The Canary Islands Surfing Federation (FCS), together with the University of La Laguna, through its Vice-Rectorate for Sustainability and Infrastructure, is organizing the 2nd International Conference on Wave Protection as part of the Socorro Classic, the annual event that brings together various surfing competitions at the end of September on El Socorro beach, located in Los Realejos (northern Tenerife). In this way, the FCS is reviving a global forum for the defense of a resource that is essential from a sporting, cultural, social, economic, and environmental perspective.<\/p>\n
The conference will be held on September 25th and 26th near the beach, considered a surfer's paradise. The event takes place in El Socorro fifteen years after the first international conference, also held in Tenerife, which brought together academics from around the world and served as the impetus for waves to become the focus of the global Waves Conference movement.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe seek an international exchange of knowledge and experiences and aspire to create a space that addresses issues related to the defense of the waves, which are still highly relevant. Our intention is to reclaim a workspace for building community networks at the local and international levels. This year we are starting with a modest proposal whose objective is to continue it in future editions, because these networks are built at a pace that respects the dynamics of all participants,\u201d explains Adri\u00e1n Garc\u00eda, vice president of the FCS.<\/p>\n
The sessions are open to anyone interested in the general theme and the planned program, in which local experts \u2013 the professors of the University of La Laguna and surfers \u00c1ngel Lobo, Yurena Gonz\u00e1lez and Adri\u00e1n Garc\u00eda \u2013 and international experts \u2013 Ana Manero (Australia), \u00c1ngelo Picardo (El Salvador), Carolina Butrich (Peru) and Juan Esteban Buttazzoni (Chile) \u2013 participate, linked to the protection of the waves from different perspectives.<\/p>\n
To participate in the activities, prior registration is required and can be completed via a form on the Socorro Classic website. Sessions begin at 5:00 PM on both days, in a hybrid format that allows both in-person attendance on the beach and digital participation via live stream. A certificate of attendance will be awarded to those who complete the 80-minute session of the program.<\/p>\n
Program and participants<\/strong><\/p>\n The program begins on Thursday, September 25th at 5:00 PM with an opening ceremony attended by local and academic authorities. Following this, at 5:30 PM, a three-part panel discussion entitled "Protecting Waves: Insights from a Local Perspective" will take place, featuring \u00c1ngel Lobo, PhD in Law from the University of La Laguna (ULL) and President of the Faculty of Social Sciences (FCS); Adri\u00e1n Garc\u00eda, PhD in Sociology from the ULL; and Amaury Lavernhe, two-time world bodyboarding champion. These presentations will be followed by a roundtable discussion, "Is Protection Possible with a Local Approach?", moderated by Yurena Gonz\u00e1lez, PhD in Sociology from the ULL.<\/p>\n The first session of the conference concludes at 7:00 PM with a screening of the film 'Triumph', a documentary produced by Sunday Film Maker and supported by @bodyboardsniper and @jonsenisland. This will be followed by a discussion with Amaury Lavernhe, the film's protagonist. Following the same format, the session titled 'Protecting Waves: Insights from The subsequent roundtable discussion, entitled 'Is Protection Possible with a Global Approach?', will begin at 6:00 p.m. and will be moderated by Adri\u00e1n Garc\u00eda. Starting at 7:00 p.m., as part of the event, one of the audiovisual pieces from this year's Save The Waves Film Festival\u2014the only international surf and environmental film festival focused on North America, Latin America, Europe, and Australia\u2014will be screened. Socorro Classic will be one of the stops on the Save The Waves Film Festival 2025 tour, showing several films selected for the Festival: inspiring non-fiction films and documentaries about surfing and water sports, travel and adventure, conservation, and climate. Finally, the event will conclude at 7:50 p.m.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Canary Islands Surfing Federation (FCS), together with the University of La Laguna, through its Vice-Rectorate for Sustainability\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultura","category-destacado","category-portada-ull"],"acf":[],"primary_category":null,"featured_image_thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/10\/Proteccion-de-las-Olas-300x214.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ull.es\/portal\/noticias\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA global perspective will be the framework for the presentations by international experts on Friday the 26th, starting at 5:00 p.m. These experts include Ana Manero, PhD in Political Economy and member of the Centre for Environmental Economics and Public Policy at the University of Western Australia (CEEP UWA); \u00c1ngelo Picardo, oceanographer in charge of the Save the Wave Coalition in El Salvador; Carolina Butrich, environmental engineer and manager of the Conservamos por Naturaleza Initiative, promoted in Peru by the Peruvian Society for Environmental Law; and Juan Esteban Buttazzoni, lawyer for the Rompientes Foundation in Chile.<\/p>\n