The purpose of the industry-university chairs at UPM is to establish strategic and long-lasting partnerships between the University and companies or institutions, to carry out training, research and innovation or to promote knowledge transfer.

For the company or institution, the partnership university-business offers a direct access to the universities human resources and supporting infrastructures (scholarship programs for thesis project, exploratory works or technological monitoring as well as being promoted at conferences).

For the university, the partnership represents continuity of opportunities for professors, students and researchers. Depending on the institution or company the opportunities reach from research funding, to training tools for students and researchers, the exchange of staff, up to the commercial exploitation of the research results.

The Polytechnic University of Madrid shows with this partnership its committed to public-private partnership as well as to innovation, growth and progress in the country.