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The Mayor of Dénia is committed to a university campus in the city that revolves around gastronomic education

February 13 from 2019 - 09: 29

The students of the Gastronomy degree that the University of Alicante teaches for the first year have finished their fifteen-day stay in Dénia, where they have come into contact with traditional and creative cuisine and have known the agri-food sector of the Marina Alta.

It is the first step of the city of Dénia in the field of university education since it became the seat of the University of Alicante, which from the capital of the region is intended to become the way for Dénia to have a university campus .

So it moved the mayor, Vicent Grimalt, the rector of the university, Manuel Palomar, during the closing of the practices of the students of the degree of Gastronomy in the CDT.

Grimalt is committed to an agreement between institutions so that Dénia can host a university campus specializing in gastronomy. The mayor encouraged the University and Turisme Comunitat Valenciana to make a firm commitment to Dénia and move towards the creation of this university campus.

The students of the Gastronomy degree do their first cooking practices in Dénia

The more than fifty students of this first course of the degree of Gastronomy have attended a course in Dénia that has brought them closer to the practice of cooking for the first time. They have done it in the CdT Marina Alta classrooms thanks to their tutors and trainers from the Dénia center. In addition, they have participated in a program of extra-academic activities organized, at the request of the University of Alicante, by the Office of Innovation and Creativity of the City of Dénia.

The rector of the University of Alicante, Manuel Palomar, held last Thursday a meeting with the students of the degree, who encouraged them to take the opportunity that has been presented to them to come into contact with a unique territory and cuisine; a fact that, in his opinion, gives greater value to the learning that they are receiving in the classrooms. The rector highlighted the bet "For higher education in gastronomy as a tool for the future for society, which will allow us to have professionals capable of facing any challenge that the future holds in a field that we know will be key in a sector such as tourism".

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