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The aim of the project is to develop the exports of services of engineering

Siemens and the Government of Portugal promote the ‘Engineering made in Portugal'

Editorial Interempresas14/01/2013

The past 11 January the Minister of Education and Sciences and the Minister of Economy of Portugal, Siemens S.A., Cadflow and Siemens Industry Software Limited signed an agreement of intentions with the aim to improve the quality and the development of the national engineering and the Portuguese engineers and can like this answer, for example, to the European demand of services of engineering qualified. The project, that could rise to 400 million euros, includes the free distribution of licences of software and hardware of automation to universities and centres of professional learning, as well as learning for professors in the use of programs and equipment.

The project covers the system educacional complete, from primary, secondary, dual education, until upper school, technical and professional learning and has a big number of initiatives between which find programs of practices in Germany.

Instantaneous of the signature of the agreement.

In the last years has ascertained a reduction of the number of qualified professionals in Europe, being the engineering one of the most affected areas, hitting of form very significant on the businesses and the economy. In Germany exist 72.000 places of vacant engineering and the most recent data aim the need of 200.000 engineers until 2020. Thus, it results vital to do all the possible efforts to attract more students to this area of study. The project ‘Engineering made in Portugal' will implement thanks to the agreement signed today by the Minister of Education, Nuno Crato, and the Minister of Economy and Employment, Álvaro Pereira two Saints, and has like aim promote the study of Engineering in Portugal, and with this encourage to the students of primary and secondary to cursar upper studies in this matter, and provide practical learning to which already are studying engineering to end to guarantee a better integration in the labour market, being able to like this offer services of engineering to markets like the one of the north of Europe.

Siemens pretends to help to the country to face up to the shortage of engineers in the world and thinks that to invest in the Portuguese engineering is vital to advance in the country, by which the investment in the vocational learning of the human resources is key sectors of the economy, results essential for his development. This worry by the learning of qualified professionals in areas with high levels of empleabilidad in Portugal and in other European countries also pretends to work like crowbar in the process of reindustrialización of the country.

Siemens S.A. has to ensure the distribution of the equipment, that is to say the kit of learning Simatic, to the schools that offer courses related

The project includes the free distribution of software and hardware of automation, as well as learning for professors in the use of programs and equipment. The project has a big number of initiatives to different levels of education, some of which already are under way. The Minister of Education and Science has to ensure the dissemination of the project to all the educational levels (elementary, secondary, technical, professional and upper learning) by means of initiatives of communication that consider appropriate. The Minister of Education and Science also will have to cooperate with the others parts, offering the notable information and the necessary contacts for the implementation and development of the included initiatives in the project.

Siemens S.A. has to ensure the distribution of the equipment, that is to say the kit of learning Simatic, to the schools that offer courses related, as for example Industrial and Robotic Automation, and give learning to the professors in the same. Also it has to look after ensure the programs of practices in the field of ‘Competition of Engineering'. Through Cadflow, Siemens PLM has to ensure the delivery of the software Solid Edge, the corresponding technical support and the learning in his use to the professors.

According to Carlos Melo Ribeiro, CEO of Siemens Portugal, the signature of this agreement supposes a sample more than the support that offers the company to the promotion of the sustainable growth of the country: “we Think that the investment in the Portuguese engineering is vital to advance in the country. The signature of this memorandum underlines the commitment of Siemens with the need to improve the qualification of the national human resources and therefore his possibilities of employment, contributing of significant way to improve the quality, the productivity and the competitiveness of the Portuguese business fabric”.

“With this announcement, are helping to create a new generation of Portuguese students that will graduate with the skills, the experience and the necessary confidence to take out immediately the best provecho to the most advanced engineering of the industry and the technology of design, the software Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology", ensures Mike Brown, director of Academic Relations of Siemens PLM. "Through this commitment on a long-term basis with the education are making possible the development of the individuals that will invent and will produce the necessary innovative products to face up to the needs and future challenges of Portugal”.

Mike Brown, director of Academic Relations of Siemens PLM: “we are helping to create a new generation of Portuguese students that will graduate with the skills, the experience and the necessary confidence to take out the best provecho to the most advanced engineering”