Combining technical and business studies at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid: Analysis of the Double Degree student profile

Irene Blanco-Gutierrez; Paloma Esteve, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Double Degrees play an important role in the current landscape of higher education. 1. UPM Double Degrees combining technical and business disciplines are still at an early stage. 2. Academic conten...

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Incorporation of the Intangibles into the Spanish Start-Ups by Activity Sector and Region. Improving Their Economic Sustainability

María Dolores García-Gallo; Félix Jiménez-Naharro; Miguel Torres-García; Susan L. Giesecke; José Guadix-Martín, University of Seville; UC Berkeley

Nowadays, start-ups, assuming increasing importance, have the possibility to include intangible knowledge as another resource on which they can carry out planning exercises, impact studies, evaluation...

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Promoting Employability in Higher Education: A Case Study on Boosting Entrepreneurship Skills

Cristina Pardo-Garcia; Maja Barac, Universitat de València

How can higher education increase the employability of university students? We present a case study on an innovative training itinerary aimed to promote the participation of teaching staff to stimulat...

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Towards Sustainability in University Education. Improving University Graduates Chances of Employability by Participation in a High Achievement Academic Program

Ismael Moya Clemente; Gabriela Ribes Giner; Gisela Sanahuja Vélez, Universitat Politècnica de València

This piece of research focusses on the sustainable development goal (SDG) number four of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: quality education. The main objective of this research was to dete...

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Employability Appraisal Scale (EAS): Development and Validation in a Spanish Sample

Lucía I. Llinares-Insa; Pilar González-Navarro; Juan J. Zacarés-González; Ana I. Córdoba-Iñesta, University of Valencia

Employability is an important issue in the labor context. Currently, the European Union presents employability as the path to full employment and active citizenship, and a strategy to reduce unemploym...

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Opening the Black-Box in Lifelong E-Learning for Employability: A Framework for a Socio-Technical E-Learning Employability System of Measurement (STELEM)

Juan-Francisco Martínez-Cerdá; Joan Torrent-Sellens; Inés González-González; Pilar Ficapal-Cusí, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya; Universidad Internacional de La Rioja

Human beings must develop many skills to cope with the large amount of challenges that currently exist in the world: media empowerment for an active and democratic citizenship, knowledge acquisition a...

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