Mar Menor Living Lab


Mar Menor Living Lab Edition: Mediterranean Futures Summer School

Imagen Mar Menor Living Lab Edition: Mediterranean Futures Summer School

Programme Rationale

Mar Menor Living Lab Edition is a competitive international Summer School designed to bring together a selected group of students and faculty from organizing universities for an intensive academic experience focused on sustainability challenges in fragile coastal ecosystems. The programme uses the Mar Menor lagoon and the city of Cartagena as a real-world living laboratory, combining environmental systems, urban resilience, circular economy and entrepreneurial thinking.

Partners and Institutional Collaboration

Organised by

  • New York University (NYU)
  • Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT)
  • EUT+ European University of Technology

With participation from

  • Cartagena City Council
  • Environmental agencies and regional stakeholders
  • Selected companies and research groups working on sustainability solutions