{"id":4872,"date":"2026-01-13T21:37:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/incasi?p=4872"},"modified":"2026-01-14T21:23:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:23:47","slug":"the-prodetur-chair-begins-its-activities-analysing-and-studying-university-employability-in-seville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/incasi\/en?p=4872","title":{"rendered":"The Prodetur Chair begins its activities analysing and studying university employability in Seville"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">October 7, 2025 | Pablo de Olavide University (Seville, Spain)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"attachment_30888268\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upo.es\/diario\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/07102025-Dialogos-Ed-Superior-Empleo-0190-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.upo.es\/diario\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/07102025-Dialogos-Ed-Superior-Empleo-0190-750x422.jpg\" alt=\"Rafael Merinero, Laura L\u00f3pez y M. \u00c1ngels Huete en la presentaci\u00f3n de las Jornadas\" class=\"wp-image-30888268\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rafael Merinero, Laura L\u00f3pez and M. \u00c1ngeles Huete at the presentation of the Conference.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8216;<strong>Dialogues: Higher Education and Employment<\/strong>&#8216; sessions have commenced this morning with the public activities of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upo.es\/diario\/institucional\/2025\/02\/diputacion-upo-impulsaran-agenda-urbana-area-metropolitana-sevilla\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Prodetur Chair in Socioeconomic Development of the Province of Seville<\/a>. <strong>Mar\u00eda \u00c1ngeles Huete <\/strong>and <strong>Rafael Merinero<\/strong>, co-directors of the Chair, together with <strong>Laura L\u00f3pez de la Cruz<\/strong>, Vice-Rector for Institutional Relations, Continuing Education, and Foundations, have presented a programme focused on the methodology required for monitoring the employability of university students and on strategies to enhance it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00abGenerating knowledge and actions that enable greater employability for students is one of the objectives of the Prodetur Chair\u00bb, stated Mar\u00eda \u00c1ngeles Huete, who recalled that a significant proportion of students at the Olavide come from the metropolitan area and the province of Seville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For her part, Laura L\u00f3pez de la Cruz highlighted the role of public and private entities \u00abin developing projects from the University that translate into tangible actions improving society\u00bb, in reference to their key contribution through chairs and continuing education via university microcredentials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>\u2018Dialogues: Higher Education and Employment\u2019 programme<\/strong>&nbsp;has commenced with a roundtable dedicated to the&nbsp;<strong>EUROGRADUATE project<\/strong>\u2014in whose forthcoming 2026 edition Spain will participate\u2014and to the methodologies employed, combining registries and surveys at both European and territorial levels as well as on campuses, in the analysis of university employability.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upo.es\/diario\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/07102025-Dialogos-Ed-Superior-Empleo-0207-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.upo.es\/diario\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/07102025-Dialogos-Ed-Superior-Empleo-0207-420x236.jpg\" alt=\"Mesa redonda EUROGRADUATE\" class=\"wp-image-30888269\" style=\"width:566px;height:auto\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00abTraining is never superfluous; it is increasingly necessary, so we should not speak of overqualification\u00bb, stated <strong>Amapola Povedano<\/strong>,&nbsp;Director General of Employability and Entrepreneurship at the UPO.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Amapola herself recalled that young people who graduate from university have \u00abgreater and better employability\u00bb. Povedano D\u00edaz introduced the participants in the roundtable:&nbsp;<strong>Sandra Fachelli<\/strong>, academic director of the Olavide Employment Observatory;&nbsp;<strong>Juan Antonio Hern\u00e1ndez<\/strong>, from the Andalusian Institute of Statistics and Cartography; and&nbsp;<strong>Beatriz Dacosta<\/strong>, from the National Statistics Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sandra Fachelli described the work carried out at the Employment Observatory to adapt the EUROGRADUATE survey to the UPO, both in the translation of concepts and in cultural adaptation; this survey will be coordinated in 2026 by the&nbsp;<strong>European Higher Education Sector Observatory (EHESO)<\/strong>. She thus revealed that the pilot project for Olavide has introduced innovations regarding social origin and the gender perspective. Fachelli called for collaboration between institutions across different territorial scopes, as \u00abthe expansion of samples from national and international surveys holds tremendous potential for studying employability in universities\u00bb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sessions continue this afternoon with the roundtable&nbsp;<strong>\u2018Labour Market Insertion: Employers and the Importance of University Internships\u2019<\/strong>. The Prodetur Chair is funded by the&nbsp;<strong>Diputaci\u00f3n de Sevilla<\/strong>, and the sessions are supported by the European project&nbsp;<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/incasi\/en\">INCASI<\/a><\/strong>, International Network for Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upo.es\/diario\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/07102025-Dialogos-Ed-Superior-Empleo-0187-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.upo.es\/diario\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/07102025-Dialogos-Ed-Superior-Empleo-0187-750x422.jpg\" alt=\"Cartel de las Jornadas Di\u00e1logos: Educaci\u00f3n Superior y Empleo\" class=\"wp-image-30888270\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: Office for the Transfer of Research Results,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upo.es\/diario\/docencia-formacion\/2025\/10\/la-catedra-prodetur-inicia-sus-actividades-de-analisis-y-estudio-de-la-empleabilidad-universitaria-en-sevilla\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Diario Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Outreach<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 7, 2025 | Pablo de Olavide University (Seville, Spain) The &#8216;Dialogues: Higher Education and Employment&#8216; sessions have commenced this morning with the public activities of the&nbsp;Prodetur Chair in Socioeconomic Development of the Province of Seville. Mar\u00eda \u00c1ngeles Huete and Rafael Merinero, co-directors of the Chair, together with Laura L\u00f3pez de la Cruz, Vice-Rector for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2938,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/incasi\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/incasi\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/incasi\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/incasi\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2938"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/incasi\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/incasi\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4988,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/incasi\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4872\/revisions\/4988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/incasi\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/incasi\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/incasi\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}