Santander (EFE).- The Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP) starts this Monday, June 19, its Santander summer courses with a look at the Spanish Presidency of the European Union, which will focus a large part of its programming, and with several nods to 23J, just over a month from those general elections.
New formats and the already traditional ones of these courses will come together in the Palacio de la Magdalena, which for 90 years has seen personalities from all walks of life pass through its classrooms, who have starred in the activities and seminars of this summer university, which this year they exceed one hundred again.
This will be the second year of Carlos Andradas at the head of this academic institution, which will officially start these courses on Thursday, July 22, with a conference by one of the most prominent Spanish scientists, the director of the Altos Labs Institute of Sciences. , in San Diego (United States), Juan Carlos Izpisúa.
The European Union will be the subject of many of these summer seminars with the focus on July (when Spain assumes the Presidency) and only three days after the general elections, since from July 27 to 28 the 27 ministers meet at the UIMP Europeans of Science in the Compet council, of investigation.
Own names
That same week of July, the high representative of the UC for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, will be in La Magdalena, and the previous week his predecessor in office, Javier Solana, will visit the UIMP, as well as the former president of the Eurochamber Enrique Barón.
The vice president of the Central Bank, Luis de Guindos, will be there in August and before that, Joaquín Almunia and Miguel Árias Cañete will participate in these summer activities.
This week will open one of the most outstanding UIMP summer courses, that of the Association of Economic Information Journalists (APIE), the First Vice President of the Government and Minister of Economy, Nadia Calviño, with the head of BBVA, Carlos Torres, who will later be joined by the president of the CEOE, Aitor Garamendi, the leaders of the UGT and CCOO, Pepe Álvarez and Unai Sordo, the governor of the Bank of Spain, Pablo Hernández de Cos, and the president of CaixaBank, José Ignacio Goirigolzarri.
And one of the first UIMP seminars will also feature Almudena Grandes, whose figure will be remembered in a course directed by her editor, Juan Cerezo (Tusquests), on the writer’s “heart and commitment”, and to whom Her husband, the poet, Luis García Montero, attends.
As has been the case for 35 years, the UIMP will present its Menéndez Pelayo International Award, this time to the writer from Santander Álvaro Pombo, but Alejandro Amenabar will also be awarded, with the Cinematography award, and José Luis Gómez, with that of “La Barraca ”.
The writer Siri Hustvedt, who will be in charge of closing these summer courses in September, will be named Doctor Honoris Causa by the UIMP, as will the Mexican historian Orlando Figes.
By Pablo Ayerbe Caselles.