Huawei signs agreement with Madrid university

Chinese telecommunication giant, Huawei and the Technical University of Madrid (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid) signed an agreement on Wednesday to develop the educational project 'Liderando la era LTE' (Leading the LTE era).

Don Carlos Conde Lazaro, the Rector at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM) and Walter Ji, the CEO of Huawei Espana (Huawei Spain) signed the five accord which make up the program, which is aimed at training university students and giving an impulse to the educational environment through the use of cutting edge technology such as LTE (4G) and LTE A, while also making the use of new generation networks more readily accessible.

Leading in the LTE Era, contains four basic pillars, the first of which is a postgraduate course in mobile communications, imparted jointly by professors at ETSIT and Huawei Spain.

The second pillar is the session of application licenses LTE Star 6.0 to allow the implementation of a virtual laboratory designed by Huawei.

The third pillar consists of six months work experience in Huawei Spain, while the final pillar sees Huawei sponsor a study over the problems and challenges in giving access to LTE 30 mbps networks in rural areas of Spain.

This is the first agreement Huawei Spain has signed with a Spanish University and it is hoped it will be a huge benefit to the students at UPM, who will be able to combine their studies with a degree and also the work experience which will aid their entry into the labor market.

Meanwhile the virtual laboratory will aid the staff at the university while the studies into making LTE more widely available will have wide-ranging benefits outside of the academic sphere.

"This project is a sign of the compromise this company maintains with Spanish society in the field of education. It is also an honor to work hand in hand with UPM, an institution which has educated many of the current leaders in the technology, information and communication market," commented Walter Ji, who added that, "in a global and competitive world such as the one we live, education is vital to create job opportunities. We hope this agreement is the first step to carry on collaboration in the area of investigation and education related to new technology such as LTE."

Meanwhile Carlos Conde said the agreement was interesting "for many reasons," and highlighted that the fact Huawei is a Chinese company represented the "intense academic and investigative co-operation that UPM has maintained with different universities and technological companies in China."