II INTERNATIONAL TIMMIS CONGRESS

 

0422_TIMMIS_Emprendedurismo_2_E Project

 

Department of Foreign Trade of the University of Valladolid. 

THE CONGRESS

On 20 February 2020, the Faculty of Commerce hosted the II International TIMMIS Congress, within the UVa Foreign Trade Department’s European project 0422_TIMMIS_entrepreneurialism_2_E, developed thanks to ERDF funds through the Interreg POCTEP programme.

The congress was opened by the Deputy Minister for Universities and Research of the Government of Castile and León, Pilar Garcés, and the UVa’s Vice-Rector for Research, Innovation and Transfer, Óscar Martínez, the President of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Orlando Rodrigues, and the Dean of the UVa Faculty of Commerce, José Antonio Salvador Insúa.

Teamwork as the key to successful entrepreneurship and forms of funding were the two topics discussed in the round tables held, involving prominent professionals in the sector from Valladolid and Bragança, such as Rosario Casero (ICO), Carmen Sanz (Sodical), Ana Atienza (Valladolid Chamber of Commerce), Jorge Humberto Sampaio (IPB), Pedro Ignacio Ruiz (UVa Science Park), José Alberto Martín Manjarrés (Castile and León Basketball Federation) and the psychologist Estela Llorente.

Completing the congress, ten TIMMIS teams from the UVa and IPB presented their business projects and ideas to all the attendees in a session closed by the State technical specialist and economist José Manuel Reyero.

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THE AGENDA

 

The Faculty of Commerce hosted the II International TIMMIS Congress on 20 February 2020, on team entrepreneurship and University-Company knowledge transfer, two key aspects developed within the UVa Foreign Trade Department’s European project 0422_TIMMIS_entrepreneurialism_2_E, thanks to ERDF funds through the Interreg POCTEP programme.

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THE CHRONICLE

 

The Deputy Minister for Universities and Research of the Government of Castile and León, Pilar Garcés, and the UVa’s Vice-Rector for Research, Innovation and Transfer, Oscar Martinez, opened the II International TIMMIS Congress, together with the President of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Orlando Rodrigues, and the Dean of the UVa’s Faculty of Commerce, José Antonio Salvador Insúa.

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