Association
The e-MTA Campus project is supported by numerous associated members including political institutions, universities and national and international companies, which have been selected because of their leadership in the strategic fields of tourism and water.
Below, the most important institutions are highlighted, and briefly described including an explanation of their complementary features and the added value for the differentiation and specialisation of the proposed campus model.
New Associates:
- La Garrotxa environment and public health association (SIGMA)
- VU Amsterdam University
- Figueres City Council
- Max Planck
- PRES-PM agreement
- PRES-PM AECT agreement
- PRES-PM AECT by-laws
- Agbar (ADN-CETaqua)
- Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña
- Microsoft
- Instituto de Investigaciones Agroambientales y de Economía del Agua (INAGEA, centro INIA-CAIB-UIB)
- Plataforma Tecnológica Española del Agua
- Water.cat
- Centro Interuniversitario de Desarrollo (CINDA)
- Asociación Orión
Political Institutions
Both universities are strongly committed to the social and economic structure of their respective territorial areas. Since the UIB is the only university in the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands, it benefits from the utmost involvement by the Regional Government. This is proven by the document signed at its headquarters on 3 March 2010, initially subscribed by 47 political, scientific and business institutions. The project also benefits from the support of the Regional Government of Catalonia. It is thus a project shared by two autonomous communities and can rely on the strengths and potential of both of them. The project’s objectives are the same as in the Balearic Islands Science, Technology and Innovation Plan 2009-2012. They are also the same as those contained in the Catalan Government’s Research and Innovation Plan, which has assigned the University of Girona the leading role in all matters concerning water. The plan identifies the UdG and its region with one of the 10 reference poles recognized in Catalonia, the Food and Agriculture Innovation and Water Pole. The integrated project’s alignment with both governments’ scientific objectives has also allowed for the explicit support of the Provincial Government of Girona, the Island Councils of Majorca, Minorca and Ibiza and Formentera, along with the main city councils and local and regional government institutions in the territories where the e-MTA Campus is located (the City Councils of Palma, Girona, Ibiza, Alaior, Banyoles, etc. A full membership list is given on the website).
We should make special reference to the Spanish General Secretary of Tourism joining the project, which strengthens the UIB’s involvement in the pilot project for the Palma Beach regeneration and recognises Tourism Sustainability as one of the Spanish Government’s strategic focal points for the Balearic Islands.
Universities and Scientific Members
We must highlight the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) membership, as its supplementary role in the e-MTA Campus is a decisive factor for creating a water cluster in its twofold aspect: academic and research. The e-MTA Campus can also rely on the added value of the complementary role provided by the French universities in the PRES-PM cross-border group. The PRES-PM by-laws and strategic plan are aimed at Tourism and Water as their main strategic fields (see section 2.8).
At a university level the Campus also has the support of the Spanish Water Treatment Board (META), with more than 40 universities and research centres actively working in the field of water management, and the University of Vic and the International University of Catalonia joining the project. Both universities will take an active role as participants in the development of actions related to teaching and knowledge transfer, especially in the LFCA and LAS lines. Finally, it also has the support of international universities and associations in Brazil, Colombia, Argentina and China, among others.
The inclusion of the Spanish Oceanographic Institute (IEO), whose researchers at the Balearic Islands Centre collaborate as scientists with several competitive groups of the UIB, is essential for the development of the Master in Marine Ecology. The Spanish Agrarian and Food Research and Technology Institute (INIA) joining the project has led to the creation of the Agro-Environmental and Water Economy Research Institute (INAGEA, INIA-CAIB-UIB centre). Similarly, the National Meteorology Agency, member of this association and with a weather station in the Campus, collaborates with various competitive groups of the UIB.
Two scientific facilities in the Balearic Islands, the Tourism Research, Development and Innovation Centre (CIDTUR), with the UIB being a member on its Management Board, and the scientific and technical singular facility Coastal Observation System of the Balearic Islands (SOCIB), together with the Landscape Observatory of Catalonia, the Agro-Territorial Foundation, the Historical Research Institute, or the UNESCO Unitwin International Culture, Tourism and Development Network, participate in the project and clearly contribute to the transfer of knowledge and innovation in the field of tourism and coastal systems. These institutions have a consolidated history in collaboration with groups of the UIB, UdG, ICRA and the relevant centres of the CSIC.
We should also highlight the beneficial collaboration, mainly through the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies IMEDEA, with the Palma Beach Consortium, supported by the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands, the Island Council of Majorca, the City Council of Palma and the City Council of Llucmajor. Its mission is to carry out the national government project to regenerate this mature tourist area and export the model to other areas of Spain. This consortium will be the cornerstone on the subject of regenerating tourist areas, a subject identified within the innovation ecosystems.
In the Food and Health Line the cooperation with the Agrofood Technology Research Institute (IRTA) stands out, specifically for its Food Technology Centre of Monells and the Mas Badia de La Tallada Foundation, along with the Centre of New Food Processes and Technologies (CENTA). It has a strong impact for the e-MTA Campus on R&D&I, teaching and employability aspects. Finally, we must highlight the role that institutions such as the Farmers Union can play in the innovation ecosystems.
Scientific and technological parks
The University-Company Foundation (FUEIB) and the Government of the Balearic Islands will contribute to the transfer of knowledge through the setting-up of various programmes, such as: the technological developers programme, the research appreciation programme, the RESET programme to encourage entrepreneurship and the programme to set up spin-offs. We carry out this action in the business incubator at the Balearic Technological Innovation Park (ParcBit) – a technological park with 130 companies and 2,500 workers – and in the future we will extend it to the Bit Centre in Minorca. Both facilities are adjacent to the university campuses of Palma and Alaior. The UIB has signed specific collaboration agreements with each of them to promote and develop innovation and transfer actions related to the campus of excellence project. We must point out that the construction of a UIB building in the ParcBit is currently in process. The building under construction will house university institutes.
The government promotes the creation of business clusters such as Tourism.T, which includes the large hotel companies, hotel federations and associations of hotel chains, and the UIB. This cluster ensures an overall synergy with the major tour operators, which will be able to apply the research progress in the field of Tourism Sustainability through CIDTUR. ParcBit also hosts the clusters of new technologies applied to tourism (TurisTEC), the Audiovisual cluster – collaborator in the e-Campus transversal axis-, the nautical cluster IDMAR and the biotechnology cluster BIOIB, which are associate members of the Campus of Excellence project and reinforce the campus’ lines of specialisation.
The Scientific and Technological Park of the University of Girona (PCiT) is the main promoter of economic development based on knowledge and technology. Its membership in the e-MTA Campus will facilitate relations and create synergies and collaborations with the various players in the process, as well as with business assets and institutions in the nearby area. It also provides and offers incentives the connection of all these players with the global territory, thus acting as an innovation ecosystem. The PCiT is related with the various players involved in its objectives, such as the CDTI, the Association of Spanish Scientific and Technological Parks and the Network of Catalan Scientific and Technological Parks. It also belongs to the International Association of Science Parks (IASP), one of the main international associations of scientific and technological parks.
Finally, the Consortium of Territorial Business Incubators should be highlighted. Its role in the e-MTA Campus is to promote and disseminate the territorial company incubators, in order to take advantage of its great potential for generating ideas and providing all the tools needed to help new entrepreneurs with their projects.
Social and Business Players
In the Tourism Line, we should highlight the fact that some of the largest Spanish hotel chains, with headquarters in the territory of the Campus, have joined the e-MTA Campus project: Sol-Meliá, which has a highly productive collaboration relationship with the UIB through the Sol-Melià Tourist Studies Professorship; Barceló and Riu; along with all the hotel and business associations on the Balearic Islands. Also Telefónica with its Telefónica Professorship on Digital Health and Sustainable Tourism, Microsoft with its collaboration in Tourism ICT, Banco de Santander in headhunting, La Caixa with the summer school and support to spin-offs, and, finally, Endesa, TIRME, MAC Insular and Sampol. Ski resorts, water parks and ecologists associations have also provided their support to the Campus, which shows that the project is of interest to very different sectors. In a more overall manner, the project is also participated by the chambers of commerce of Girona, Majorca and Minorca. The innovation ecosystems table (see below) summarises the role of these players.
Regarding the Water line of specialisation, the membership of Agbar-ADN-CETaqua stands out by means of a collaboration framework agreement that, among other aspects, helps the joint development of education actions such as the following: joint development of vocational training courses; participation by assignment in the processes for drawing up course plans for the degrees of the e-MTA Campus related to water; degree student internships; end of course projects and job search for the graduates of the e-MTA Campus; or joint development of research projects and transfer of technology and knowledge in the field of water.
The membership of the Catalan Water Agency (ACA), a public institution of the Regional Government of Catalonia in charge of enforcing the water policy in this territory, contributes considerably to achieving the objectives of the integrated Campus. Another beneficial membership is that of the Costa Brava Consortium (CCB), which is an autonomous body with its own legal status. It is composed of the Provincial Council of Girona and 27 town councils along the Girona coast. Both the ACA and the CCB can provide and transfer extensive experience in water resource management to the students of the e-MTA Campus.
We must also highlight the support from the Spanish Platform for Water Technology. It is a public and private cooperation network, promoted by the Ministry for Science and Innovation (MICINN), the Industrial Technological Development Centre (CDTI) and the Ministry for the Environment, and Rural and Marine Environment (MARM). It has the objective of promoting industry-led R&D&I among the national scientific and technological players and the rest of the water business sector (it contains more than 200 important institutions in the sector). Similarly, the membership of Water.cat in the water specialisation line of the e-MTA Campus facilitates visibility at an international level. This visibility will help create opportunities for conducting collaborative R&D in the field of water, and strengthen the global competition of the sector. Water.cat is a Connect-EU network promoted by ACC1Ó (The Regional Government of Catalonia) specialised in the water sector, led by the ICRA, and consisting of a total of 39 research institutions and companies.
The Food and Health line of specialisation counts on the membership of the meat cluster INNOVAC, an association of more than 80 innovating companies in Girona financed by the Spanish Ministry of Industry.
More than 150 SMEs from the whole of Catalonia can be added to this network of associated businesses involved in the project. They have signed specific cooperation agreements, in particular in the field of tourism, proving the project’s level of penetration in the socio-economic fabric of the territory, and the importance of the project regarding employability in the region.
Within the business framework, the support received from the organisation National Promotion of Work in Catalonia and the Business Organisations Federation of Girona is also significant. Both institutions have signed agreements with the e-MTA Campus. The agreements are specially addressed to promote internships and end of course projects of the UIB and UdG students in their associate companies, above all in those related to the action lines of the Campus, a fact that will certainly have a huge impact on improving employability of the students.
List of Associated Members:
- Agbar (ADN-CETaqua)
- Agencia Catalana del Agua (ACA)
- Agencia Estatal de Meteorología
- Agrupación de Cadenas Hoteleras de Balears
- Aiguadepluja Innovación SL
- Aigües de Banyoles SA
- Aigües Ter Llobregat
- AM Gualba SL
- Asociación Catalana de Universidades Públicas (ACUP)
- Asociación Comerciantes de Roses (ACOR)
- Asociación de Cámpings de Girona
- Asociación de Fabricantes para Agua y Riego Españoles
- Asociación de Guías de Girona
- Asociación de Parques Acuáticos de Cataluña
- Asociación de Residencias Casas de Payés del Pallars Jussà
- Asociación Estación Náutica L’Estartit-Illes Medes
- Asociación Hostalaje de la Garrotxa
- Asociación Hostaleria de Girona y Radial
- Asociación Hotelera de Menorca
- Asociación Orión
- Asociación Turística de Pals
- Ayuntamiento de Alaior
- Ayuntamiento de Banyoles
- Ayuntamiento de Besalú
- Ayuntamiento de Caldes de Malavella
- Ayuntamiento de Calella
- Ayuntamiento de Eivissa
- Ajuntamiento de Figueres
- Ayuntamiento de Girona
- Ayuntamiento de Olot
- Ayuntamiento de Palma
- Ayuntamiento de Sant Carles de la Ràpita
- Ayuntamiento de Sant Hilari Sacalm
- Ayuntamiento de Sarrià de Ter
- Ayuntamiento de Serinyà
- Balneari Prats SA
- Bancaja
- Banco de Santander
- Barceló Corporación Empresarial
- Bombas Elécticas SA (ESPA)
- Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo (CAM)
- Cámara de Comercio, Industria y Navegación de Mallorca
- Cámara de Comercio, Industria y Navegación de Menorca
- Cámara Oficial de Comercio, Industria y Navegación de Girona
- Camper SL
- Campus Agroalimentario de Girona
- Cátedra Banca March de la Empresa Familiar
- Cátedra Bancaja de Jóvenes Emprendedores (UIB)
- Cátedra Bancaja de Jóvenes Emprendedores (UdG)
- Cátedra Cámara de Empresa Familiar
- Cátedra de Ecosistemas Litorales Mediterráneos
- Cátedra de Estudios Marítimos
- Cátedra de Geografía y Pensamiento Territorial
- Cátedra de Procesos Industriales Sostenibles
- Cátedra de Promoción de la Salud
- Cátedra de Salud Rural
- Cátedra de Seguridad y Salud
- Cátedra Endesa Red de Innovación Energética
- Cátedra Llabrés Feliu
- Cátedra Lluís A. Santaló de Aplicaciones de la Matemática
- Cátedra Unesco Sa Nostra
- Cátedra Unesco de Desarrollo Humano Sostenible
- Cátedra Sampol de Domótica y Eficiencia Energética
- Cátedra Sol Meliá de Estudios Turísticos
- Centro BitMenorca (ParcBIT)
- Centro de Investigación e Innovación de las Industrias Turísticas (CRIIT)
- Centro de Investigación Económica (CRE)
- Centro de Investigación en Materiales Avanzados (CIMAV)
- Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo para el Turismo (CIDTUR)
- Centro de Nuevas Tecnologías y Procesos Alimentarios (CENTA)
- Centro Interuniversitario de Desarrollo (CINDA)
- Clúster Audiovisual de las Illes Balears
- Clúster Balears T
- Clúster náutico IDMAR
- Clúster tecnológico BIOIB
- Clúster TurisTEC
- Colonya Caixa d’Estalvis de Pollença
- Confederación de Asociaciones Empresariales de Baleares (CAEB)
- Consejería de Asuntos Sociales, Promoción e Inmigración de las Illes Balears
- Consejería de Economía, Hacienda e Innovación de las Illes Balears
- Consejería de Educación de Catalunya – IES Montilivi
- Consejería de Turismo del Gobierno de las Illes Balears
- Consejo Comarcal del Gironès
- Consejo Comarcal del Pla de l’Estany
- Consejo Económico y Social de las Illes Balears
- Consejo Insular de Eivissa
- Consejo Insular de Formentera
- Consejo Insular de Mallorca
- Consejo Insular de Menorca
- Consorcio Alba-Ter
- Consorcio Costa Brava (CCB)
- Consorcio de las Vías Verdes de Girona
- Consorcio de Viveros de Empresas Territoriales de Girona
- Consorcio del Estany de Banyoles
- Consorcio del Observatorio del Paisaje de Cataluña
- Construcciones Llabrés Feliu
- Comisiones Obreras (CC.OO.)
- Dipsalut
- Diputación de Girona
- Eivissa Music Clúster
- Endesa. Consejo Asesor en Baleares
- Erasmus Mundus Masters in Vision & Robotics (VIBOT)
- Erasmus Mundus European Master in Tourisme Management (EMTM)
- Escuela Universitaria de Fisioterapia Garbí
- Escuela Universitaria de Hoteleria y Turismo de Sant Pol de Mar (EUHT StPOL)
- Escuela Universitaria de Turismo CETA – Centro de Enseñanzas en Turismo y Actividades de Ocio SL
- Escuela Universitaria de Turismo Euroaula
- Escuela Universitaria de Turismo Formatic Barna – Formatic Barna SA
- Escuela Universitaria de Turismo Mediterrani – C.E.RENF’OS SL
- Escuela Universitaria ERAM – Fundación Privada Escuela de Gestión
- Federación de Organizaciones Empresariales de Girona
- Federación de la Pequeña y Mediana Empresa de Eivissa y Formentera (PIME Eivissa-Formentera)
- Federación de la Pequeña y Mediana Empresa de Mallorca (PIMEM)
- Federación de la Pequeña y Mediana Empresa de Menorca (PIMEM)
- Federación Empresarial Hotelera de Eivissa-Formentera
- Federación Empresarial Hotelera de Mallorca
- Federación Hostaleria de las Comarcas de Girona
- Figueres de Serveis SA (FISERSA)
- Fluidra SA
- Fomento del Trabajo Nacional
- Fundación Agroterritorio
- Fundación Barceló
- Fundación Casa de Cultura de Girona
- Fundación Caubet-CIMERA
- Fundación Estudios Superiores de Olot
- Fundación Gala-Salvador Dalí
- Fundación Mateu Orfila
- Fundación Mapfre
- Fundación para el Desarrollo de la Cultura, la Sostenibilidad i la Innovación (Fundestic)
- Fundación Promediterránea para la conservación, el estudio y la difusión del patrimonio marítimo
- Fundación Triptolemos
- Fundación UdG-Medicina
- Fundación Universidad-Empresa de las Illes Balears (FUEIB)
- G9 – Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey México
- G9 – Univalue
- Generalitat de Catalunya
- Govern de les Illes Balears
- Grupo Riu
- Hotel Peralada WineSpa & Golf
- Incatis SL
- Institución Catalana de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados (ICREA)
- Instituto Catalán de la Salud (ICS)
- Instituto Catalán de Oncología (ICO)
- Instituto de Asistencia Sanitaria (IAS)
- Instituto de Física Interdisciplinaria de Sistemas Complejos (IFISC)
- Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Girona (IdIBGi)
- Instituto de Investigación en Tecnologías Alimentarias (IRTA)
- Instituto de Investigaciones Agroambientales y de Economía del Agua (INAGEA, centro INIA-CAIB-UIB)
- Instituto de Turismo de España (Turespaña)
- Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO)
- Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados (IMEDEA)
- Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Ciencias de la Salud (IUNICS)
- La Caixa – Caixa d’Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona
- Laboratorios Sanifit SL
- Mac Insular
- Max Planck Geselleschaft
- Mesa Española del Tratamiento del Agua (META)
- Microsoft Innovation Center. Tourisme Technologies
- Ministerio de Turismo y Deporte de Uruguay
- Museo de Arte de Girona
- Nereo Preservador del Medio Ambiente
- Novara Hotels SL
- Parque Balear de Innovación Tecnológica (ParcBIT)
- Parque Científico y Tecnológico de la Universitat de Girona (PCyT)
- Parque Natural de los Aiguamolls del Empordà
- Patronato de Turismo Costa Brava SA
- Patronato de Turismo del Valle de Ribes
- Patronato del Call de Girona
- Plataforma Tecnológica Española del Agua
- PRES-PM convenio de creacion
- PRES-PM convenio AECT
- PRES-PM estatutos AECT
- Programa Ramón y Cajal
- Proveïments d’Aigua SA (Prodaisa)
- Red Vives de Universidades
- Riegos de Cataluña SAU (REGSA)
- Sa Nostra – Caixa de Balears
- Sampol Ingeniería y Obras SA
- Sarfa SL
- Secretaría de Estado de Turismo
- Sistema de Observación Costera de las Illes Balears (SOCIB – OceanBit)
- Sistema Tec de Monterrey
- Sol Meliá SA
- Telefónica España
- TIRME SA
- Turismo Garrotxa
- Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT)
- Universidad de Vic
- Universidad de Tianjin (China)
- Universidade dol Extremo Sul Catarinense (Brasil)
- Universidad Internacional de Cataluña
- Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
- Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina)
- Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya
- Universidad Técnica de Bolívar (Colombia)
- Vallter SA
- Water.Cat – Connect-EU Aqua
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution