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EUROPEAN PROJECTS

EUROPEAN PROJECTS

Fundación Universidad-Empresa

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SOME OF OUR STUDIES AND PROJECTS IN WHICH WE COLLABORATE

LEARN ABOUT SOME OF OUR EUROPEAN PROJECTS

DURATION:
24 months
2025 – 2026

BUDGET:
450.000 €

PARTICIPANTS:
Chamber of Commerce of Spain and Fundación Universidad-Empresa.

An initiative by FUE and the Spanish Chamber of Commerce that travels to different cities to connect young unemployed people with the labor market. Through inspiring talks, career guidance, and practical workshops, we focus on two key sectors that are generating jobs: artificial intelligence and sustainability.

Project funded with NextGen funds. PARTICIPANTS

Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Services of Madrid
Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Services of Valladolid
Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Services, and Navigation of Sevilla
Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Services of Toledo
Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Services of Ciudad Real
Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Services, and Navigation of Valencia
Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Services, and Navigation of Tarragona
Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Services, and Navigation of the Province of Málaga
Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Services of Madrid
Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Services of Leon
Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Services, and Navigation of Málaga

Project website

DURATION:
12 months
2025-2026

BUDGET:
119.534 €

SCOPE:
Community of Madrid and Community of Castilla-La Mancha.

Despega Vocaciones is a project aimed at bringing STEAM vocational training specialties closer to young women, breaking gender barriers and ensuring a future with greater equality and innovation.

Project funded with NextGen funds. PARTICIPANTES

Participating Vocational Training Centers (Madrid and Castilla La Mancha).
Leading companies in technology, energy, and aerospace.

Project website

DURATION:
36 months
2022 – 2025

BUDGET:
1.300.000 €

SCOPE:
Community of Madrid

The objective of this project is to train 2,500 women in digital skills, with special attention to those who are unemployed, in order to improve their job opportunities and promote entrepreneurship and rural development in the Community of Madrid.

Acquire sufficient skills to use information and communication technologies independently and competently.
Improve your skills and employability in a digital environment.
Learning to leverage technology to improve communication and collaboration.
Knowing new trends or technological developments and using that knowledge to benefit your professional development.

PARTICIPANTS

Fundación Universidad-Empresa
City councils of municipalities in the Community of Madrid

Project website

DURATION:
6 months
2023

BUDGET:
158.754 €

SCOPE:
Community of Madrid.

Innovation program aimed at vocational training students, designed to develop the skills most in demand in the aviation sector.

The program is designed in collaboration with companies and training centers, tailored to the students’ needs in order to improve their skills and employability in the aviation and aerospace sector.

Additionally, it includes training for company tutors and training center instructors with the aim of improving their work and highlighting the importance of this role, which is key to ensuring the students’ learning process is successful.

Funded by the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training and by the European Union Next Generation EU PARTICIPANTS

Fundación Universidad-Empresa
City councils of municipalities in the Community of Madrid

Project website

DURATION:
36 months
2020 – 2022

BUDGET:
998.558 €

PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES:
Spain, Germany, Norway, Belgium, Slovakia, Finland, France, Ghana, Greece, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Czech Republic, Sweden, Switzerland.

Project focused on expanding the transversal skills of doctors and doctoral students, enhancing their preparation for the job market:

Identifying the deficiencies in these competencies during and after the training of university doctors.
Improving their employability and academia-industry mobility by integrating training in transversal skills into existing programs.

UIT the Arctic University Of Norway,
All Digital Aisbl,
Vysoka Skola Chemicko-Technologicka V Praze,
Tampereen Korkeakoulusaatio
Fondation Europeenne de la Science,
Tree Of Science Sas,
Technische Universitaet Muenchen
University of Ghana,
Aristotelio Panepistimio
European University Foundation
Universiteit Maastricht,
Naeringslivets Hovedorganisasjon
Universidade Nova de Lisboa,
Univerzita Mateja Bela V Banskej Bystrici,
Fundacion Universidad-Empresa
Universidad de Alcalá
Karlstads Universitet,
Innoexc Gmbh,
The Adecco Group

Project website

DURATION:
24 months
2019 – 2021

BUDGET:
281.172 €

PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES:
Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Argentina, Colombia, Peru.

Digital transformation and employability: Acquisition of transversal skills in education.
Provide an intervention model to integrate the concept of digital transformation into the higher education curriculum, to help graduates adapt to the demands of the current labor market.
Improving the employability of university graduates through the acquisition of digital skills, including training activities for trainers, guides for incorporating educational pathways into study programs, and tools for their assessment.

Fundación Universidad-Empresa
University of Padua
University of Macerata
University of Aarhus
University of Iasi
Militos SA

Project website

DURATION:
36 months
2016 – 2019

BUDGET:
943.518 €

PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES:
Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Colombia, Peru.

Promote a wide virtual network of agents at an international level (universities, companies, and students) in order to improve existing university career guidance services, enhance university students’ employability (through the training of their trainers), and foster knowledge transfer and university-business cooperation in the field of R&D&I.

Fundación Universidad-Empresa
SCTE-IUL
Universidad Austral
Fundacion Universitaria Católica del Norte
Universidad ESAN
Universidad Nacional del Litoral
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Universidad de Piura
Universiteit Maastrich
Corporación Interuniversitaria de Servicioes
Lipomize
University of Wolverhampton
Fashbender Consulting

DURATION:
24 months
2016 – 2018

BUDGET:
293.585 €

PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES:
Spain, Italy, Macedonia, and Finland.

Promote the employability of young university graduates by improving their transferable skills such as entrepreneurship, self-awareness, proactivity, and interpersonal skills.
Improving and supporting the transition from education to the labor market can be achieved through efficient dialogue between universities and companies.
Virtual learning resources were developed, including 6 business-themed modules, virtual company visits, and self-learning and self-assessment exercises.

Fundación Universidad Empresa (ES),
Universidad de Padova (IT, project leader),
Universidad Internacional de la Rioja (ES),
Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas Laurea (FI),
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University en Skopje (MK),
Melius (IT)
Anthea Consulting (IT)

DURATION:
24 months
2014 – 2016

BUDGET:
150.547 €

PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES:
Spain, Scotland, and Lithuania.

Maximize the role of organizations in providing innovative and cost-effective services swiftly to universities and companies to improve the employability of students and graduates through internship programs.
The project includes knowledge exchange, learning best practices, peer reviews, and training, as well as joint outcomes that will improve organizational responses to common challenges.

Fundación Universidad-Empresa
Universidad Camilo José Cela (Spain)
The Saltire Foundation (Scotland)
Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania)
Kaunas Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania)
Klaipeda University (Lithuania)
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (Lithuania)
Vilnius University (Lithuania)
Global Lithuanian Leaders (Lithuania)

Guidelines on establishing and effectively running student/graduate internship programme

DURATION:
24 months
2010 – 2012

BUDGET:
399.799 €

PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES:
Spain, France, Portugal, and Germany.

Identification and analysis of the barriers that prevent the implementation of a European mobility program for recent graduates.
Preparation of a white paper and a common training manual to harmonize procedures for the development of a European internship and employment program for recent graduates.

Fundación Universidad-Empresa
Instituto de Formación Integral
Fundación CIFF
Universidade Catòlica Portuguesa – Porto
Universidad Degli Studi di Padova
Cap Ulysse
Fundacja Rozwoju Przedsiebiorczosci

EUROPEAN PROJECTS THROUGHOUT OUR HISTORY

1980 – 1987
Agencia Espacial Europea Program
25 Research contracts
1981 – 2002
Comunidad Económica Europea / Comisión Euroepa
38 25 Research contracts
1987 – 1995
Comett Program
Management of internships and courses
1990
Sprint Program
From the University to the market place – Universidad de Bochum (Alemania), Universidad de Bolonia (Italia) and Universidad de Utrech (Países Bajos) and Fundación Universidad-Empresa.
1991
Comett Program
Training course on quality control in medical technologies – led by Rigs Hospitalet (Denmark).
1991
Sprint Program
Technology transfer in the manufacturing sector – University of Birmingham (United Kingdom), University of Liège (Belgium), Dublin Technology Partnership (Ireland), Uninova Education and Continuing Education Research (Germany), Regional Development Agency Nord-Pas-de-Calais (France), and University-Business Foundation.
1992
Force Program
Use of new information technologies in vehicles used in international road transport – Leicester City Council (United Kingdom), Fundetec (Portugal), ETSI Industriales UPM (Spain), and Fundacion Universidad-Empresa.
1993
Ecip Program
Business cooperation with Latin America: Toy sector – Spanish Association of Toy Manufacturers, companies in the sector in Spain, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, and University-Business Foundation.
1994
Sprint Program
Workshop on Implementation and Certification in END / Workshop on Industrial Applications of Lasers.

1993 – 1994
Fondo Social Europeo
ENATT (European Network for Advanced Technology Training) – co-financed by the ESF/Community of Madrid – in collaboration with the Polytechnic University of Madrid and various European universities – for unemployed people.
1994 – 1995
Ecip Program
Business cooperation with Latin America: Sector of the Industry of Manufacturers of Capital Goods and Environmental Services – Spanish Association of Manufacturers of Capital Goods and Fundacion Universidad-Empresa.
1994 – 1995
Telemática Program
International Secretariat of ECTF (European Community Telework/Telematics Forum) and Fundacion Universidad-Empresa.
1995 – 1999
Fondo Social Europeo
TECNA (Specialized Training in Advanced Technologies) – co-financed by the ESF/Community of Madrid – for the unemployed.
1996 – 1999
TAPS Program
TEMPLE (Telematics Employment Engine) – coordinated by the ECTF (European Community Telework/Telematics Forum) and the Fundacion Universidad-Empresa
1996 – 1999
Leonardo da Vinci Program
Management of internships at the European level.
1996 – 1998
Leonardo da Vinci Program
ECOCONDA (Telematic Network for Training on Environmental Issues in Large Urban Areas) – DG XII EU – Fundacion Universidad-Empresa, Comillas Pontifical University, Berlin University of Technology, Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Innovation in Education and Training of Thessaloniki, Patras Technological Research Center.
1997 – 1999
Fondo Social Europeo
HERMES (Specialized Training for Technological Innovation – co-financed by the ESF/Community of Madrid – for employees and self-employed workers).

1997 – 2000
ADAPT Community Initiative
FORTEL (Teleworker Training) – Coordinated by the ECTF (European Community Telework/Telematics Forum) and the Fundacion Universidad-Empresa.
1998
Leonardo da Vinci Program
DIÓGENES (International Network for Youth Guidance on mobility, internships, courses, employment, etc.) – Led by the Fundacion Universidad-Empresa / Community of Madrid with partners in Italy, Portugal, and Greece.
1998 – 2000
Leonardo da Vinci Program
ELECTROLYSIS (Telematic Network for Training on the Environmental Impact of Electrical Systems) – DG XII EU – Fundacion Universidad-Empresa, Comillas Pontifical University, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, RIS Electric Company, Endesa, Red Eléctrica, CEPADE, and the Portuguese institutions INESC and the University of Porto.
1998 – 1999
ADAPT Community Initiative
A4EC Project (Adapting four Electronic Commerce) – Coordinated by the ECTF (European Community Telework/Telematics Forum) and the Fundacion Universidad-Empresa.
1998 – 1999
ALFA Program
TUCANO (Trans-Atlantic University/Industry Cooperation Network) – Led by the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom) with participation from European and Latin American universities, Spanish SMEs, and the Fundacion Universidad-Empresa.
1999
ADAPT Community Initiative
FORTEL-BIS (Training Teleworkers Building the Information Society) – Coordinated by the ECTF (European Community Telework/Telematics Forum) and the Fundacion Universidad-Empresa.

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