Corporación MP chair: international cooperation project.
AECI (the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation) has granted MP’s teaching team at the Universidad de Sevilla (Seville University) a subsidy for developing an international cooperation project with the Ciego de Ávila University in Cuba, of which the foundation will be an active participant.

The province of Ciego de Ávila is located in the centre of the island of Cuba. Over the last few years it has experienced dramatic development based on tourism, especially in the Northem Keys Area, where many hotels have been built. This sudden boost in development has also sparked the economic development of the province, including the infrastructures, communications, construction and all production sectors in general. As a result of this development, the management needs of institutions have grown exponentially. The Ciego de Ávila University is the main academic and research centre in the area. It works in close cooperation with Cuban companies and institutions to promote the development and continuous improvement of the province, and also works with foreign institutions in collaboration projects supporting this development.

Subsidy for developing a collaboration project with the Ciego de Ávila University in Cuba granted to the Corporación MP chair at University of Seville.


  The project to be subsidised is a collaboration project between Seville University, Ciego de Ávila University and the foundation, and will consist in developing a teaching model for the implementation of the Business Management System IMI, which will assist the development of communities in the area. This project is based on the already extensive history of collaboration between University of Seville and the foundation. The project shall be divided into two stages. The first shall be to introduce the Business Management System IMI to the teaching team of Ciego de Ávila University by sending them the book entitled “El Sistema de Control Económico en la Ingeniería del Marco Institucional” (The System of Economic Control in the Engineering of the Institutional Framework), and also through the course and on-line tutoring on the system. With this acquired knowledge and their own knowledge of the region, the project team will then develop the optimal model for implementing the system in local institutions. In the second phase, the teachers of Ciego de Ávila University shall visit University of Seville. The aim of this visit shall be twofold: to hold meetings with the Seville project team and to visit different companies within the MP Group which will serve as examples of the business management model once it has already been implemented.