The partnership between universities and firms is one of the ways, which will establish the progress path of Valencian competitiveness. Manuel Broseta, president of Board of Trustees, has stated that last Tuesday during the awards ceremony of the 19th University-Society Awards of the Board of Trustees. “In a specially tumultuous period as these we are in, in which it is necessary to establish a new development strategy, the partnership between university and firms has gone from being desirable to, directly, essential”, the president of the Board of Trustees of the Universitat de València and ADEIT (University-Business Foundation) has stated.
The awards ceremony of the 19th University-Society Awards, which has been attended by Esteban Morcillo, Principal of the Universitat de València, and Manuel Llombart, Health adviser, has brought together in the head office of ADEIT (University-Business Foundation) many representatives of firms, universities and administration areas. It has been useful to defend the importance of university-firm partnership to go to an economic model more competitive. “To rise from crisis, our society needs a change in production system, a production system more focus on knowledge. And university, as the first academic institution which creates research in the state, become a main part to give a transfer of knowledge” UV Principal has pointed during his speech.
Esteban Morcillo has stressed the function of university and he has specially focused on its work at service of society that, according to him - is the “main mission” of a public university which “defends its history, culture, language and heritage and, at the same time, is the second European academic institution in internationalization. A university which do research, create teaching, critical thinking, knowledge transfer to productive areas and is side by side with people” UV Principal has said.
In this respect, Manuel Broseta has stood out the excellent results achieved by the Universitat de València, which is placed between the firsts Spanish universities in international rankings, such as the work done by its University-Business Foundation in the areas of work placement, postgraduate education and entrepreneurship, among others. “We have an important university and we have to take advantage of it” he concluded.
Among the challenges of Valencian society, Manuel Broseta has pointed out the necessity of commitment to education and specialization as the best path to fight against unemployment, increase innovative intensity of business network through knowledge transfer, encourage firms creation by graduates and increase the qualification of our entrepreneurs and enterprising people. “In all of them - he said- university plays an essential role”.
Awarded in all categories
The Valencian cooperative CONSUM has been awarded in the category “Firms and Institutions” with the “Collaboration Career Award” as a recognition to a model development and cooperation programme’s implementation, which this firm has signed with the Universitat de València. Since 1996, both institutions collaborate closely through work placement agreements for students, work placement programmes for teachers, participation in conferences, forum or sponsorships.
And in the category of Research and Development, which look for recognition of R+D projects between groups of the Universitat de València and firms or institutions in which establish a model partnership, the award has been given because of the partnership between the Fundación del Instituto Valenciano de Oncología (IVO, Valencian Institution of Oncology Foundation) and the Personality and Health Research Group of the Universitat de València. This partnership started in 1985 with the first research project in Psycho-oncology area supported in Spain. Moreover, this partnership is translated into development cooperation of two postgraduate courses of the Universitat de València, a Master degree in Psycho-oncology and the Diploma of Psychosocial Assistance for Oncology Patient.
Recognition of university talent
The latest innovation of this year has been the inclusion of the category Alumni Plus with the aim to recognise the professional, academic or/and business excellence of former students of the Universitat de València. In this category, according to the jury, it has been awarded Vicente Todolí, commissioner and art expert, who has held many notable jobs in important organisations such as in Tate Modern Gallery in London, IVAM (Institut Valencià d’Art Modern), ICA of Amsterdam, the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Oporto or National Art Museum Reina Sofía.
Moreover, this category is also focus on the recognition of the new innovative ideas and projects of students of the Universitat de València in the area of partnership between university and society. In this category, it has been awarded Raquel Baixauli Romero, student in the Humanities Branch, and Carlos Gómez, in the Social Sciences Branch.
On the other hand, in the category of Teachering Excellence, awards which are addressed to lecturers and recognised by the Valencian Department of Education, Culture and Sport of the Valencian government (Generalitat Valenciana), the lecturers who have been awarded are: Mª Amparo Blázquez Ferrer, Department of Pharmacology; Francisco José Climent Diranzo, Department of Financial and Actuarial Economics, and Rosa Mª García Lopera, Department of Physical Chemistry.
In this year the University Society Awards have had a jury formed by Manuel Broseta, Esteban Morcillo, Joaquín Molla-Angeler, Carlos Pascual, José Vicente González, Emèrit Bono and Joan Llinares.
Last update: 17 de december de 2014 08:00.
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