The Planning and Sustainable Management of Local Rural Development Research Group (GESPLAN for its acronym in Spanish) from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid is currently holding a course on Competencies of Educational Innovation Projects for UPS professsors and research groups. The aim of the course is to give professors a general overview of project management which is fundamental for scientific studies.

It is a course in distance mode, 70% is online through UPM's moodle platform and 30% is on site and participants must attend on the 5th and 6th of September.

92 professors and researchers from Cuenca, Guayaquil and Quito are taking part of this course which is led by Dr. Ignacio de los Rios and Ramon Zamorano, researchers and professors at UPM.

The topics being presented are: "The technical dimension of management of educational innovation projects" and "Monitoring of competency elements: the technical dimension of project management (II)"

The course will allow participants to develop skills and knowledge they need to develop and work on several educational projects that will benefit UPS students and the entire Ecuadorian society.