The experts who took part in today’s symposium on “Driving in your 70’s and 80’s. Why not?”, organised by the abertis foundation, argued for establishing mechanisms for coordination between the different Traffic and Health authorities at both regional and national level in the renewal of driving licences for people over 65 years old. 

The chairman of abertis, Salvador Alemany, the director of Televisió de Catalunya, Mònica Terribas, the sub-director general for Innovation, Training and Guidance of the Catalan government’s education department, Joan Gumbert, and the director of the Espai Terra  programme, Tomàs Molina, attended the presentation of the prizes in the Paisatge i Entorn (Landscape and Environment) awards, organised by the Televisió de Catalunya programme Espai Terra, the Catalan government’s education department and the abertis foundation. The aim of these awards is to raise awareness of the regions and landscape among upper-high school students. The event took place today at Castellet castle, in Castellet i la Gornal (Alt Penedès), headquarters of the abertis foundation.

The paper “Highway travel time estimation with data fusion” by Francesc Soriguera Martí is the winning piece of research in the Doctoral Thesis category of the 8th abertis Prize for research into transport infrastructure management, awarded every year by the UPC-abertis chair.

Castellet castle, headquarters of the abertis foundation, today hosted a meeting of the board of the Foundation Consejo España-Estados Unidos, an organisation which fosters cooperation between the two countries and relations in the economic, political and cultural fields. The meeting was chaired by the president of the Catalan government, Artur Mas, the United States ambassador to Spain, Alan Solomont, and the chairman and the managing director of abertis, Salvador Alemany and Francisco Reynés respectively.

The castle of Castellet, headquarters of the abertis foundation, is to host the presentation of the book “Vertebrate Fauna of the Foix Nature Park”, on Thursday 17th March. This publication, the result of a research project financed by the abertis foundation, catalogues 322 vertebrates, including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. 243 of these species are birds, and it is the reservoir’s richness in bird life which was the main reason for setting up the protected area of the Foix nature park.