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Institutional and Business Chairs
The Institutional and Business Chairs are an ideal instrument for providing stable collaboration between the ULL and the companies and institutions in our region, with a view to achieving objectives of common interest:
- They allow for the development of joint projects and programs with public entities, companies, and any organization with its own legal personality, whether public or private.
- Its main purpose is to develop training, research, dissemination, and knowledge transfer activities that may have a direct and/or indirect impact on society.
- Each Chair may have one or, at most, two main sponsoring entities.
The University of La Laguna, through the Vice-Rectorate for Culture and University Outreach, intends to continue promoting the creation of Institutional and Business Chairs, as well as definitively consolidate this new structure of activities to deepen its connection with the society of which we are a part.
Contact information
- Secretariat of Institutional and Business Chairs
- (+34) 922 31 96 01
- direccion.catedras@ull.es
Chair of Agrotourism and Wine Tourism of the Canary Islands of the Canary Islands Institute of Agri-Food Quality, University of La Laguna
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The Canary Islands Chair of Agrotourism and Wine Tourism is an institutional chair of the University of La Laguna and the Government of the Canary Islands through the Canary Islands Institute of Agrifood Quality. It promotes research and knowledge transfer in the fields of agrotourism and wine tourism. Its main objective is to raise awareness and contribute to the responsible, sustainable, and accessible development of tourism in direct contact with agricultural activities.
To achieve this, the Chair will generate and disseminate knowledge and experience acquired in agrotourism and wine tourism with companies in the primary sector: ensuring the responsible development of the sector, advising companies and public administrations, and offering specialized training.
The Chair's mission is to address projects and issues related to agrotourism and wine tourism, always understood in a responsible and accessible manner.
Therefore, the Chair will develop the following lines of activity:
– Structure and research
– Training and consulting
– Awareness raising and opinion creation
In addition, a parallel task of identifying university and external resources that can also contribute to the established objectives is proposed, taking into account the results and orientations of the "Grow Together" projects of the Government of the Canary Islands, and the Cultural Classroom of Wine and Gastronomic Tourism of the University of La Laguna.
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With the creation of the Cajasiete Chair of Social and Cooperative Economy by virtue of the collaboration agreement signed on January 11, 2017, the aim is to establish a framework for collaboration whose objective is to bring students, professors, researchers and society in general closer to the reality of cooperative societies, labor societies, mutual societies, society-company foundations, economic interest groups, social enterprises, savings banks, reciprocal guarantee societies, non-profit associations, which make up the concept of Social Economy.
The Cajasiete Chair of Social and Cooperative Economy, hereinafter CESCO, is the first of its kind to be created in the Canary Islands and represents a significant step forward in university support for a sector of our socioeconomic fabric whose potential society seems to have yet to fully appreciate. The proposal is to create a space dedicated entirely to research, training, and dissemination in the field of Social and Cooperative Economy, with the participation of both university students and industry professionals, understood in its broadest sense.
Research projects, teaching activities, and training courses for administrators and managers of companies and Social Economy entities in the various fields and sectors that affect them will be promoted. Workshops, seminars, and conferences will be held for students, partners, administrators, and company executives.
Cajasiete Chair of Social and Cooperative Economy, University of La Laguna
Chair of Nursing, Official College of Nurses of Santa Cruz de Tenerife-University of La Laguna
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This chair, created under the collaboration agreement signed on October 13, 2016, between the Official College of Nurses of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the University of La Laguna, aims to promote training, dissemination, and research studies on nursing activities.
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The CajaCanarias-University of La Laguna Chair of Economics and Mobility, formerly known as the Chair of International Economics and Finance, adopted this new name in July 2016 with the aim of giving it an additional focus on mobility.
The Chair is affiliated with the University Institute for Regional Development, a research center located in the Faculty of Economics, Business, and Tourism building at the ULL. Its director is Rosa Marina González Marrero, professor of fundamentals of economic analysis in the Department of Economics, Accounting, and Finance at the ULL.
This Chair began operating in 2010, and during the 2010-2012 period, the Chair's sponsors were the ICO Foundation and the Tenerife Island Council. Vicente Esteve, Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Valencia and the University of Alcalá, and an external researcher assigned to the University Institute for Regional Development at the ULL, was the Chair's director from 2010 to 2012. In 2013, the Chair was inactive due to the absence of a sponsor. From 2014 to July 2016, the Chair was directed by Manuel Navarro Ibáñez, Professor of Fundamentals of Economic Analysis at the ULL.
Since 2014, the CajaCanarias Foundation has promoted this Chair, which represents a meeting place for the university and business worlds of the Canary Islands on all matters related to the economy and mobility.
The Chair of Economics and Mobility focuses, although not exclusively, on the following thematic areas:
- Transport, mobility and infrastructure
- Competition and regulation
- Energy
- Foreign sector
- Public finances
- Economic and Fiscal Regime
- Public services: health, education and social policies
- Sustainable development
- Environment
- Economic growth, inequality and poverty
This Chair is primarily dedicated to the development of the following activities:
Promote the mobility of postgraduate students in activities related to the Chair.
Organization and development of training activities such as courses, seminars, workshops, and keynote lectures related to the Chair's topics.
Develop research programs related to economics and mobility.
Support, where appropriate, the publication of articles, monographs, book chapters, and books on the topics studied by the Chair.
Develop cultural activities and disseminate teaching and research activities related to the Chair.
Chair of Economics and Mobility, CajaCanarias, University of La Laguna
DISA Foundation Chair of Young Entrepreneurs at the University of La Laguna
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An initiative of the University of La Laguna and the Disa Foundation aimed at promoting entrepreneurship and business creation among university students, as well as research on entrepreneurship. The activities to be developed by the Disa Foundation Chair for Young Entrepreneurs at the University of La Laguna focus on the dissemination, promotion, training, and research of entrepreneurial activity.
Likewise, the Chair is committed to promoting innovative and experimental educational projects related to fostering entrepreneurial activity at the University, all with a youthful and relaxed spirit.
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It was established on March 17, 2017, through an agreement between the ULL and the MAPFRE Foundation.
The general objective of the "TecnoEdu" Chair is to organize knowledge transfer activities on ICT and education, both in the university context and within Canary Islands society.
In its first year of operation, the new chair will focus its activities on three major areas: the convening of competitions and awards on technological innovation for education, educational innovation with ICT, and entrepreneurship; the organization of academic events on educational technology; and the creation of the chair's website and the platform that will host the ULL MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) course offering.
Mapfre Canarias Foundation Chair of Technology and Education at the University of La Laguna
Chair of Environment and Sustainable Development, Tenerife Island Council – University of La Laguna
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The Chair of Environment and Sustainable Development of the Tenerife Island Council – University of La Laguna was created by agreement of the Governing Council of the Tenerife Island Council, in a session held on September 5, 2017, and by the corresponding Governing Council of the University of La Laguna.
The chair aims to promote training, dissemination, and research studies in fields related to sustainability in all three aspects: social, economic, and environmental. It also aims to consolidate existing lines of research in sustainability and incorporate new ones, and to enhance curricular greening at the ULL (teacher and student training programs) and foster teaching innovation in sustainability issues.
Additionally, the chair also aims to provide training to technical staff from the administration and from private sector companies and associative fabric in the field of sustainability, facilitate the transfer of knowledge, innovation and good practices to administrations, companies and society in general in matters of sustainability, raise awareness and disseminate the concept of sustainable development and the economic models compatible with it, responsible lifestyle and consumption habits, as well as raise awareness in society around the sustainability problems it faces in different areas (climate change, waste management, energy, water, agriculture, fisheries, soils, biodiversity management, invasive species, etc.).
Finally, the chair aims to develop reports and indicators that support decision-making by all social stakeholders.
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The University of La Laguna – CajaCanarias – Ashotel Tourism Chair is a project promoted by the three entities to establish a structured tourism research group within the academic institution, directly linked to the business world. The chair's researchers are professors from the ULL itself, representing different areas currently working in tourism (Economics, Business, Anthropology, Geography, and, of course, the School of Business Sciences, where Tourism is taught at the ULL). Technicians from the two funding entities will also collaborate.
This chair complements and builds upon the current undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Tourism, as well as the doctorate in Tourism itself, launched by the ULL. Therefore, it has the human resources (researchers, interns, etc.) to participate in and support its activities.
Among its objectives is conducting tourism forecasting studies to analyze future trends and movements of various tour operators, something that is vital today due to the high volatility of operators.
The Chair, funded by Cajacanarias and ASHOTEL, will be dedicated to developing the research group's own activities. It may also obtain external funding through the organization of training activities, publicly or privately funded research projects, and the organization of seminars and publications related to its objectives.
CajaCanarias-Ashotel-University of La Laguna Tourism Chair
Canary Islands Chair of Pharmacy, Official College of Pharmacists of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, University of La Laguna
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It was established on December 27, 2017, within the generic and exclusive framework of Pharmacy Assistance within the scope of the Pharmacy Office. On February 9, 2022, the agreement was renewed, and the name was changed to the Canary Islands Chair of Pharmacy. Its mission is to create a collaborative working environment between the University and the pharmaceutical profession, fostering training, research, and development activities, as well as the dissemination and transfer of knowledge, in aspects related to medicines and the professional practice of pharmacists for the benefit and promotion of community health from the pharmacy office, and of technological support services for pharmaceutical services.
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Created on April 18, 2018, its purpose is to carry out activities related to teaching, research, technological innovation and the dissemination of the Chair's themes, the promotion, execution and direction of final degree/master's projects, the holding of seminars and conferences, the granting of scholarships and grants, the call for at least one award to the best Final Degree Project whose contents are related to the theme of the Chair and in accordance with the regulations that are developed at the time, as well as collaboration with other related chairs existing in other national or foreign Universities, being able to establish collaboration agreements with them.
Cepsa Foundation Chair of Ecological Transition and Innovation at the University of La Laguna
Interuniversity Chair of Commerce
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The Interuniversity Chair of Commerce is a collaborative effort between the Canary Islands' public universities and the Canary Islands Government to improve knowledge of the Canary Islands' commercial sector. The goal is to promote training, research studies on commercial activity and complementary services, and disseminate this activity as a source of value and socioeconomic development.
It aims to be a space for analysis, reflection, and debate involving businesses, professionals, public administrations, and academics. It is located at the two Canary Islands universities in a coordinated manner to provide a broad view of the reality it aims to serve and thus enrich the technical and scientific contributions.
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The Chair aims to promote training, research, and dissemination of labor relations and the Canarian business community. Its generic and exclusive framework will focus on business and labor relations within the Canarian business sector, and more specifically on new models of labor relations, collective bargaining, competitiveness and productivity, professional qualifications, work organization, economics and work, business and people management, and the Canarian labor market.
CEOE-Tenerife Chair of Business and Labor Relations at the University of La Laguna
Chair of Big Data, Open Data and Blockchain Cajasiete – University of La Laguna
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The Cajasiete-University of La Laguna Chair of Big Data, Open Data, and Blockchain will contribute to the digital transformation and the development of public-private business models in the Canary Islands through research, training, and dissemination of Big Data, Open Data, and Blockchain.
Furthermore, it will make the Canary Islands and the University of La Laguna a national benchmark in Big Data, Open Data, and Blockchain, being recognized by society for helping them improve their processes and decision-making.
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The Binter – University of La Laguna Institutional Chair in Cybersecurity aims to promote training, dissemination, and research studies on cybersecurity. The Chair's generic and exclusive focus is cybersecurity, and more specifically, research and advanced training for professionals prepared to work in the fields of Information and Communications Technology security.
Binter Cybersecurity Chair – University of La Laguna
Chair in Telemedicine, Robotics and Telesurgery, Canario Kishoo Foundation - University of La Laguna
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The Kishoo Canary Islands Foundation-University of La Laguna Chair in Telemedicine, Robotics, and Telesurgery aims to promote training, research, and dissemination of training in telemedicine, robotics, and telesurgery, as well as the healthcare and surgical training of current and future healthcare professionals in the Canary Islands.
The creation of this chair, the second in Spain in Telemedicine, Robotics, and Telesurgery, is the culmination of the University of La Laguna's recognition of the dedication and work of ULL professors and professionals from the University Hospital of the Canary Islands (HUC) in this field. Twelve years ago, the European project Cirumac was launched, based on the creation of the first smart operating room in the Spanish public healthcare system. Thanks to this project, the main hospitals in Macaronesia are now connected. Furthermore, the specialization of healthcare professionals from the Canary Islands, Madeira, and the Azores optimizes the performance of surgical teams and compensates for the current shortcomings that limit the modernization of healthcare provision to the resident and tourist populations of these territories.
Currently, the HUC has an integrated operating room that can record and transmit data to the University of La Laguna so that students don't have to enter the operating room and be sterilized, but can still follow the operations being performed there. Furthermore, in the field of robotics, there are simulators for all pathologies, allowing for as many operations as desired without any risk to patients.
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The University of La Laguna and Edosoft have developed this Chair with the aim of contributing to the development of training, research, and dissemination activities in areas related to Cloud Computing and Artificial Intelligence.
Both the universities and Edosoft are interested in carrying out joint projects and programs with the public and private sectors to promote and research new technologies, which could have a direct and indirect impact on the Canary Islands and beyond.
Edosoft Chair of Cloud Computing and Artificial Intelligence
Chair of Renewable Energy DISA-OW-University of La Laguna
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The DISA-OW-University of La Laguna Renewable Energy Chair aims to foster collaboration between DISA RENOVABLES, Ocean Winds OFFSHORE, and the University of La Laguna to promote training, research, development, and scientific dissemination in the field of renewable energy.
Chair of Life Cycles and Older People, Tenerife Island Council and University of La Laguna
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The Institutional Chair of Life Cycles and Older People It was created through an agreement between the Island Council of Tenerife and the University of La Laguna with the fundamental objective of addressing the needs of the elderly, understanding their problems and life situations, as well as helping them build a new cycle in their lives and promoting happiness and tenderness in care.
It has been established with an interdisciplinary team of Pedagogy, Psychology, Social Work, Nursing, Law, Cybersecurity, Occupational Therapy and Computer Literacy.
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The Institutional Chair of Childhood and Adolescence at the University of La Laguna, created at the end of 2023, aims to bring the world of childhood and adolescence closer to that of the University and vice versa. To this end, it will encourage academic participation in research, transfer, and student training activities, also involving professionals in the field when appropriate. At all times, the focus will be on protecting and guaranteeing the rights of children and adolescents.
Chair of Childhood and Adolescence at the University of La Laguna
Chair of the Gomero Whistle
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He Gomero Whistle It is a phonological system reduced to six powerful phonemes, suitable for communication over long distances in an island setting with rugged terrain and great difficulties for land communication. It constitutes one of the most unique manifestations of the traditional culture of the Canary Islands. Since 2009, it has been recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
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The University of La Laguna aims to promote training,
research, innovation, awareness and dissemination in the field of
hearing and visual impairments and deafblindness through this chair.
will implement various initiatives aimed at innovation and improvement of
professional practices, contributing to the development of knowledge
in a cultural, social and multidisciplinary approach.
Chair of Research and Innovation in Hearing Impairment and Accessibility
