6/23/16 · Research

The UOC becomes a member of an international community dedicated to open-source software

The UOC has become a member of the Eclipse Foundation, an international community that focuses on open-source software tools and projects – mainly editors and platforms for different programming languages – through industry working groups. The aim is to foster collaboration between businesses and research groups for software development. The UOC is the first and only Catalan university to become an associate member.
The agreement will foster collaboration between businesses and research groups.<br />Photo: Eclipse

The agreement will foster collaboration between businesses and research groups.
Photo: Eclipse

This collaboration agreement will give the UOC the opportunity to prove the importance of research with industry partners and to find out which issues they would like to address first-hand. It will also mean access to funding opportunities that are only open to members of this community.

The UOC is represented in the Eclipse Foundation by SOM Research Lab – led by researcher Jordi Cabot and with connections to ICREA and the IN3 research centre – and is part of the PolarSys industry working group, which is dedicated to the creation of open-source tools for embedded systems. The goal of this working group is to contribute towards the development and expansion of modelling tools for this type of system so that it can be used in industrial settings.

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