Protocol of collaboration between the Regional Government of Castile and Leon, its four public universities and SECOT

The Gordón Ordás Paraninfo, in the El Albéitar Building at the University of Leon, hosted on the morning of 31 May 2017 the signing of the collaboration protocol that will make it possible to open an Entrepreneurial Graduate Office in each of the thirteen public university campuses of the Community.

The event was attended by the Employment Minister of the Regional Government of Castile and Leon, Carlos Fernández Carriedo, the Rectors of the universities of Leon, Juan Francisco García Marín, Burgos, Manuel Pérez Mateos, Valladolid, Daniel Miguel San José, and Juan Manuel Corchado Rodríguez, as well as Roberto Escudero Barbero and José González Torrico, as Presidents of SECOT in the delegations of Leon and Valladolid. Also attending were the mayor of Leon, Antonio Silván, the President of the Federation of Employers of León (FELE), Javier Cepedano Valdeón, the delegate of the Regional Government in Leon, Guillermo García, and numerous representatives of trade unions, companies and all types of organizations and businesses.

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Posted in: University of Salamanca
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Posted by Juan M. Corchado

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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