Fregata Space, a technological platform for monitoring water quality, partner of the Philippe Cousteau Foundation, has been awarded first prize in the XXI Entrepreneur Contest awarded by Caixa Bank, DayOne and the Generalitat de Catalunya.

The Entrepreneur XXI award aims to "help innovative people achieve their dreams, giving equal opportunities to all territories". Fregata Space uses satellite images to create, through artificial intelligence algorithms, indicators of water quality and the presence of contaminants such as plastics and hydrocarbons.

The XXXV International ASEPELT Conference will be held in Madrid from June 29 to July 2, 2022, organized by the Department of Applied, Public and Political Economics of the Faculty of Statistical Studies of the Complutense University of Madrid.

The topic of this XXXV conference is Data Science for Applied Economics, and the pivotal aspect on which it will turn will be the opportunities offered by Data Science for the advancement of applied economics. Economics is an empirical science. Data analysis is in fact one of the fundamental elements of applied economics. The quantification of economic phenomena, the contrast of hypotheses about the functioning of the economy, the elaboration of purely predictive models or the evaluation of the impact of economic programs and policies require data analysis.

All the information about the congress is already available on the web https://www.congresoasepelt.es.

We look forward to your participation and your valuable contributions.

On January 19, 2022, a conference was held at the Faculty of Tourism and Finance of the University of Seville, sponsored by ASEPELT, with the title The importance of financial derivatives in the face of market uncertainty. The content of the conference focused on the possibilities offered by these instruments to manage financial risks in times of uncertainty.

The conference was opened by a discussion moderated by Mr. Filippo Di Pietro, Professor of Financial Economics at the University of Seville, and which included the participation of Mr. Enrique Castellanos Hernán, Director of the BME Institute (Spanish Stock Exchange and Markets), Mr. José Luis García López, Variable Income Analyst in Securities and Stock Markets and managing partner of ENBOLSA, and Mr. Óscar Gil Flores, Professor at the IEB (Institute of Stock Market Studies). The colloquium was followed by the presentation of two books on the world of derivatives recently published by Delta Editorial: Manual to understand Financial Derivatives, coordinated by Ms. María Dolores Oliver Alfonso, Professor of Financial Economics at the University of Seville and coordinator of the conference, and Financial Derivatives, coordinated by Mr. Francisco Javier Fernández Fernández, Product Manager and COO of BBVA's foreign exchange business.

Find here the link to the full recording of the day: https://eu-lti.bbcollab.com/collab/ui/session/playback.