The Polytechnic University of Catalunya (UPC) and everis have created the everis Chair in innovation and promotion of research, studies and careers in the field of IT, located in the Faculty of Computer Science in Barcelona (FIB) of UPC after reaching an agreement on May 5 in Barcelona.
The Chair is co-directed by Ruth Raventos, Vice Dean of Relations with IFF companies, and Xavier Franch, member of the Research Group on Software Engineering for Information Systems (GESSI) of the UPC.
The Chair's activities are focused on research activities, training, innovation, knowledge transfer and dissemination, with two main objectives. On the one hand, promoting IT studies and the UPC associated with this area, specifically the official degree and master's degree offered by the FIB-in order to address the decrease in the number of professionals in the field of information technology in recent years. In this sense, thanks to the particular experience of each organization, we are working together to connect the labor market with training, learning and the employment of this area.