Universitat de València and the firm Capgemini, one of the main world consultancy, technology, and outsourcing providers, have signed on Wednesday a convention for the creation of the Chair Capgemini-Universitat de València to the innovation in the software development. The Chair will provide services on technology and communication to promote the innovation, agility, and quality on the software development through training actions.
The Chair contemplates the generation of an advanced research that allows for the appropriate integration of the academic and business world, and that promotes the start-up of master’s degrees in the field of the activity covered by the Chair. It also plans the development of a practice training policy for university students through informative conferences, innovation laboratories, and internships in Capgemini.
The firm addresses the changes related to the Internet, mobility, the new digital devices, and the analysis of data that affect their structures and business. This action of joint collaboration with the Universitat aims to the development of this type of initiatives through training, cultural, and research and informative actions, fields in which both entities have common interests.
Also as a part of this agreement and given the importance that it has for the Universitat having tools and platforms for the improvement on the innovation, Capgemini makes available for the institution its development framework Devon©, a tool property of the consultancy that the Universitat could use with academic and research purposes. In fact, among the planned actions of this collaboration agreement there is the creation of the Research Awards Java-Devon, open to all the university community, that is, students, professors and administrative and service staff.
The principal of Universitat de València, Esteban Morcillo, stated: “The creation of this chair reinforces the training activities of this institution, but also the research and disclosure of new technical and technological abilities that will contribute, without doubt, to complete and improve the capacities of our future professionals.”
“It is an honour for Capgemini the signature of this collaboration convention for the creation of the Chair that demonstrates our agreement and our dedication to make the training one of the priorities, not only of our business, but also of our own culture”, said José Luis Moreno, Capgemini’s vice-president.
By its part, the vice-principal for International Relations and Cooperation, Guillermo Palao, emphasised the excellence of the product of Capgemini and referred to it as a “high-level tool in the market that will be used, for the first time, with research and teaching purposes.”
To the signature of this convention were present the also director of the School of Engineering (ETSE), Paula Marzal; the delegate of the principal, Jesús Vicent Albert; and the ex-director of the ETSE, Vicente Cerverón, among other professors of Universitat de València, as well as representatives of the Capgemini firm.
On Universitat de València
Universitat de València, founded in 1499 under the name of Estudi General (General Study), is one of the universities more important and veteran of Spain. It is a public institution oriented to the teaching and research in almost every field of knowledge. It gives the necessary teachings for the training of students, the preparation for the professional or artistic activities exercise, and the obtaining, in its case, of the pertinent academic degrees, as well as the permanent training of the own staff and of the teaching staff in all the teaching levels. Also, it promotes the search of new knowledge, the technological and scientific development, and evaluates its results, both in what refers to the basic research and to the applied research, by transferring the research results to the productive sectors, contributing, this way, to the technical progress and to the economic and social development.
Universitat de València is among the four more significant of Spain in the field of R&D&I, and has 18 university research institutes (three of them are joint centres with the Spanish Research Council).
On Capgemini
With more than 145,000 employees in more than 40 countries, Capgemini is one of the major global leaders in consulting, technology and outsourcing. The Capgemini Group achieved global revenues of 10.573 million Euros in 2014. Capgemini, in collaboration with clients, creates and provides technology and business solutions that are perfectly adapted to their needs and that help to achieve the desired results. A deeply multicultural organisation, Capgemini has developed its own way of working, the Collaborative Business Experience™ based on their production model Rightshore®.
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