A dozen students from the Technical University of Cartagena (UPCT) have learned how to use software tools for creating master plans for water supplies and sanitation at a course given by the Hidrogea-UPCT Chair.

At the closing ceremony for the course, the Vice-Chancellor for Innovation and Enterprise, Alejandro Pérez, stressed that the goal was to train students for work and allow them to include in their CVs this specialisation course, updated to reflect how companies really work in today’s world.
Also attending the event was Hidrogea CEO, Inmaculada Serrano, who expressed her delight at how the Chair was working and announced to the students that the sanitation and supply systems they were going to work on were real.

The company’s head of Human Resources, Manual Ortín added that ‘having them join us for work experience is the best sort of job interview’. Indeed, most of the eight new grant fellows that the Chair will be selecting to carry out 10-month R&D&I projects will be students from the course, who are all studying in departments of industry and roads and mines.