Good morning. We start the event. Sorry for the
delay, but it was due to a traffic issue, right?
The director of the School of Super Engineering
and Computer Science of the UNED, right?
I want to welcome, in a few words in Spanish,
and then in English, all the participants,
to Don Ángel Maroto Valiente, Dean of Sciences
of the UNED, and Don Rafael Pastor Vargas,
Director of the School of Super Engineering
and Computer Science of the UNED.
I also want to thank my colleagues in the event organization,
Don David Díaz Gutiérrez, from the Polytechnic University of Madrid,
and Don Jorge López, who is the Head of Study of the School
of Super Engineering and Computer Science of the UNED.
I also want to congratulate the
organization that has been for this event,
Don David Moreno Salinas, from the National
University of Education in Instance,
who is a professor of the School of Computer Science,
and Dona Rosa Huertas Penelas, who is a professor
of the National University of Education
in Instance, of the Faculty of Science.
We will soon begin to present all the
planned development for this event,
and without further delay, I give the
floor to Don Ángel Maroto Valiente,
so that he can give his words, which I consider timely. Thank you.
Hello, good morning to all.
Thank you very much, Antonio, for your presentation.
Thank you, Professor, representatives of the ministries,
different companies related to today's topic,
students who are attending this event. Again, good morning to all.
It is an honor to welcome you to this event, my
first event as dean of the Faculty of Sciences,
and for me it is a great joy because I think it is an
event that is closely related to our teaching activities
and research activities at the Faculty of Sciences.
This seminar asks us a direct question,
which I think can be summarized,
because it has three lines of question, if we are prepared
to generalize the regular use of sustainable aviation fuel,
the SAF, to see if when we finish the seminar we have
the answer, or at least an approximation to the answer.
Understood, obviously I am not an expert in the subject,
but thanks to the information given in the seminar,
I think I can affirm that commercial aviation, along
with other means of transport, my car, for example,
which is a diesel car from many years
ago, faces a historical challenge,
drastically reducing its emissions without
compromising safety or competitiveness.
It seems that the SAF is not a perfect solution, but it represents a
strategic opportunity to move towards a cleaner and more sustainable future,
a goal in which I think we are all working
in different areas of our professional field.
Something that is very interesting and that
makes me happy to be here at this moment
is a collaboration between the UNED and
the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
We are neighbors, colleagues and, in many cases, friends.
In addition, the presence of leading companies
in the aeronautical, energy and transport sectors
makes this event very promising, which allows, of
course, to open a space for reflection and debate
on the technological, regulatory and economic challenges
that the transition to sustainable aviation fuel implies,
in line with the European decarbonization commitments.
A very forceful phrase, and I hope you have a great
challenge, and I hope you get an opportunity to achieve it.
And now I'm going to talk about the Faculty of Sciences,
of which I have the honor of being a representative,
dean in office, and I've been working as dean for a few years.
At the Faculty of Sciences, if you look at our website, which
is the area where we publish the information we work on,
I think you can see that this challenge is
within the lines of research we work on,
oriented, as a good Faculty of Sciences,
with a multidisciplinary vision.
We teach and work in research fields related to mathematics,
physics, chemistry, biology, geology and environmental sciences.
I think this challenge you have to answer this question
is fundamental with that multidisciplinary vision.
Multidisciplinary, if I can say it well at the
end of the day, I deserve the coffee afterwards.
Well, in that context, I think the Faculty of
Sciences can serve to achieve that challenge.
I am a chemist, and I am going to start talking a little
about chemistry, without extending myself too much.
I think that these processes that allow us to reach sustainable
fuels are framed within a key concept, the circular economy.
In the field of chemistry, there is a concept related to this context,
in which chemists are asked to abandon the chemistry
of transformation to move towards a chemistry of reuse,
also called circular chemistry.
This implies recognizing that natural resources are limited,
that human activity must be developed within the
framework of the Sustainable Development Goals.
As you can see, we have that challenge
from the research, from the teaching.
At the UNED, at the Faculty of Sciences, we have
just launched and inaugurated a master's degree,
which we call the Master's in Climate Change Management,
I think it is closely related to the activity
that we are going to talk about today.
I would like to thank, especially, the participation of
experts, of course, from the Polytechnic, from the UNED,
from the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, from the Ministry
of Finance, and companies such as AENA, Airbus, RedSol, Bueling and Eneaire.
This guarantees the success of this day.
Your presence shows that innovation and cooperation are essential
to achieve the goals as important as those raised in this seminar.
Finally, I invite all of you who are listening
to me via web, those of you who are here,
to take advantage of this forum to exchange ideas, raise questions
and build a realistic and ambitious vision for 2050 together.
I am sure that at the end of the day we will have a clearer
answer to the great question raised by this seminar.
I repeat, we are prepared to generalize the
regular use of sustainable aviation fuel.
Thank you very much. When my colleague
comes in, we will start the seminar.
Well, we give the floor to Don Rafael Pastor Vargas,
director of ITS Informática de la UNED. Thank you.
I don't know if I need to go up the ladder.
I usually don't like to stand up.
I don't know if it's because of my age, my weight or any other reason.
I think it's always more reasonable when
you make a presentation at an event,
first of all, what is most often required is gratitude.
The first thing I have to do, as I have done in
other ways, is to thank the Faculty of Sciences,
the professors of the Faculty of Sciences and, of course, my colleagues
from the School of Superintendent Engineering and Computer Science
for the work they have done to get here.
As you know, it's not just a simple thing.
Yes? Yes, yes.
Better now?
Of course, I also thank my colleagues from the School
of Superintendent Engineering and Computer Science.
I have to say that, between the two faculties, they
have made a tremendous effort to get to this point.
I say faculty because, although we call ourselves the
School of Superintendent Engineering and Computer Science,
whenever I go there, I always say faculty.
You know that in the Anglo-Saxon world, when you
talk about schools, you talk about other things.
I always make it clear that this is an equivalent to a faculty,
as Antonio thinks, which is not usually the case when we go up.
I also want to thank the companies that are participating.
Angel has commented, Resol, Airbus, there are several.
I also want to take the opportunity to thank
the General Directorate of Civil Aviation,
the General Directorate of European Funds, who will
be there later, and the rest of the participants.
I think that an important part is the
students, who we always forget to talk about,
but I think they are the core of the work.
I think that, fortunately, from what I've seen in the
presentations, you're going to have an intense day.
But I think it's very productive
because the subject matter deserves it.
The subject matter deserves it because we're in a
moment of, at least, of change of thought and mentality
about sustainability, about what we have in the future,
about working on sustainability approaches for the planet.
I think this is a first step.
I don't know the number of flights and the
amount of fuel that is spent in the
airspace, not only in Spain, but worldwide.
I think a small change would be a great
contribution to the issue of, let's say,
cost savings, which is also an important part in these issues,
but, above all, the issue of emissions that are being
emitted or that are being carried to the atmosphere.
I think the work is more than interesting.
I think you have, I don't know if it's an obligation,
but it's a commitment to work on these issues
in a very concrete way on the subject, and reach a conclusion.
I don't know if you're going to reach a
very specific conclusion today, but, well,
working is hard for me, and you're going to do it.
We're going to be very attentive to the conclusions
that come out of this course, of this
event, because I think it's worth it.
In the sustainability part, you can work on many things.
It's very fashionable right now to work
in energy, solar, wind communities,
where people are very involved, but there are
other factors that are already implemented,
such as this case, which is the flight
part, which I find extremely interesting,
because it's something to improve, and, as I
said before, it's a small factor of improvement.
The impact is going to be, in my point of view, brutal.
You are the experts, I'm not.
My area of work is different, but I do consider this part interesting.
Okay, just to finish, I'd like to thank, of course, Antonio,
for all the effort he's put in, my colleagues,
and I just wish you a fruitful day, and
above all, that there are conclusions.
I insist, we'll be attentive to the conclusions, because
we find everything that comes out of here interesting,
and I'm very happy, okay?
Taking into account that, in the end, we
are, from the UNED, as Bienangel said,
the master of climate change, and others that will come,
at the European level, we are in an European alliance,
and we are working precisely on an open
master in our subjects, like Bienangel.
Although there are still functions, well, a
candidate, the future dean of science, I hope, okay?
Well, we'll also have to work in that area, right?
So, let's thank him for this opportunity, because
we see what issues we have to incorporate,
both at the level of teaching and research, as in this case.
So, as I said, thank you all very much for participating,
and I trust that the day will be productive
for everyone, I'm included in this, okay?
I'll be here, okay? I have several meetings,
but I'll try to stay a little longer,
because I'm very interested in this subject. Thank you all very much.
Thank you very much, dear Rafael, for your words.
And well, before we move on to the lectures, I wanted to first thank,
a few words of thanks to all the people who are attending online,
through the portal Canal UNED, to the people
who have shown their interest in the event.
I also wanted to give a good, explicit greeting
to the people of the UNED University Master,
in response to corporate and sustainability society,
who may be attending this event,
to the UNED part, to the students of the degree,
master's degree from the Faculty of Science
or from the UNED Computer Science School,
and also to the students of UPM, UPM
Connecta, and the UPM Athens students, right?
To all of them, thank you for your attention.
And just a few words in English for our non-Spanish native speakers,
also our dear foreign students, thank you so
much, many thanks for attending this event.
I hope this event will be very interesting, in fact, for you,
and we wish you enjoy this event during the present day.
Thank you so much again.
Feel free, don't hesitate to ask questions in
English after the first part or the second part.