A Coruña, December 3, 2018.-. The vice-chancellor of Scientific Policy, Research and Transfer, Salvador Naya, presents this afternoon in New York the UDC-Inditex talent recruitment program “InTalent”, before an audience made up of Spanish scientists in the United States, grouped in the association ECUSA (Spanish scientists in the USA).
The president of this entity, Francisco Martín Martínez, researcher at MIT, will present the Naya conference entitled: “Links between Spain & USA and opportunities for talent attraction and acceleration”.
InTalent UDC-Inditex is a program carried out between the University of A Coruña and Inditex for the recruitment of postdoctoral researchers with a broad international profile and trajectory for a period of three years. Through InTalent, the generation, retention, recovery and recruitment of research talent is sought with the aim of generating a scientific and research fabric of excellence.
Thanks to this program, the UDC has already launched two calls attracting four researchers: Elena Pazos Chantrero, José Antonio Cortés, Ana Rey Rico and Jorge Ledo. Pazos is developing a project on “Development of chemical tools with applications in biomedicine”; Cortés, “Benefits and social impacts of environmental conservation policies in post-crisis Europe: The Galician case”; Rey, “Use of polymeric biomaterials as controlled release systems of non-viral vectors in cartilage regeneration”, and Ledo has a project on “Communicative theory and historical transformation between the fall of the Middle Ages and the beginning of modernity”.
The Rector of the University of A Coruña, Julio Abalde, and the president of Inditex, Pablo Isla, signed the collaboration agreement between the two entities in October 2016 to allow the creation of this program to attract excellent researchers of an international scope, unique in Spain, hence the interest of ECUSA in learning about this program that led them to invite the Vice-Rector to disseminate it in the United States. The company Inditex sponsors “InTalent” with 1.45 million euros. During the three years of the agreement, the UDC will incorporate a total of six excellent researchers, of which two remain to be hired, who will develop their research project in the scientific centers of the UDC.
ECUSA is made up of Spanish scientists who carry out their professional work in 81 American research centers. Among other objectives, it aims to establish a network of scientists that facilitates the integration of newcomers, the exchange of experiences and ideas, and interaction between disciplines. It also wants to create a body of scientists that serves as a point of contact for American and Spanish institutions, public and private.
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