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Other Industrial Funding and Collaborations
Other forms of collaboration with industry include the industrial funding of research
assistants working at the Institute, (e.g., Microsoft funds research students working on
software verification and security), research stays of Institute researchers at company
premises (e.g., Institute researchers have made industrially-funded extended stays at
Deimos Space, Microsoft Redmond in the US, or Microsoft Cambridge in the UK),
access to the Institute’s technology and scientific results (e.g., researchers of the Institute
frequently meet with representatives from the most relevant companies in the IT
sector to present research results). In addition, the Institute is open to giving access to
the Institute’s researchers as consultants and to the participation of company staff in
Institute activities.
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Academic Partnerships
An important way to cooperate with other academic institutions is through collaborative
projects funded through competitive calls or industrial contracts. The Institute has also
established longer-term, strategic partnerships with a number of research institutions in
the Madrid region and elsewhere to reach objectives that go beyond those of individual
projects. At present the Institute has active long-term agreements with the following
universities and research centers:
• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
• Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
• Universidad Rey Juan Carlos.
• Roskilde University, Denmark.
• Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.
• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich.
These agreements establish a framework to develop collaborations that go beyond research
projects and include, e.g., the joint development of graduate programs, shared use of
resources, equipment, and infrastructure, the association of researchers and research
groups with the Institute, or joint commercialization of technology.
As examples that illustrate the importance of these agreements, the agreement with the
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) included hosting the Institute building in its
Montegancedo Science and Technology Park and paves the way for teaching activities
at different levels at the School of CS of the UPM, including the supervision of research
assistants registered as PhD students at UPM.
Under the agreement with Roskilde University, one of its full professors —John Gallagher—
is also part-time senior researcher at the Institute. As mentioned before, the
agreement with ETH Zurich has included the joint development and commercialization of