A Coruña, 16 February 2018.- The Vice-Chancellor for Scientific Policy, Research and Transfer of the University of A Coruña, Salvador Naya, is participating this week in the XXI International Congress of Higher Education “Universidad 2018” in Havana, Cuba, which this edition has as its motto “The university and the 2030 agenda for sustainable development”.
The Vice-Chancellor was invited to participate with the presentation “University-Company Technology Transfer in the context of industry 4.0”, in which he recounted successful cases of technology transfer that are being carried out from the UDC with companies in the area such as Inditex or Navantia. Naya explained that “in the case of the multinational Inditex, talent recruitment is being promoted through its own program, InTalent, which is giving excellent results in terms of researchers returning”. “The collaboration with the public shipyard Navantia focuses on a mixed research unit, UMI, called “Shipyard 4.0: the shipyard of the future” in which various actions related to industrial 4.0 in the shipbuilding sector are being carried out”, added the vice-chancellor.
Salvador Naya explained that today the University “must play a dynamic role in the environment in which it carries out its main mission of educating and researching, promoting the so-called third mission, that of technological transfer to society”. This path, declared the vice-chancellor “is key in universities that have an innovative vocation like the University of A Coruña”. The congress is attended by around 2,500 delegates from around 70 countries. In addition to giving the presentation, the vice-chancellor had the opportunity to meet with various academic personalities in order to establish possible university alliances.
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