The University of Jaén and the multinational company Alstom sign a collaboration agreement
The University of Jaén and the multinational company Alstom sign a collaboration agreement
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The University of Jaén and Alstom have signed a collaboration agreement to complete and improve the development of the educational, training and production activities of both entities. Both the teachers and the students of the University of Jaén, at its centres in Jaén and Linares, will have access to knowledge of the techniques and technologies used by Alstom at its Innovation and Technology Centre in Linares. Alstom, on the other hand, will have access to the human and material resources of the university for staff training and applied research. The agreement will last 3 years and can be extended, and will enable both entities to promote knowledge transfer between the faculty of the UJA and the technical staff at Alstom. Also, Alstom will collaborate in the industrial training of UJA students via a series of activities such as seminars imparted by Alstom technicians, technical visits to their industrial facilities, work experience that can be counted as free credit points and work experience contracts according to the current employment regulations.
About Alstom
Alstom carries out all kinds of projects in Spain, such as the design, engineering, manufacture and maintenance of equipment in the sectors of power generation and railway transport. After purchasing the Spanish wind turbine company Ecotècnia, Alstom has become consolidated in Spain as a company of more than 1 billion in sales with a workforce of close to 4,000 workers, and a permanent industrial presence in the Autonomous Regions of Galicia, Castilla y León, Navarra, Catalonia, Madrid, the Basque Country and Andalusia. Alstom is present in Andalusia since the building of the Madrid-Seville high-speed train (AVE), whose carriages were manufactured by Alstom. It has developed important infrastructure works in Andalusia, such as the traction substations of the Córdoba-Málaga high-speed railway or the CBTC signalling in the Málaga underground. It also supplies and develops maintenance work for the suburban trains of Cádiz and Seville together with RENFE, and for the high-speed shuttles in Málaga. Its commitment to development in Andalusia has led Alstom to create an Innovation and Technology Centre in Linares, dedicated to the development and innovation of state-of-the-art technologies in railway signalling, communications and infrastructures; activities that generate employment with high added value. The electrification works for the tram systems of Jaén and Granada will be directed from this centre, as well as the different railway and tram projects in Andalusia considered in the PISTA plan that are awarded to Alstom.