Company chairs

Date of constitution:
1 February 2023

Head of the chair:
Professor Rebeca P. Díaz Redondo, Director of the Escola de Enxeñaría de Telecomunicación, in delegation of the rector of the Universidade de Vigo

Monitoring Commission:

• Prof. Manuel García Sánchez
  (Coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Telecommunication Engineering)
• Prof. Pedro S. Rodríguez Hernández
  (Deputy director of Dissemination and Recruitment of the Escola de Enxeñaría de Telecomunicación)
• Prof. Enrique Costa Montenegro
  (Coordinator of the Tutorial Action Plan of the Escola de Enxeñaría de Telecomunicación)
• Ruth del Carmen Escarda Iglesias (Indra)
• Manuel Angel Otero Chantada (Indra)
• Jesús Manuel Coast Pazo  (Indra)
• Javier Piñeiro Rodríguez (Indra)
• Jesús Ángel García Sánchez (Indra)

Activities of the chair

• Collaboration and support in the Plan of Diffusion and Catchment of the EET for the realisation of activities of scientific and technological divulging that redunden in the visibility, the diffusion, the knowledge and the practice of the studies that give in the EET, and with this, boost the scientific and technological vocations between the new alumnado.
• The creation of a program of catchment of talent, that have by purpose the training of excellence of the alumnado of the EET.
• The impulse of activities that allow the diffusion of the educational activity and researcher of the educational personnel and researcher of the EET.
• The collaboration in transversal activities to the teaching, especially in the field of the Plan of Action Tutorial (orientaTE and mentoring MEET-Teleco)
• Promote the set up of formative activities that have by object the qualification, specialisation and update of competitions of members of the university community attending to the competitive needs of the company.
• Organise days, conferences, seminars or forums, in the fields of own studies of the Chair.
• Promotion in scientific and technological events related with subjects of interest in the field of the Chair.
• Conjoint realisation of Projects and Programs of Scientific Investigation, Development and Technological Innovation.
• Divulging of the activities of the Chair.

Date of formation
2019 (valid for 2 years).

Head of the Chair
Professor Carmen García Mateo, on behalf of the Rector of the University of Vigo.

Chair activities
It involves the stable collaboration between the University of Vigo and MN PROGRAM in order to promote the development of professional skills of university students, improve training, expand or update the knowledge, techniques or skills of members of the university community or other professionals. Its aim is to adapt them to the needs of the company, promote lifelong learning, innovation and research in the following areas:

• Robotic process automation.
• Biometric identification.
• Language engineering and speech interfaces.
• Advanced artificial intelligence techniques.
• Advanced and massive data management/Big Data.

Date of formation
21/12/2016 (valid for 4 years). 

Head of the Chair
Professor Iñigo Cuiñas Gómez, on behalf of the Rector of the University of Vigo.

Chair activities
It involves the stable collaboration between the University of Vigo and Deloitte Advisory in the creation of a talent recruitment programme, which aims to train students of the University of Vigo with a good academic record, innovative capacity and a good level of English. It will promote the implementation of training activities that aim to train, specialise and update the skills of members of the university community and external professionals to meet the competitive needs of the company. A system of internships will be promoted for maximum periods of six months for students or recent graduates of the University of Vigo, after a selection through a regulated process. Congresses, conferences, seminars or forums will be organised in the fields of studies of the chair. The publication of studies or scientific or divulgation works will be promoted, referred to the fields of studies of the chair.

Date of formation
18/12/2018

Head of the Chair
Professor Ana Fernández Vilas, on behalf of the Rector of the University of Vigo.

Chair activities
It involves the stable collaboration between the University of Vigo and R to promote the development of professional skills of university students, improve training, expand or update the knowledge, techniques or skills of the university community or other professionals. Its aim is to adapt them to the needs of the company, promote continuous training, innovation and research in the area of cybersecurity. Under the umbrella of this generic objective, the strategic lines of action of the R Chair in Cybersecurity are:

1. Collaboration in teaching and research, especially in the Master’s Degree (UVigo-UDC) in Cybersecurity (munics.es).
2. Creation of a talent attraction programme aimed at achieving academic excellence in the Universities of Vigo and A Coruña.
3. Promotion of activities that allow the creation of spaces for debate and dissemination of teaching and research activities in the field of cybersecurity.
4. Promotion of actions that stimulate the training, specialisation and updating of the competencies of the university community and professionals from outside the university community, attending to the competitive needs of the company.