Public Relations and Events: The Organization of Festivals as a Tool for Cultural Promotion

Festivals not only fulfill their traditional role as an institution that allows to present, spread or preserve the culture of a society, but also stand out for their ability to generate wealth in the cities where they are celebrated, for their contribution to the diversification of the tourism product or the improvement of the image of the place (Devesa, Báez, Figueroa and Herrero, 2012). Specifically, film festivals have a much greater importance playing a fundamental, but not recognized, role for the development of the industry and the history of cinema (Vallejo, 2014, p.14). Under this perspective, the main objective of this work is to observe the organization of the SCC Express Short Film Festival, in order to propose a sequenced model for the organization of events as a tool for communication and promotion of the cultural industry. The application of the methodological design designed for the application of the proposed case study allows to establish a 9-phase model for the organization of festivals as a technique of promotion and cultural development at the local level

Employability skills developed by non-traditional students along their undergraduate program

This paper was developed in the context of the European project EMPLOY (Enhancing the employability of non-traditional students in higher education, Erasmus Plus Program 2015-2017), a qualitative, interdisciplinary and biographical research focusing on nontraditional university students and graduates from six European countries (Sweden, Poland, United Kingdom, Ireland, Portugal and Spain). The project aims are, among others: a) to understand the employability from the perspective of students and graduates; b) to increase knowledge and understanding of the factors that promote or hinder employability; c) to explore the impact of age, gender, social class, ethnicity and disability in employment prospects of students; etc. In spite of the fact that university graduates are in better conditions when accessing to the labor market, non-traditional students might experience special difficulties related to their specific characteristics. We lack of disaggregated information related to employment rates for higher education graduates and there is not specific research which deepens in the transition process of non-traditional groups. Our study is concerned with identifying which employability skills have been developed by non-traditional students during their stay at the University of Seville. For this purpose we consider the formal learning associated to their syllabuses, the extracurricular training they have been involved in, as well as the previous work experiences. We have carried out seven biographical in-depth interviews with students of the University of Seville (4 females, 3 males), all of them studying degrees in different areas of knowledge: Pedagogy, Philosophy, Mechanical Engineering, Pharmacy, Biology and Business Management. All participants were in the final year of their undergraduate program. In addition, all of them represented different characteristics of non-traditional students: adult and mature students (3), immigrants (2) and learners with low economic and cultural capital (2). As for the results and following the classification of professional competences raised by Bunk (1994), we note that through the university syllabuses students developed the methodological competence, that is the reaction from previous experiences and problem solving skills. However, work experience and extracurricular activities promoted social competence, one that enables them to collaborate with others in a communicative and constructive way, showing interpersonal understanding. In addition, in the three training fields, the specific skills or qualifications of the job, technical competence, were also developed. Finally, it can be noted that in the three areas considered in our analysis, there is a lack in the development of the participatory competence, which refers to coordination and organisational skills, leadership and ability to make decisions and take responsibility.Unión Europea 2014-1-UK01-KA203-00184

Reliability Improvement in III-V Concentrator Solar Cells by Means of Perimeter Protection

This paper presents the evolution in the strategy to assess the reliability of III-V solar cells and a new thermal ageing test carried out over GaAs single junction solar cells at three different temperatures (130, 150 and 170° C). The perimeter of the solar cells has been protected with silicone, which seems to be an effective way of enhancing the reliability of the solar cells. A preliminary analysis of the results indicates a mean time to failure (MTTF) one order of magnitude larger than the one obtained in a previous thermal test with the perimeter uncoated

La creación poética en las elegias ovidianas del destierro: su expresión a través de las imágenes

The article deals with an importan! subject in the ovidian elegies of the exile: the poetic creation as a consequence of a deep inwardness ofthis poetry and its expression throug the most miscellaneous images; sorne of them are taken from the nature world, the other ones are extracted from the human activity, inspired with the navigation principaly.The article deals with an importan! subject in the ovidian elegies of the exile: the poetic creation as a consequence of a deep inwardness ofthis poetry and its expression throug the most miscellaneous images; sorne of them are taken from the nature world, the other ones are extracted from the human activity, inspired with the navigation principaly

Métrica y Estilística en las elegías ovidianas del destierro

The article goes very briefly through some the style influence of the Ovidien Exile Elegies; (outstanding feature of this style is its particular poetry mainly highlited in two fundamental chapters: these elegies intention and its form as collection of letters) in the metrical field. These influences already mentioned should be summarized as follows:-principal homodiny -plenty of cases of rhyme between the end of the hexameter hemistichs and above all of the pentameter -and last but non least, the wide-spread coincidence between metric and syntaxis, i.e., sentence and distich.El artículo aborda de forma muy resumida algunas de las incidencias que el estilo de las elegías ovidianas del destierro -estilo determinado por su poética particular, definida, sobre todo, por dos capítulos fundamentales: la intencionalidad de dichas elegías y su forma epistolar-ha tenido en el campo métrico. Estas incidencias las podemos resumir en las siguientes: mayoritaria homodinia, numerosos casos de rima entre los finales de los hemistiquios del hexámetro y, sobre todo, del pentámetro y, por último, la generalizada coincidencia de métrica y sintaxis, es decir, de dístico y frase

Poesía e inmortalidad en las elegías ovidianas del destierro

Es muy presumible que las mismas circunstancias vitales que apremiaron la existencia de Ovidio influyeran en su particular concepción de la poesía. Ese hecho, unido a la gran cantidad de géneros poéticos que cultivó, hace que tengamos en el poeta de Sulmona la más rica exposición sobre la función de la poesía que podemos hallar en cualquiera de los autores de su época.One of the manifestations of the poetic reflection of the exile 's Ovid consists on the mentions about the inmortality that this poetry is going to confer to his wife and other consignees of his epistles. This fact is one of the aspect of the originality of these exile's poems, in relation with other (more or less) contemporaneous poets, not only because of bow often this theme appears, but because of the boldness of these texts

"Hacia una poética ovidiana del destierro"

El artículo plantea la necesidad de elaborar una poética ovidiana del destierro, a la vez que señala las grandes líneas por las que ésta habría de discurrir.The article proposes the need for elaborating the art of the Ovid's poetics about exile, at the same time as announces the main lines to roam alond