Registration open for the webinar "Employability and university training in the field of Economics and Business"
With this new seminar, AQU Catalunya continues to disseminate the results of the survey carried out with the support of the “la Caixa” Banking Foundation.
AQU Catalunya has organised a webinar on 20 July titled Employability and university training in Economics and Business, at which it will present the results of the third Employers survey (2020-2023). As a new feature in this edition, employers from this sector were asked about the competencies of students on internships.
Jaume Valls, director of AQU Catalunya, will open the webinar with a welcome address.
We will then hear from Prof. Thierry Burger-Helmchen, professor of Innovation Management and Deputy Vice-President for Learning and Teaching at the University of Strasbourg.
Next will be a presentation by Josep Lluís Mateos, who headed the survey of employers at AQU Catalunya, titled "Employability and university training in the field of Economics and Business".
Finally, there will be a round table discussion with the participation of Joan Tugores, professor of Economic Theory and former rector of the University of Barcelona; Queralt Aymerich, who graduated from the University of Vic–Central University of Catalonia with a degree in Business Administration and Management and is now a business intelligence specialist at Intermas Group; and a person representing the employer group, who will focus on addressing the challenges in university training in the field of Economics and Business. The debate will be moderated by Maria Jesús Martínez-Argüelles, dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC).
The webinar is open to the entire university community and is aimed at university leaders in general and those responsible for the discipline analysed in particular; at university technical units; at quality assurance agencies; at members of the Economists' Association of Catalonia; at employers; at government officials; at graduates; at teachers and students in general; and at other stakeholders.
Follow the link for the webinar programme and register using the form.