University campus recognized for sixth year with international Green Flag award

For the sixth consecutive year, the campus of the University of Navarra has received the international Green Flag Award, granted by the institution Keep Britain Tidy, which rewards the good management of parks and green spaces around the world. The jury has positively valued the initiatives that have been carried out to promote biodiversity and protect the environment, as well as the people who are in charge of taking care of it. The jury highlighted that the good management and maintenance work is due to the vocation and good human and material structure of the team.

With a park of 113 hectares, the largest in Pamplona, the campus has a botanical route where you can see a variety of shrubs and more than 4,190 trees of 173 different species, including Japanese cherry trees, ginkgos, red beeches and sequoias. It also offers a 5-kilometer circular running circuit. The sustainable management of the campus and the care for people and the environment are part of the University of Navarra's Strategy 2025.

In Spain, three more parks have been recognized, including Parque de Quevedo (León), Parque La Granja (León) and Parque Universidad de Huesca (Huesca).

Making the campus a welcoming place has been a key objective since it began to take shape. This was recalled by Nuestro Tiempo magazine in its report "Where the dream took root". Following in the footsteps of Ángel Ramos, who first dreamed of the campus as a landscape, as well as Pachi Villar, the first head gardener, and Carlos Soria, curator of the campus, the current team of gardeners maintains the same determination: Francisco Javier Díez de Ulzurrun, head, together with his colleagues Víctor María Domínguez, Jesús Antonio Izurriaga, Ángel María Sagüés, Pedro Leoz, Ángel Leoz, Jacinto Aquerreta, Aingueru Zalba and Borja Obanos; with the coordination of Eugenio Menéndez, director of the Works and Maintenance Service, and Cristina Muñoz, director of the campus Planning and Design Service.