Granada, November 30, 2023. The rector of the University of Granada, Pedro Mercado, and the mayor of Santa Fe, Juan Cobo, signed on Wednesday a collaboration protocol that provides for the transfer of the former 19th century Señor de la Salud sugar factory to the spinoff IberoLam Timber&Technology, created in 2022 by the Structural Wood Research Unit of Andalusia (UIMA) and promoted by the European project LIFE Wood for Future, led by the UGR.

On November 24, 50 students from the Institute of Secondary Education Arabuleila (Cúllar Vega) of the technological branch visited the facilities of the UIMA (Wood Research Unit of Andalusia) and the LIFE Wood for the Future project.

The coordinator of the LIFE Wood for the Future project, in its eagerness and objective to influence policies to improve the quality of life of citizens and the state of the Planet, had yesterday November 21 a working meeting with the Delegate of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development of the Junta de Andalucía in Granada, Ms. María del Carmen Reyes, along with her technical team. On the table the reactivation of the implementation of aid for poplar cultivation in the new CAP schemes.

100 students of the Instituto de Enseñanza Secundaria La Hispanidad de Santa Fe have known first hand the LIFe Wood for Future project through a talk by its coordinator, Prof. Antolino Gallego, today Tuesday, November 21, 2023.Starting from the history of poplar, a crop born nationally in Santa Fe through D. Diego Liñan in the late nineteenth century, Prof. Gallego has outlined the environmental benefits of poplar and the opportunity of this economic sector to return to the construction of our homes through structural technical wood products.

Professor Manuel Guaita, director of USC-Pemade, presented the model for the valorization of local wood in the structural products MCLam and MCLam BS at a conference organized by the Association of Wood Entrepreneurs of Navarra (ADEMAN).

Last Friday, November 3, and on the occasion of the forged on innovation Tecnofest-23, began to host the photographic exhibition of the poplars of Granada, winners and mentioned in the I Poplar Photography Contest of the Agrupación Marjal, the LIFE Wood for Future project and the Cívitas-UGR Chair 'Sustainability, Innovation and Development.

On October 28th, the coordinator of the LIFE Wood for Future project participated as a keynote speaker at a round table organized by the Granada-based company Audi Nucesa to promote mobility with electric vehicles. In it, Professor Antolino Gallego exposed the need to act, invest and promote the expansion of poplar groves, sustainable public transport and the use of electric cars, as efficient measures to combat pollution in the metropolitan area of Granada.

The School of Art of Guadix hosted yesterday Monday, October 9, the seminar 'The poplar, a source of environmental and cultural benefits', in which a dozen teachers, researchers and specialists have exposed the positive impact that this crop so rooted in the Accitan region has on biodiversity, air cleanliness and soil quality.

Some thirty students were trained in the assembly of wooden structures on September 29 and 30 at the ETS de Ingeniería de Edificación of the University of Granada by the large and experienced technical team of the Italian company Rothoblass.

Granada, September 27, 2023. During this month the restoration works of the Patio de la Capilla del Hospital Real, headquarters of the rectorate of the University of Granada (UGR), the great work that has allowed the 'resuscitation' of this emblematic architectural space, have been completed.