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Raul Garcia Hemonnet
The rector, Javier Ramos, inaugurated the 2023/2024 academic year this morning in an Academic Event held in the Rectorate building on the Móstoles campus.
Ramos has called on the university community to be “protagonists of progress” in a world that is undergoing changes and that is “giving birth to a new society” and wanted to convey that the course that is now beginning is “a unique course on which the future depends.” future of this and the following generations.” Javier Ramos has called for the commitment of each of the groups that make up the Rey Juan Carlos University to guarantee that "the daily lives of our students and the generation of their children."
The rector has given as an example two of the challenges facing today's society, such as the emergence of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and genetic editing. He has pointed out that both of them “transform and will transform our lives completely.” In this sense, he has indicated that “the current dynamics of scientific and technical milestones test our values when it comes to assuming it. We live in a time in which progress that previously took half a century to materialize can now be done in half a year.”
“The solutions start here”
Faced with XNUMXst century challenges such as those mentioned above or many others such as geopolitical conflicts, resource scarcity or the energy crisis, Ramos has pointed out that the “solutions begin here: in the university, in the laboratories, in the classrooms where question every morning the limits that were established the night before.”
In the sense of devising innovative solutions to the challenges of the present and the future, the rector recalled, as one of the main milestones for the URJC in the 22/23 academic year, the fact that the European Commission officially granted EULIST the title of “European University Alliance” with funds worth more than 14 million euros.
Likewise, Ramos recalled the importance of weaving networks of shared interests with the institutional actors in the closest environment, both with the municipalities in which the URJC has its headquarters and with the regional government.
Gathering of enthusiasm
The rector has pointed out, paraphrasing J. Robert Oppenheimer, that in the daily work of the university community “what we should never lack is enthusiasm.” In this sense, he called on all groups at the Rey Juan Carlos University to “gather their enthusiasm”; be it the students, “raw material of the factory of the future that is the university”, the PDI with the “not easy mission of reconciling clarity with depth” and the PTGAS, on which he stopped by pointing out the importance of the processes of stabilization and functionalization, of which he highlighted “the significance for the future of the institution of having completed them successfully,” said Ramos.
As at every beginning of the course, the rector's speech was preceded by an inaugural lesson, which, on this occasion, was given by the teacher in the area of Physical and Sports Education, Juan del Coso Garrigós.
The relationship between genes and sport
This lesson has been about the importance of genetics in sports performance. Del Coso, in his dissertation, has indicated that “it is an issue that has been debated since the beginning of sports science” and that it depends on sports, such as athletics. , “in which there is a greater influence of genetics” or judo in which training and technique take on “greater importance.”
To shed more light on this topic, the professor and researcher at the Sports Studies Center has explained a research led by URJC recently awarded with the Cajastur Foundation National Research Award in Sports Medicine, in which the genetic influence on the performance of first division footballers in the League was analyzed.
Broadly speaking, what was concluded in that study is that “the top 10 teams in the league had a minimum percentage of athletes with the XX genotype, more prone to injuries,” but the professor warned about the fact that these genetic studies were used as tools for the signing or not of footballers, since it could be that those athletes with XX genotype “had great technical or tactical capacity” that a genetic study cannot determine.
The event was completed with the presentation of a video with a summary of the most important milestones of the Rey Juan Carlos University in the 23/24 academic year, by the general secretary, Pilar Trinidad.
The event was attended by the general director of Universities of the Community of Madrid, Nicolás Casas Calvo; the mayor of Alcorcón, Candelaria Testa Romero and the CEO of Planifica Madrid (regional public infrastructure company), Pedro Corbalán Ruiz, among other political and academic authorities.
The Opening Ceremony was streamed through urjc.es and was followed by almost 800 people from 20 countries around the world.
