This Wednesday, the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) has hosted a presentation because of the fourth occasion on which this programme “Becas Santander-CRUE-CEPYME” has been held. This programme offers 591 grants, which are worth a 1,800 euros each, for students from all Valencian universities to take a professional work placement in small and medium-sized enterprises of this Community during the academic year 2014-15. Deadline for students and firms will be opened until 31st January.
To participate, students and firms have to register themselves on the website www.becas-santander.com, where you can also find the terms and conditions of this programme. Students of the Universitat de València can access directly from the website: http://becassantanderuv.adeituv.es/ca/
Jesús Pastor Ciurana, Principal of the UMH and president of the Conferencia de Rectores de las Universidades Públicas Valencianas (CRUPV, Principal’s Council of Valencian Public Universities); Esteban Morcillo Sánchez, Principal of the Universitat de València; Francisco José Mora Mas, Principal of the Universitat Politècnica de València; Manuel Palomar Sanz, Principal of the University of Alacant; Vicent Climent Jordà, Principal of the Universitat Jaume I; José Peris Cancio, Principal of the Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir; César Casimiro Elena, Vice-Principal of the CEU Cardenal Herrera University; Felipe Palau Ramírez, director-general of the Directorate-General for University, Higher Education and Science of the Valencian government (Generalitat Valenciana); Moisés Jiménez, Vice-President of CIERVAL and president of the Confederación Empresarial de la Provincia de Alicante (COEPA, Employers’ Confederation of Alacant); Antonio Valldecabres, director of this region of Banco Santander; Lelizabeth Ruíz Parada, work placement student in Aire Networks del Mediterráneo; and Carlos García Pérez, work placement tutor of this firm, have attended the presentation of this programme and have participated in an academic debate about employability.
In this fourth occasion on which this programme has been held, 5,000 university students from all over Spain will be able to take a professional and paid work placement in SMEs during 2015. When this academic year comes to an end, 17,500 students will have participated in this programme, which started during the academic year 2011-2012. With this fourth call of this grant, Banco Santander, through Santander Universidades, will have contributed 31.5 million to this programme, which is directly managed by universities. In the Valencian Community, this programme will allocate 1,063,800 euros this year. Altogether, this initiative will have allowed that, at the end of 2015, 2,036 university students of this Community have taken a professional work placement with a support of 3,664,800 euros.
These grants are promoted by Banco Santander, the Conferencia de Rectores de las Universidades Españolas (CRUE) and the Confederación Española de la Pequeña y Mediana Empresa (CEPYME), represented in this community by CIERVAL. These grants allow to take a professional work placement in micro, small and medium-sized Valencian enterprises during three months with the aim to complement students’ training, improve their knowledge and encourage their labour market integration. This programme allows SMEs to involve the best talent among young people.
In the previous three calls, over 204,000 students applied for the grant and over 24,000 small and medium-sized Spanish enterprises participated in the programme. Furthermore, over 44% of the grant holders of the third year stayed in the firm, either by extension of the grant or in staff. In the Valencian Community, in the previous call, over 8,300 university students applied for one of the 591 grants assigned to their universities, while 1,378 SMEs were registered in the programme.
Universities deal with the assignation of work placements according to criteria of transparency and worthy, language knowledge and the value of enterprises about the candidature in a personal interview. Moreover, when students register in this grant programme, they will be able to participate in all the activities and services offered by “Comunidad de Becarios Santander”, through www.agora-santander.com.
Banco Santander promotes these initiatives through Santander Universidades, which have partnership agreements with over 1,100 universities and research centres all around the world and it has allocated over 1,000 million euros to several initiatives, as well as to university projects during the last 17 years.
More information on: www.santander.com/universidades
Last update: 21 de january de 2015 13:56.
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