Workshop in University-Business Rapprochement at the University of Salamanca

Addressed to USAL students, professors and researchers.

Part of the activities carried out by the General Foundation of the University of Salamanca include the organization of workshops on different campuses of the University of Salamanca aimed at students, professors and researchers of the University of Salamanca. Their aim is to have the University community become aware of what companies are really like, the context in which they are developing and their prospects for the future, all aimed at promoting closer ties between the business world and the university.
This activity is part of the TCUE program of actions, managed by the Fundación General (General Foundation), to implement in the University of Salamanca the University Business Knowledge Transfer Plan 2015-2017 of the Department of Education of the Regional Government of Castile & Leon, which is funding the project through a direct grant from the Department of Education with ERDF co-financing.
The companies are selected based on their relationship with the University (potential or in the past), both in matters related to training (continuing education courses, company internships, etc.), as well as research projects or technological innovation.
Each seminar is held in a center or faculty of the University of Salamanca, and the participating companies will be selected according to their specialties, to favor synergies between them.
The next presentation will take place on March 31, at 12:30 p.m. In the Salón de Grados of the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Salamanca. On this occasion it will be attended by:

– Marcelino López Muñoz, Director of Human Resources, Global Exchange.

– Roberto Bernal, R&B Conflict Solutions

The workshop will be introduced by :

–Juan Manuel Corchado , Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Transfer

–Emilio Sánchez, Dean, Faculty of Psychology.

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Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca. He has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2013 to 2017 and Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He leads the renowned BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) Research Group, created in 2000. Director of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute, J. M. Corchado is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015, Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and Member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL). J. M. Corchado has been president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and academic coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology at the University of Salamanca, as well as researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He currently combines all his activity with the direction of Master programmes in Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z System, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management, and Smart Cities & Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca and his work as editor-in-chief of the journals ADCAIJ (Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal), OJCST (Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology) or Electronics MDPI (Computer Science & Engineering section). J. M. Corchado mainly works on projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Sentiment Analysis. He has recently been included in the board of trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation, along with other health professionals and researchers recognised for bringing scientific knowledge closer to society.

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