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School of Forest Engineering of Pontevedra

School of Forest Engineering of Pontevedra

School in Pontevedra, Spain

The Forest Engineering School of Pontevedra is a university school founded in 1990 in the Spanish city of Pontevedra, based on the campus of A Xunqueira, in the north of the city.

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The faculty belongs to the Pontevedra Campus, integrated in the Galician University System and dependent on the University of Vigo. It offers undergraduate studies in Forestry Engineering.

History

The Forest Engineering School of Pontevedra was created in 1990 by Decree 416/1990 of 31 July of the Regional Ministry of Education, in its article 15, under the name of University School of Technical Engineers of Forest Industries. The same decree authorised the awarding of the degree of technical engineer of forestry industries to the school.[2]

The creation of the Forest Engineering School in the city is closely linked to the forestry tradition of Pontevedra. The city and the region of Pontevedra have been linked to the forestry sector since the first decades of the 20th century. The Biological Mission of Galicia was established in Pontevedra in 1928 and the Lourizán Forestry Centre had been located in Lourizán since 1943, when the Provincial Council of Pontevedra handed over the Lourizán Palace to the Ministry of Education to be used as a regional centre for teaching, research and forestry experiments, which became the Higher Technical School of Forestry in 1946.[3][4]

The first programme of the School of Forest Engineering at the University Campus of Pontevedra was adopted on 16 July 1991[5] and the school started to operate in the 1991–1992 academic year.

Initially, the school was temporarily housed in premises donated by the E.G.B.'s teacher training school (the former teacher training college near the Lérez River on Buenos Aires Avenue) and only moved to its definitive headquarters, a building of its own on the A Xunqueira campus, in 1996.[3] On 14 October 1995, the building, designed by the architect José Ramón Rúa Rodríguez, was almost finished and was the first building constructed on the A Xunqueira campus.[6][7]

In 1999, by Decree 216/1999, of 15 July, in its article 3, the school became the University School of Technical Forestry Engineering.[8] In 2011, by Decree 14/2011 of 3 February, the school was renamed School of Forest Engineering, a name it retains today.[9]

In 2019, the school's forest engineering degree became the fourth Galician university degree to obtain the international EUR-ACE quality label in engineering.[10]

Programmes

The school offers a Bachelor's degree in forest engineering.[6] The specialisations offered are forest industries and logging.

Facilities

The administrative services of the Pontevedra university campus and the documentation delivery and collection point (LERD) of the Galician university system are located in the School of Forest Engineering. The Erasmus Students Network organisation for Erasmus students also has a branch in Pontevedra located in the school.

Direction team

The director of the School of Forest Engineering is Juan Picos Martín and the assistant director is Mª Ángeles Cancela Carral. The secretary is José Manuel Casas Mirás.[11][12]

Activities

The school organises and hosts various activities such as the Galician Days of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity. In November 2019, the III Galician Days of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity took place at the school with different conferences on topics such as red tides, light pollution, conservation of species such as salamanders or bears, or forest and landscape management.[13]

Culture

The patron saint of the faculty is Saint Leander and the faculty celebrates his feast day in April.[14]

  • Main façade (west)
  • Southeast façade
  • Detail of the south façade
  • East and north façades and cycle lane

References

  1. [1]
    "Forestais, un abanico de salidas en un sector con gran potencial". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 4 March 2012.
  2. [2]
    "DECRETO 416/1990, de 31 de julio, por el que se crean centros y se concede autorización para implantar estudios conducentes a las titulaciones que se relacionan en el sistema universitario de Galicia". Diario Oficial de Galicia (in Spanish). 10 August 1990.
  3. [3]
    González, Oscar (13 December 1994). "El 'campus' provisional de Pontevedra". El País (in Spanish).
  4. [4]
    "Los Roteiros de Outono recalan en los pazos de Lourizán y Salcedo". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 21 October 2017.
  5. [5]
    "RESOLUCIÓN de 28 de febrero de 1992 de la Universidad de Vigo, por la que se ordena la publicación del plan de estudios conducente a la obtención del titulo de lngeniero Técnico en Industrias Forestales" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). 22 April 1992.
  6. [6]
    "Forestais, un abanico de salidas en un sector con gran potencial". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 4 March 2012.
  7. [7]
    "Buenas instalaciones y sinergias para paliar la falta de espacio". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 12 January 2016.
  8. [8]
    "DECRETO 216/1999, de 15 de julio, por el que se autoriza el cambio de denominación de determinados centros del sistema universitario de Galicia". Diario Oficial de Galicia (in Spanish). 26 July 1999.
  9. [9]
    "DECRETO 14/2011, do 3 de febreiro, polo que se suprime, se crea e se modifica a denominación de centros universitarios na Universidade de Vigo". Diario Oficial de Galicia (in Galician). 14 February 2011.
  10. [10]
    "Enxeñería Forestal, cuarto grado gallego con un sello internacional de excelencia". Diario de Pontevedra (in Spanish). 4 May 2019.
  11. [11]
    "La Xunta de Escuela confirma a Juan Picos como director de la Escuela de Ingeniería Forestal". Pontevedra Viva (in Spanish). 10 July 2017.
  12. [12]
    "Juan Picos: "Decir que el eucalipto arde más que otras especies de árboles no es verdad"". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 23 July 2017.
  13. [13]
    "La Escuela de Ingeniería Forestal de Pontevedra acoge este sábado las III Jornadas Gallegas de Patrimonio Natural". Galicia Press (in Spanish). 21 November 2019.
  14. [14]
    "La Escuela de Ingeniería Forestal celebra San Leandro". Pontevedra Viva (in Spanish). 11 April 2019.

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