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IAESTE PRESENCE IN SPAIN
ANDALUCIA - CATALUNYA - NON-OFFICIAL CENTRES - EUSKADI - MADRID - VALENCIA
The Spanish Committee for the Exchange of Students for
Technical Experience operates in 56 Spanish universities known as
Centres. The Centres are in charge of establishing direct contact with
the students and processing the internships. You can find the list of
Centres in the Directory.
Delegations are above the Centres. These offices take on
administrative tasks and act as intermediaries between the Centres and
the General Secretary or other institutions. They also offer continued
support services to the companies participating in the programme and
watch over the quality standards of the internships, either as a
regular representative of the Permanent Commission of IAESTE
España or as a referee when any conflicts between Centres arise.
The General Secretray is the ultimate head of the programme and is the only international representative of IAESTE.TR
Please find below a list of all the different Delegations
which are part of the Permanent Commission of IAESTE España,
with a description of their functions. Those Centres which are not
suitable to become a Delegation, because of their low level of
activity, are known as Non-Official Centres.
ANDALUCIA - CATALUNYA - NON-OFFICIAL CENTRES - EUSKADI - MADRID - VALENCIA
ANDALUCIA:
In 1993, a few students of Industrial Engineering from Málaga,
who knew of the existence of the IAESTE programme in other places in
Spain, decided to create a local committee in their school. Their aim
was the same as IAESTE’s: to promote a more complete education,
open to all students.
Nowadays, IAESTE offers a very valuable service to the students in the
universities of Granada, Málaga and Sevilla. Those universities,
in turn, acknowledge and support our initiatives and our activities.
One important landmark in the history of IAESTE in Andalucía
happened when IAESTE Industriales de Málaga became a Delegation
with the support of all the IAESTE committees of the area.
m: iaeste@uma.es – w: www.iaeste.uma.es
CATALUNYA:
It became a Delegation in 1981, and it was the first office to
establish itself according to a de-centralized organizational model.
The head office of IAESTE Catalunya is in the Campus Nord of the
Polytechnic University of Barcelona (UPC), a university specialized in
technical degrees. Currently, many faculties and schools belonging to
the University of Girona, Ramon Llull University, Pompeu Fabra
University and the University of Barcelona are members of IAESTE.
(Note that some of these universities offer the possibility to get
credits from the internships done with IAESTE)
15 centres form part of this Delegation, generating an average of 100
exchanges per year. The activity of IAESTE takes place mainly in the
areas of Barcelona, Mataró and Girona.
IAESTE Catalunya holds a collaboration agreement with the Government
(Generalitat) of Catalunya, through the Secretaria General de Joventut,
and is also supported by the Departament d’Universitats, Recerca
i Societat de la Informació.
www.iaeste.cat - info@iaeste.cat
NON-OFFICIAL CENTRES:
All the Centres which are in regions where there are not enough
faculties members of IAESTE or those which do not show the appropriate
amount of activity, and therefore cannot become Delegations, are
Non-official Centres.
IAESTE Zaragoza currently represents the committees of IAESTE in Elche, Alicante, Oviedo, Burgos.
m: iaeste@unizar.es - w : www.cps.unizar.es/iaeste
Download contact info of NON-OFFICIAL CENTRES. (.pdf)
EUSKADI:
The delegation of IAESTE Euskadi, which currently represents the
Industrial and Telecommunication Engineering centres of Bilbao, has
been working regularly since the foundation of the association in
Spain, around 1951, and it has become more and more important thanks to
the work and commitment of its members, the support of ETSI (Escuela
Técnica Superior de Ingenieros) and the collaboration of the
Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros Industriales of Bilbao. More than 600
students have completed their education, not only as far as theoretical
and practical aspects are concerned, but also by learning new languages
and getting in touch with other cultures. The IAESTE programme is
supplying the Basque job market with competent professionals, in a time
characterized by the opening of borders and the Spanish full
integration in Europe.
m: iaeste@iaeste.bi.ehu.es – w: http://iaeste.bi.ehu.es
MADRID:
IAESTE began its work in Madrid in the early 1950s and the activity of
the association has not stopped ever since. Nowadays, it is mostly
students of Telecommunication Engineering and Aeronautics who
participate in the programme, yet other specialties such as
Architecture, Industry and Civil Engineering are beginning to benefit
from our internships. The Delegation is in the Escuela Superior de
Ingeniería de Telecomunicaciones de Madrid, which took over
after the Escuela de Ingenieros Aeronáuticos. Due to its
geographical location, IAESTE Madrid plays a major role in the dealings
between IAESTE and INJUVE (Instituto de la Juventud).
m: becas@iaeste.etsit.upm.es - w: www.iaeste.etsit.upm.es
VALENCIA:
The Delegation of Valencia, established as a federation of associations
in 1986, has its central office at the Valencia Polytechnic University.
14 centres form the association and it is one of the biggest
Delegations in Spain, not only in terms of internships achieved (around
120 per year) but also in terms of student membership. It works mostly
–yet not exclusively- in the city of Valencia and its
surroundings.
IAESTE Valencia receives the support of the Valencia Polytechnical
University (UPV), though the Vicerrectorado de Alumnado e Intercambio
Académico. Moreover, students can get credits from the
internships they do in most of the schools.
m: iaeste@upvnet.upv.es – w: www.iaestevalencia.tk