The nine selected companies come from eight municipalities and carry out their activity in eight different sectors.
La Diputación de Castellón and Espaitec have begun the sixth edition of the Castellón Global Program, an initiative to promote innovation and growth of the provincial business fabric that in its first five editions has helped create more than fifty jobs in the fifty participating companies.
The nine companies selected for this edition come from eight municipalities in the province and carry out their activity in eight different sectors, highlighting the reach that this initiative has throughout the province, imprinting innovation in traditional sectors of activity such as production. of cork in the interior, tourism or the agri-food sector. Without forgetting innovative companies operating in the information technology and telecommunications sector, among others.
In this edition, the great acceptance that the program has had among family businesses with a generational change stands out, with five companies of the nine selected belonging to this modality. Two companies participate in the category of recently created company and another two in the category of consolidated company in search of innovation.
During the presentation of the program, the Deputy for Economic Promotion, Salvador Aguilella, noted “the great territorial scope of this program, which in the current edition has the participation of companies from small towns such as Cinctorres or Azuébar. It is another example of the usefulness of this initiative that demonstrates how innovation is a source of wealth, since we put at your disposal a pioneering program so that you can optimize your resources, grow, and thereby generate employment in our towns."
For his part, Jesús Lancis, Acting Vice-Rector for Research and Doctorate, has highlighted “the importance of programs such as the Castellón Global Program to continue bringing the Jaume I University closer to all the municipalities of Castellón”. Lancis has also emphasized the training phase of the program "the nine selected companies are now starting an interesting 100-hour training program designed to delve deeper into the main areas of business knowledge taught by teachers with outstanding experience in the world." business”
