Both institutions have signed a collaboration agreement that runs until 2025 and is financed by the company to the tune of 30,000 euros.
The University of Oviedo and the company Elinsa have today signed a collaboration agreement for the creation of the Amper Group Chair, which was created with the aim of promoting training, research and dissemination of control and power electronics solutions in industrial, naval and defence applications. The chair will also promote collaboration between the company and the academic institution in the design and application of initiatives of mutual interest and relevance to Asturian society and will set up company internship programmes.
The chair will carry out various actions aimed at promoting knowledge of control and power electronics solutions both among the students of the University of Oviedo and society as a whole. Specifically, within the framework of the chair, research actions will be carried out, such as the joint development of R&D&I lines, the proposal of national and international research projects, or the acquisition of specific equipment for the development of its lines of work.
In addition, in terms of dissemination and transfer, the new Amper Group chair will organise conferences and issue publications on the subjects within its scope of competence. In training and teaching, it will collaborate in the design and delivery of academic programmes, will set up grants and prizes for final degree or master’s degree projects and doctoral theses, will finance extracurricular external internships and will organise conferences, seminars, workshops, etc.
For all this, the company Elinsa and the University of Oviedo have signed an agreement that will be in force until 2025. The funding provided by the company is 30,000 euros (7,500 euros for 2023, 15,000 for 2024 and 7,500 for 2025).
Carlos Rivas, R&D&I director at Elinsa-Grupo Amper, stressed that the new Amper Group Chair “is another step forward in the long history of collaboration that we began with the university some ten years ago”. This new milestone consolidates our collaboration, research and knowledge transfer between both entities. All this, framed in one of the key technologies of the next energy transition and its evolution in various fields such as transport and industry”. “This chair aims to be a catalyst of opportunities for all stakeholders in the transfer of knowledge in the process of developing these technologies”.
Ignacio Villaverde, rector of the University of Oviedo, who attended the signing accompanied by Begoña Cueto, vice-rector for Transfer and Business Relations, explained that “this agreement is a great step forward, since, in order to look to the future, university and business must go hand in hand”. “We are very grateful to Elinsa, because we understand that the signing of this agreement reaffirms the clear commitment that companies make to enhance the skills of those who will be the engineers of tomorrow”, she said, adding that “the university has the knowledge that the business world needs to face the new challenges that arise in these times of dizzying change, we are able to think about the future and to experience it”.
Also present at the signing ceremony were Marcelino Pernas Barcia, Head of Business Development, Energy and Control Technologies at Elinsa-Grupo Amper; Jorge García García, Director of the Transfer and Business Chairs Area at the University of Oviedo; David Díaz Reigosa and Juan Manuel Guerrero Muñoz, both professors in the Department of Electrical, Electronic, Communications and Systems Engineering at the University of Oviedo; and Santiago Fernández, Director of the University of Oviedo Foundation.
