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The Cosme Álvarez de los Ríos Chair was created as a result of the collaboration between the UDC and Navantia. Its main objective will be to promote the exchange of experiences in the fields of teaching, research and culture in general.
Its direct application will boost the practical training of the UDC students in the naval and industrial field, will award prizes to those students who have excelled in specific activities, will encourage the execution of internships in the company (which may be associated with scholarships for the realization of Final Degree Projects and Master’s), will collaborate with the realization of doctoral theses, support other specific projects and organize a calendar of conferences.
The development of its activities will have a great influence on the implementation of Shipyard 4.0, as well as the establishment of the Industrial Campus.
The Lieutenant General Mr. Cosme Alvarez de los Rios, who gives his name to this chair, was responsible for the start of the works in the Shipyard and in the Arsenal of Ferrol in the mid-eighteenth century. His remarkable influence in the urban physiognomy makes him the most adequate personality to represent the duality of this chair
Directors: Mrs. Ana Álvarez García & Mr. Rafael Morgade Abeal
Email: catedra.navantia@udc.es
Headquarters: Escuela Politécnica Superior