Now more than a hundred UOC Associated Institutions and Companies
[21/01/2008]
The organisations that have established links as UOC Associated Institutions and Companies now exceed one hundred following the signing of the latest agreements. This initiative looks to establish a network of relationships between companies and the university to aid the sharing of experiences so as to contribute to the professional development of each organisation’s employees and, likewise, to the competitiveness of these organisations in the context of the knowledge society.
The organisations that have established links as UOC Associated Institutions and Companies now exceed one hundred following the signing of the latest agreements. This initiative looks to establish a network of relationships between companies and the university to aid the sharing of experiences so as to contribute to the professional development of each organisation’s employees and, likewise, to the competitiveness of these organisations in the context of the knowledge society.
It has been three years since the first company, Sun Microsystems, signed an agreement, in January 2005, which marked the starting point for more than 100 companies and institutions to take part in this network of synergies and gain access to a series of services and features related to training and knowledge. Thus, the professionals linked to these organisations can access bespoke training programmes offered by the University or discounts on different UOC postgraduate and lifelong learning programmes.
UOC Associated Institutions and Companies come from a range of economic and social sectors, and share, among others, the values of contributing to progress in terms of an ethical commitment to society, the organisation’s competitive investment in the knowledge society and the development of their employees through lifelong learning.
Through this association, the University offers training advice services, newsletters that focus on specific areas, and access to the IN3’s library, which specialises in the knowledge society, and the students’ labour exchange. The UOC also regularly organises a range of activities and meetings to promote relations between organisations and to establish new forms of collaboration; such as that which took place in Madrid last November.
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