The employers of the International Excellence Campus of the University of Cádiz have unanimously approved the incorporation of the consortium and have highlighted the promotion of socioeconomic development of the province of Cádiz And his commitment to innovation and the blue economy
The F.CEI · Mar (Campus Foundation of International Sea Excellence) has held an extraordinary session of its Board of Trustees on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, whose main point has been the incorporation as a member of the Consortium of the Free Zone of Cádiz, a public institution that encourages the socio -economic development of the province.
The inclusion of Free Zone of Cádiz has been approved with the support of the Board of Trustees. This integration will allow the CEI · Mar Foundation to reinforce its links with the business field, thanks to the proximity to the industrial group that this institution brings together, helping it to fulfill, thus, with one of its primary objectives, such as the creation of an academic, scientific, cultural, researcher and innovation environment, in favor of the technological transfer and knowledge generated to the industry and society.
This link is even more remarkable, if possible, thanks to the commitment of both entities with the development of activities for the impulse of R & D+I and the sectors of the blue economy. Example of this, Incubazul, the first high -tech incubator in the blue sector of Spain, developed by Zona Franca de Cádiz, in which ideas and projects related to seas and oceans are promoted.
CEI · Mar and the Consortium of the Free Zone of Cádiz find as a point of union, in this way, their commitment to the contribution of innovative solutions to increase the competitiveness of the territory where its work takes place, with special focus on inclusive and sustainable growth.
This has been pointed out during this extraordinary Board of Trustees, the main representatives of both agencies. For its part, Casimiro Tencl, rector of the University of Cádiz (UCA) and president of the CEI · Mar Foundation (governance body of the Excellence Campus), who has presided over the meeting, has defined this union as: “very positive, helping to take advantage of not only the lines of action channeled in the same direction, but also the individual strengths of each entity, now put in the service of a common good. Part, contributes to reinforce one of the priority ecosystems of the University of Cádiz: the Maritime, by the hand of fundamental actors in the province, and that, in the same way, it comes to enhance the CEI · sea consortium in its entirety, and to the rest of the entities that make it up. We inaugurate. ”
On the other hand, Fran González, a special delegate of the State for the Free Zone of Cádiz, has stated that “this alliance is a continuation and a reinforcement to the collaboration that we have already been carrying out with the University of Cádiz and that led us to celebrate jointly last November the Blue Zone Forum-Innovazul 2024, the great blue economy event, which Cádiz became who gathered national and international experts.
The session, held in a hybrid way, has also had the face -to -face assistance of Carmen Garrido, scientific coordinator of CEI · Mar and member of the Foundation Executive Commission; Eva Mena, director-manager of the CEI · Mar Foundation; María Jesús Ortega, Vice Chancellor for Research and Transfer of the UCA and member of the Foundation Executive Commission; and Carmen Camelo, Vice Chancellor for Entrepreneurship and Employability of the UCA. Online, José Manuel Fedriani, Coordinator of Incubazul, and multiple representatives of the CEI · Mar Patrons has been followed up.
The Blue Zone Forum - Innovazul 2024 event materialized, for the first time, the collaboration between the Campus of Excellence and the public institution. His good results, whose efforts added the organizational collaboration of the University of Cádiz, marked a clear path of synergy in which he has been working since then. The consortium of the Free Zone of Cádiz and the "Expertise" that contributes to the CEI · Mar aggregation enhances the role of the Excellence Campus as a blue economy hub in southern Europe. This union, at the same time, expands the scope of action, both geographical and sectoral, of both organisms.
