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The DINA-ITC program aims at promoting cultural change within the scientific system by dynamizing its connections with innovation. It is designed as a large training program targeting a variety of strategic audiences with the purpose to to encourage engagement of academic and research community in processes of knowledge exchange and transfer (KET) with and towards various social actors.

DINA-ITC also supports the design of active strategies to encourage KET and to better manage their implementation in a variety of institutions and organizations.

The Program is funded by NextGenerationEU funds channeled through the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation. It is lead and run by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in collaboration with a team of academics and professionals and with the support of a number of institutions.

OBJECTIVES

  1. Train and encourage action (dynamize) from the different actors of the Spanish Innovation System to promote and facilitate the exchange, transfer and therefore valorization of knowledge.
  2. Analyze the existing interface structures and supporting instruments to the exchange and transfer of knowledge in the Spanish Innovation System in order to assess the current situation in terms of their organization, structure and management as well as the training needs of their personnel.

PROGRAM DIMENSIONS

TARGET AUDIENCE

  • Management staff of Universities and Public Research Organizations (PRO)

  • Technical and managerial staff supporting Knowledge Exchange and Transfer (KET) in universities and PROs, research institutes, technology institutes, science and technology parks and companies

  • Researchers and doctoral students at universities and PROs