This Tuesday, 17 October, Mr Agustín Conde Bajén, the Secretary of State for Defence, closed out the workshop to present the Horizons Network, organised by Isdefe under the theme “Collaboration in systems engineering innovation for defence and academia”. Taking part in the workshop as speakers were leading officials from the Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness, Ministry of Energy, Tourism and the Digital Agenda and presidents from prestigious Spanish universities.

Next Tuesday, 17 October, Isdefe is organising a workshop at its headquarters on innovation in the Administration, which will be closed by Mr Agustín Conde Bajén, Secretary of State for Defence. The workshop is intended for representatives of the administration, universities and organisations and institutions involved in innovation, and seeks to provide a gathering point to promote innovation in collaborative networks and models.

At the end of August the company signed a Partnership Agreement with the NGO CESAL, to promote the project “Defeating AIDS in Uganda. Helping female victims of HIV”, which will provide health care to women in two neighbourhoods surrounding Kampala (Uganda). 

On 4 and 5 October, over 100 companies and institutions from different sectors and activities are gathering at the Sabatini Building on the Leganés campus of the Universidad Carlos III to showcase their activity for future professionals.

Admission is free to all from 10 am to 6 pm. Isdefe is at stand number 72.

Isdefe’s Human Resources team will also be at the Conference Hall in the Foroempleo tent on Thursday, 5 October at 1:30 pm to take part in an exchange of ideas between companies and the UC3M.

On Thursday, 5 October, the Spanish Association of Military Writers (AEME) is organising the “Past, Present and Future of Spanish Military Engineering” workshop.

This event, which is sponsored by Isdefe, will be held in the held in the Aula Magna of the University of Zaragoza Law School.

The Official Association of Telecommunications Engineers (COIT) and the Spanish Association of Telecommunications Engineers (AEIT) organised the 56th FITCE (Federation of Telecommunications Engineers of the European Community) Congress, which is held annually in a different country, and which this year took place in Madrid.

The fourth edition of the “Youth Mediterranean Dialogue” was organised by the Spanish Youth Atlantic Council (COAJE), youth delegation of the Spanish Atlantic association, and featured the support of the NATO Youth Atlantic Treaty Association (YATA), in concert with Spain’s Ministry of Defence and Isdefe.

The gathering on “Satellites as a key element in security, defence and Public Administrations applications”, held in Santander from 6 to 8 September, was brought to a close by the Secretary of State for Defence, Mr Agustín Conde Bajén.

The seminar took stock of the importance of the sector, which was deemed to be essential to developing and activating the economy by allowing for the development of the industrial fabric and directly providing more than 4,300 high-quality jobs.

The 10th Seminar will be held on 6, 7 and 8 September under the theme “Satellites as a key component for security and defence in government applications”. This seminar is being organised by Ametic in concert with Hisdesat.

For the second time, Isdefe took part in the International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), which was held in the Australian city of Adelaide from 15 to 20 July.

The event is an annual gathering of experts in systems engineering, professionals in the field and members of academia, as well as of solutions providers and companies from different sectors, including Defence and Security.