The UPC-abertis chair in Transport Infrastructure Management

The UPC-abertis chair in Transport Infrastructure Management, created by abertis in collaboration with the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, carries on educational and research activities in the field of transport infrastructure management.

The director of the chair, Francesc Robusté, is a doctor in Civil Engineering from the UPC, professor in Transport at the same university and director of the Transport Innovation Centre (CENIT), also at the UPC. He is president of the Spanish Forum on Transport Engineering (FIT) and author of more than 250 scientific publications on Transport Engineering.

With regard to education, UPC-abertis chair organises specialist courses and seminars aimed at industry professionals. And as far as research is concerned, the chair organises an abertis Award for research into transport infrastructure management, open to all students —including postgraduates— at Spanish universities. The award consists of a 4,000 euro cash prize and the publication of the winning work.

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The IESE-abertis chair in Regulation, Competition and Public Policy

The goal of the IESE-abertis chair in Regulation, Competition and Public Policy, set up in 2006 by abertis and the IESE business school, is to pursue research, generate ideas and disseminate knowledge in the field of regulation, competition and public policy. The ultimate purpose of research in this area is to disseminate new knowledge and properly train business people and managers. The activities of this chair, occupied by the IESE lecturer Xavier Vives, include case studies, research documents and articles, as well as organising seminars and talks.

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The Chair in Leadership and Democratic Governance

abertis is one of the organisations backing the Chair in Leadership and Democratic Governance set up by the ESADE business school. The mission of this chair is to analyse models of business, public and social governance, as well as studying and promoting innovative leadership formulae able to meet the challenges of today’s society. Especially important among its lines of work are training programmes, organising debates and conferences and preparing studies concerning this subject. This chair, which began its activities in 2005, is occupied by the former president of the Generalitat (autonomous government of Catalonia) Jordi Pujol, and its backers include Isidre Fainé and Salvador Alemany, respectively chairman and managing director of abertis.

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The FEDEA- abertis chair in Infrastructure and Transport Economics

The FEDEA-abertis chair in Infrastructure and Transport Economics was created in 2007 by abertis in collaboration with the Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (Foundation for Applied Economic Studies - FEDEA), an economic research centre created in 1985 by the Bank of Spain. abertis has belonged to the Board of this centre since its inception. The objectives of the FEDEA-abertis chair are to develop research on Infrastructure and Transport Economics issues as well as the organization of seminars and courses to disseminate the research carried out. The holder of the Chair, Gustavo Nombela, is a researcher for FEDEA and has a network of academic collaborators made up of economists specialising in transport and working in Spanish universities, as well as several top-level foreign lecturers (Universities of Harvard, Toulouse, ITS-Leeds, California-Irvine, British Columbia and Brussels).

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