- The collaboration between both entities has been going on for two decades and has materialized in a battery of initiatives and research projects in various fields such as legal, financial or community investment.
- The different initiatives are provided by Inditex with an annual contribution that in the last financial year exceeded 1.3 million euros and which amounts to 7.6 million in the last decade.
A Coruña, April 30, 2025.- University of A Coruña (UDC) and Inditex have signed a Framework Collaboration Agreement to channel and promote the different projects and initiatives that both entities have been developing for more than two decades.
The agreement, which was ratified on Monday at the company’s headquarters in Arteixo by the CEO of Inditex, Óscar García Maceiras, and the rector of the UDC, Ricardo Cao Abad, will also allow the common terms and conditions of future collaborations between both entities to be established, as well as formalizing the mechanisms for their correct monitoring.
Projects and collaboration
The collaboration between Inditex and the UDC has been going on for more than two decades and has materialized in a battery of projects and initiatives, mainly research and knowledge transfer, in different areas such as legal, financial or community investment.
This activity receives a grant from Inditex that exceeded 1.3 million euros in the last financial year. The funds donated by the company to the UDC for these activities, which have promoted the excellence of this university institution and benefited hundreds of students, exceed 7.6 million euros in the last decade (period 2015 – 2024).
Currently, the University of A Coruña has eight projects sponsored by Inditex underway: the Chair of Family Business, the Chair of Spanish Language and Culture, the Development of Social Responsibility at the UDC, which includes the Chair of Sustainability, the Chair of Artificial Intelligence in Green Algorithms, the University Master’s Degree in Digital Law and Artificial Intelligence (MUDDIA), the Master’s Degree in Innovation and Financial Digitalization, and the InMotion programs, which provide grants for stays abroad for doctoral students, and InTalent, for the return and recruitment of research staff.
About the University of A Coruña
Founded in 1989 and articulated territorially through the campuses of A Coruña and Ferrol, the University of A Coruña is an institution whose purpose is “the generation, management and dissemination of culture and scientific, technological and professional knowledge through the development of research and teaching”.
Currently, the public university of A Coruña has more than 17,000 students and an academic offer where 47 degrees, 62 university master’s degrees, 39 doctoral programs and 23 postgraduate degrees can be studied in its different faculties, university, polytechnic and technical schools and research and technological centers.
About Inditex
The Inditex Group is a global fashion company with a portfolio of brands that includes Zara, Pull&Bear, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Stradivarius, Oysho and Zara Home. With a business model focused on constant innovation and customer service, Inditex operates an integrated platform of physical and online stores in more than 200 markets and has committed to achieving climate neutrality by 2040.
Within the framework of its business culture, Inditex’s priorities are the promotion of the values and principles inherent in its culture as a company and the generation of social, economic and environmental value, both internally, in relation to its workers, and in society as a whole.
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