Road safety has joined the multiple fields for which the scholarships students of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) are developing researches and innovations.

All this, thanks to the creation of a new Chair named “Road Technology Research, SP”.

The agreement of this new Chair has been signed by the Rector of the University, Alejandro Díaz, and by Fulgencio and María José Palazón, both administrators of the Spanish Company of design and invention of systems.

“It is a new profile of company in the Chairs network” has emphasized the Vice-rector, Alejandro Pérez”, while the entrepreneurs have pointed up: “we are very excited to be present at the University and to collaborate with other Chairs”.

The Chair will offer scholarships for university students of Cartagena to practice their knowledge in the design of mechanical systems in road safety. Training and fostering activities of innovation, among students of mechanical engineering, are other objectives which are considered in the signed agreement.

Those students will perform experiments and studies for new technological developments and the Faculty of Sciences of the Enterprise will also bring its knowledge in business management, as the responsibles of Sistemas Palazón have explained.