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Winners of the III Blasco Garzón Awards Chosen

The ‘Sevilla FC Chair: University, Business, and Sports’ at Pablo de Olavide University (UPO) will mark a significant event on March 7th. This occasion will witness the presentation of the Blasco Garzón Awards, with the winners for the III edition already selected following the opening of the submission period on November 20th. Numerous submissions from various faculties have been received, and the jury’s decision can be accessed here.

Through its Innovation Center, Sevilla FC acknowledges the excellence of the best Bachelor’s and Master’s Final Projects presented by students enrolled at UPO, both in official degrees and continuing education. With this initiative, the club aims to promote study, initiation into research, and knowledge transfer in various fields of knowledge, fulfilling the primary objectives of its Innovation Center.

The award ceremony, scheduled for March 7th, will commence at 12:30 PM in the press room of Pablo de Olavide University.

The Manuel Blasco Garzón Award pays tribute to the memory of the former president of Sevilla FC, under whose tenure the entity achieved significant sporting successes and remarkable social and institutional advances. Additionally, he was instrumental in integrating a young man named to script the best pages in the club’s history: Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán. Blasco Garzón was a prominent figure in the social and cultural life of Seville, serving, among other positions, as president of the Ateneo de Sevilla and promoting projects aimed at enhancing cultural levels in neighborhoods and contributing to citizen education, thus aiding in the fight against illiteracy.

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Pablo de Olavide University recognizes Sevilla FC on its 25th anniversary.

Pablo de Olavide University is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and throughout the 2022/23 academic year, it has been commemorating its first quarter-century of existence with a special program of activities. A calendar of actions that culminated on Tuesday at its headquarters with a recognition event for entities that have initiated and developed various projects of academic, social, cultural, and research nature. Among these entities is Sevilla FC, the only club in Spain that holds an entire Academic Chair at a public university, precisely at Pablo de Olavide University, named ‘University, Business, and Sports.’ Specifically, Sevilla FC was recognized in the ‘Culture and Sports’ category. Through these awards, UPO aims to highlight the work of entities and companies that promote the professional development of students and, therefore, contribute to the economic and cultural progress of society based on the synergy between businesses and the university.

The event, held at the UPO’s Auditorium, in front of the José Ramón Cisneros Palacios Sports City, featured the presence of José Castro, president of Sevilla FC. “It is a true honor to receive this recognition. We always say that we must be more than a football club, using our potential to contribute to making a better society. For several years, we have been driving the establishment of the Sevilla FC Chair to promote innovation, knowledge, and employability from within the university, because not fewer than ten students from UPO have already joined our club. I don’t want to forget the Manuel Blasco Garzón award, through which we promote university excellence, the ‘Never Give Up’ runners-up, the 20 training scholarships granted, and our participation in the economic and social council,” said the highest authority of Sevilla FC.

Likewise, Juan Esteban Gómez from the R&D&I department was also present. A department that has recently been featured in the ‘Tesis’ program on Canal Sur Televisión, where the work of Sevilla’s Innovation Center was showcased. This platform is used to promote research, dissemination, training, employability, and entrepreneurship activities, including collaborations with universities and, especially, this Sevilla Chair at Pablo de Olavide University.

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The Sevilla FC Chair participates in the awards of the 15th UpoEmprende Contest.

On the morning of Friday, June 23, the XV UpoEmprende Contest event took place at Pablo de Olavide University, as usual, with the collaboration of the Sevilla FC Academic Chair through its Innovation Center. In a space that promotes an entrepreneurial spirit and supports business ideas generated from the university environment, awards were presented after the presentation of the 20 finalist projects, out of a total of 63 projects submitted and 214 participants.

As for the Honorable Mentions, courtesy of the Sevilla FC Academic Chair: University, Business, and Sports, in this edition of the UPOemprende Contest, two ‘Never Give Up’ awards have been granted, each with an economic prize of 400 euros. These Honorable Mentions have been awarded to the Impulsa project, a company responsible for creating virtual reality applications to enhance executive functions and improve the prefrontal lobe, and to 4EyesArenal, a digital platform for educational institutions that enables students, teachers, and administrative staff to efficiently record and resolve incidents in the school’s facilities and workshops.