The delegate of the Cádiz Free Trade Zone has visited different technological and scientific spaces, such as the Technological Laboratory of Uruguay and Ceibal, an innovation center for the integration of technology in education
During the days prior to the free zone meeting, the Cadiz delegation has maintained contact with companies and logistics operators
The delegation of the Cádiz Free Zone that participates from tomorrow until Friday in the XXVIII Conference of Free Zones of Ibero-America in the Uruguayan town of Punta del Este has taken advantage of its stay in the Latin American country to see first-hand different innovative and technological spaces in the capital, Montevideo, and establish contacts with companies and logistics operators prior to their intervention at the conference and give visibility to the projects of the Cádiz Consortium.
Fran González and his team visited different technological spaces yesterday afternoon and today morning, one of them was the Technological Laboratory of Uruguay (LATU), a scientific and technological park that is the largest technological and entrepreneurial ecosystem in Uruguay and has established itself as a meeting point for national and international companies, educational institutions, research centers and entrepreneurs and is closely linked to the country's educational system, as is the Uruguay Innova Science Space, a program of the Uruguayan Government that the Cadiz delegation has also seen.
One of the main stops of the Cádiz manager and his team has been Ceibal, an educational innovation center with digital technologies that emerged from the Ceibal Plan, which promotes the integration of digital technologies in education. Their head of Internationalization, Mariana Montaldo, explained to them how they work in order to improve learning and promote processes of innovation, inclusion and personal growth.
Montaldo explained that Ceibal seeks to promote the integration of technology into education to improve learning and promote processes of innovation, inclusion and personal growth; promote innovative and inclusive education so that each student develops their potential and builds capabilities for global citizenship.
The group of which the Cádiz trade mission was a part was composed, in addition to the delegate Fran González, the commercial director of the Consortium and the coordinator of Incubazul, by the delegate of the Gran Canaria Free Trade Zone, Gabriel Corujo; the delegate of the Tenerife Free Trade Zone, Manuel Martínez; representatives of the management team of the Vigo Free Trade Zone; and those responsible for the Colombian free zones of Tayrona, Santander and Pacífico; in addition to Juan Opertti, executive director of the Chamber of Free Zones of Uruguay.
The agenda prior to the Punta del Este conference carried out yesterday and today by those responsible for the Cádiz Free Zone is part of the Cádiz Consortium's business internationalization strategy that helps firms interested in knowledge, deepening and exploring relationships with other countries and other free zones, in a way that connects points to promote the growth and expansion of those interested, providing them with information and promoting contacts.
In this case, the facilities that Fran González has known in Montevideo have technology and innovation as their greatest exponent, very linked and therefore valuable for the innovative and Blue Economy ecosystem that is configuring the Free Trade Zone of Cádiz framed in its new industry 4.0 model, in addition to as a model and example for the activity of the startups that participate in the Incubazul acceleration program or the actions that Blue Core is developing, the project that complements and gives continuity to the incubator.
Fran González has also established contacts with companies and logistics operators, visiting the facilities of Costa Logística, one of the main firms installed in Zonamérica, the leading free zone in Uruguay.
In this sense, Fran González has pointed out that "it is a very complete agenda since we are interested in making the most of this type of trips. We have an official agenda within the meeting of free zones but it is also important to take advantage of the opportunity to visit, like today, other free zones and technological spaces in the environment where we can learn from the companies located and the portfolio of services. The connection that allows us to think about joint projects and be able to accompany the Spanish business community that wants to establish itself in the area is very important."