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Campus Party 2010 begins in Valencia

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-07-26 19:19

MADRID - This Monday sees the beginning of the 2010 Campus Party Spain.

The event, which is being held in the city of Valencia, brings together thousands of people and their computers from all over the World in order to share and debate experiences and information, as well as carrying out a range of different activities related to information technology, communications and entertainment.

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The Campus Party is thought to be the biggest on-line electronic entertainment event in the World.

The Valencia event has sections on a series of different topics, from astronomy to video and gaming as well as security, photography and music among many others.

It will also count on the presence of speakers such as French astronaut, Jean Francois Clervoy, who is also a member of the European Space Agency, astronomy journalist Stuart Clark, Karlheinz Brandenburg, Professor in Ilmenau and Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT and the editor of Wired UK, Ben Hammesley.

Campus Party Valencia 2010 will also contain a Green Campus, an innovation which began in 2007 in which those attending can focus their minds on ways of saving the environment and fighting climate change.