This agreement will act as a common thread between the university and the municipality's companies to find out what their needs and problems are.
The General Foundation of the Universitat Jaume I and the ASagunto town hall have signed a collaboration agreement to launch a program for the dissemination of research results in Sagunto to improve the transfer of knowledge and innovative programs to companies. The event was attended by the rector of the Universitat Jaume I, Eva Alcón; the mayor of Sagunto, Darío Moreno; the general director of Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (IVACE), Júlia Company; the vice-rector for Research and Transfer, Jesús Lancis; the deputy vice-rector for Transfer, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, David Cabedo; the manager of the General Foundation of the UJI, Juan Antonio Bertolín, as well as the Councilor for Economic Promotion and First Deputy Mayor, Mª José Carrera, among others.
The mayor of Sagunto, Darío Moreno, explained that the objective of the agreement is "to ensure that the university understands what the needs of companies are and can provide solutions to those problems that companies encounter in their daily lives." Moreno has expressed his gratitude because "Sagunto is the headquarters of one of the 'antennas', which is what these people will be called who will ensure that there is good communication and connection between the UJI and the companies in our municipality and, in this "In this sense, we absolutely support programs of this type for our municipality."
For her part, the rector Eva Alcón has highlighted that "the transfer to society of the knowledge generated at the University is one of the strategic objectives of the UJI" and has highlighted the importance of carrying out initiatives such as this one that "make it possible to bring university research to companies that, geographically, are further away from the campus with a double objective: to capture their challenges, in order to guide research towards overcoming them; and provide companies with the latest innovations derived from research results, so that they can incorporate them and benefit."
The general director of IVACE has highlighted the importance of this agreement aimed at improving the impact of the dissemination of research by universities and their science parks. «It is key to intensify the collaboration of the different interface agents that promote the exchange of experiences between researchers, companies and society as a whole with an objective that we defend from IVACE and the Department of Sustainable Economy: increase private investment in R&D ", favor the evolution of the productive sectors and the creation of stable and quality employment for Valencian companies."
Projects to promote the transfer of technology and knowledge in the province of Castellón
This project, which has the collaboration of the Office of Cooperation in Research and Technological Development of the UJI (OCIT), is framed in the activities of the agreement that was signed last July between the General Foundation of the UJI and the Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (IVACE) to promote the transfer of knowledge and technology between University-Business and support innovative entrepreneurship. Within this agreement, the development of a pilot program to reinforce the dissemination activity is framed, consisting of the launch of a results dissemination antenna in Sagunto, where the public university of Castellón has its headquarters.
The activities planned for this dissemination antenna are the preparation of materials to promote the dissemination of results, the holding of conferences and meetings between University research groups and business groups and the scheduling of visits to companies to detect needs in technology or organizational processes of companies and publicize the advances that are being made in these fields by the University's research groups.
In order to promote the generation of employment and the labor insertion of citizens and therefore increase citizen well-being, the Sagunto City Council, through the Department of Economic Promotion, has launched a development strategy that seeks to improve actions regarding employment and training, promoting entrepreneurship to add more social and economic dynamism in the territory and disseminating innovation in all aspects of economic activity to modernize the local economy.
Likewise, the General Foundation of the Universitat Jaume I promotes its objectives established in the agreement through cooperation in the fulfillment of the University's own functions, complementing and improving those activities carried out by the University structure; manage various infrastructures of the Universitat Jaume I and the services linked to them, as well as promote innovation, technological development and the use of new technologies in research, teaching and management.


