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The National Association of Local Telecommunications Operators (AOTEC) will create a business classroom in the Technical School of Telecommunications Engineering (ETSIT) of the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena.
This space is aimed at promoting activities related to the training and recruitment of undergraduate and master's students.
AOTEC represents a sector estimated at some 1,100 SMEs in the country, who in 2015 moved around 600 million euros and generated some 7,600 direct jobs.
UPCT Vice-President Alejandro Díaz Morcillo and AOTEC President Antonio García Vidal signed a collaborative framework agreement on Tuesday to boost R & D and innovation in the sector, as well as facilitate the implementation of practices by students in partner companies.
According to the agreement, AOTEC will offer a scholarship for the completion of final degree or Master's thesis or doctoral theses and the collaboration of both institutions in the practical training of students.
They also provide for the joint organization of conferences and seminars, the reporting of the sector and the presentation of projects in competitions of ideas, prototypes and similar national or international.
One of the functions of the UPCT will be to generate innovative solutions in the field of telecommunications for AOTEC, while the organization, in addition to the practices, will propose activities of R & D & I research groups of the Cartagena Polytechnic, and will propose possible ideas or developments that are likely to be addressed in end-of-study work by students.
"Díaz Morcillo emphasized that the sector of local telecommunication operators represents a very important area of ​​technological development in this sector and that collaboration with students and research groups, mainly of the School of Telecommunication Engineering, of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena will allow you to bring your knowledge and experience closer to the joint needs of the companies that make up AOTEC.
In addition, the possibility of carrying out specific training actions for students aimed at covering scholarship or direct contracting needs in the local operators themselves is opened up, which together with the research projects resulting from this agreement, will strengthen the demand of students and the development of emerging communications technologies. "
García Vidal stressed the importance of this agreement, given that the UPTC is one of the leading academic institutions in Spain in the field of teaching and research in the field of telecommunications.
In this sense, it has stressed the need for SMEs in this sector to have a "stable partner" that supports them in the process of continuous innovation that they are subject to, due to the constant evolution of technologies in the field of telecommunications.
"We seal the beginning of a relationship that, we are sure, will be stable and prolonged over time, we want to do many things with the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena", he asserted.
The president of AOTEC has also emphasized the practicality of the UPCT's teaching, the high level of qualification of its students and the high degree of employability.
Therefore, doing internships with the SMEs that make up the national association will help complement their training and allow them to look at a sector that is in full expansion and that needs experts.
García Vidal recalled that the Polytechnic University of Cartagena has become the center of the debate on telecommunications in Spain this year with the XXXII National Symposium of the International Radio Union (URSI), and that AOTEC "wants to contribute to strengthen this role as a national reference forum ".
Local Operators
The National Association of Local Telecommunications Operators represents and defends the interests of the associated companies in this sector in Spain.
It is especially relevant in the autonomous communities of Murcia, Andalusia, Valencia, Aragon, Extremadura, Castilla La-Mancha and Catalonia.
In the case of the region of Murcia are associated to AOTEC a total of 24 companies that cover practically the set of municipalities of the autonomous community.
The importance of this sector is evidenced annually in the telecoms fair organized by AOTEC and in its last edition attracted more than 2,200 attendees, who came to contemplate the novelties of 67 companies suppliers of first order of the sector of the telecommunications that occupied 101 booths
The local telecommunications operators are technologically advanced companies, economically solvent and born with vocation of permanence in a territory.
At present they deploy and efficiently manage broadband networks in populations of less than 50,000 inhabitants, being active agents in the digitization of Spanish society and economy.
Source: UPCT
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