The Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain and the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) identify young talent UPCT to put them in touch with the best companies in Europe.
The initiative will take place through the Academy Cube platform (AC), driven by the European Commission, which is a bridge of knowledge and talent transfer between universities and industry.
The rector, José Antonio Franco, and the managing director of the Academy, Javier Perez de Vargas today signed an agreement by which the educational institution adheres to AC.
Cube Academy facilitates integration in European industry of young graduates and professionals with training in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
The platform is a bridge between young people with university degrees and European technology industry.
For it offers specific and advanced training through e-learning platform last generation.
Most of the courses offered by the platform who are registered in it are free, provided by universities and industrial and technology related companies.
In parallel Academy Cube has a job with top-level posts offered directly by industry.
With the signing of this agreement between the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Polytechnic University of Cartagena both institutions agree to collaborate in the development and deployment of Academy Cube in our country.
The UPCT will among students in their final year of undergraduate, graduate and alumni.
Besides the two institutions will jointly design training programs to include in the platform, manage recruitment programs with companies and undertake joint activities to disseminate.
During the signing ceremony, the Rector stressed the importance of bringing together our talents with the best companies like SAP and Cisco integrated into AC.
The Rector recalled that many graduates UPCT responsible positions in companies and institutions of great importance as European Space Agency.
"Having the support and collaboration of a university prestige of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena is an important step in our goal to help alleviate youth unemployment in our country and in the rest of Europe, where they will need 900,000 ICT professionals / STEM in the coming years, "explains project manager in Spain and managing director of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Javier Pérez de Vargas.
"With Cube Academy we also contribute, as far as we can, to strengthen the European technological fabric and called Industry 4.0" adds Pérez de Vargas.
At 12:00 pm, the Academy of Engineering will present this initiative UPCT students in the Graduate Hall of the School of Telecommunications Engineering (ETSIT).
Source: UPCT