiño, Managing Director at Zaragoza Housing, Zaragoza City Council.

Miguel Ángel Abadía Iguacen, General Coordinator of the Urban Planning and Sustainability Area, Zaragoza City Council.

Carlos González Martínez, Director of the Technical Construction Unit at the University of Zaragoza.
Inmaculada Cugat Estrada, General Secretary of the Confederation of Construction Companies of Aragon.
Start time: 11:30 a.m.

2030 Agenda and Mobility

In September 2015, more than 150 heads of state and government met at the historic Sustainable Development Summit and adopted the 2030 Agenda, which contains the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. This session will focus more specifically on SDG 11, “Sustainable Cities and Communities,” which aims to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.

Currently, there is a firm commitment from the public sector to sustainable development, and efforts are underway across all sectors to provide training, tools, and resources that foster the exchange of ideas, initiatives, and best practices among the various public administrations (national, regional, local, universities, etc.) and the private sector.

At our Chair, we believe that public policies must also be enriched by knowledge transfer, reflection, research, and analysis, which is made possible in spaces such as the Mariano López Navarro Chair of Civil Engineering and Building Construction.

For this reason, we have decided to organize a conference to explore the role of Public Administrations in relation to the 2030 Agenda and the main tools for aligning and integrating said Agenda at the national, regional, and municipal levels, as well as to explore opportunities for collaboration with the private sector.

Mariano López Navarro Chair of Civil Engineering and Building Construction

The Mariano López Navarro Chair of Civil Engineering and Building Construction aims to strengthen collaboration between universities, businesses, and government agencies to share synergies and strategies that support and facilitate research and knowledge transfer throughout the country. It also promotes the dissemination of advances, studies, and insights that can help government agencies make decisions aligned with the goals of the 2030 Agenda.