{"id":15681,"date":"2017-07-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sapastaging.com\/angelo-affinita-award-a-european-competition-for-young-people-and-innovation-worth-22000-euros\/"},"modified":"2017-07-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T23:00:00","slug":"angelo-affinita-award-a-european-competition-for-young-people-and-innovation-worth-22000-euros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sapastaging.com\/it\/angelo-affinita-award-a-european-competition-for-young-people-and-innovation-worth-22000-euros\/","title":{"rendered":"Angelo Affinita Award: a European competition for young people and innovation worth 22,000 Euros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In times of economic and social crisis and of innovative ideas, there are those who choose to <\/span><b>invest heavily in young people, technological innovation and work.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SAPA with the Patronage of the Angelo Affinita Foundation advertises the <\/span><b>European Competition<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8220;<\/span><b><i>Angelo Affinita Award<\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8221; at its first edition<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>3 awards, for a total of 22,000 Euros<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, will be awarded to graduation theses, research fellowships or research projects for the <\/span><b>best graduates and doctoral students (or who are writing their theses) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of European universities wishing to give a deep change to their university and working life<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 3 awards will be distributed as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>1\u00b0 prize equal to \u20ac 10.000,00\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>2\u00b0 prize equal to \u20ac \u00a0 7.000,00<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>3\u00b0 prize equal to \u20ac \u00a0 5.000,00\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The competition notice begins on 3 April 2017 to end on 30 July 2017. After a period of evaluation of all the theses arrived and complying with the competition notice, the award ceremony in December of this year will take place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All young graduates and doctoral students (or who are currently writing their theses) of all the Italian and European Universities can participate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The prizes will be awarded to the authors of the most innovative Graduate thesis and PhD thesis applicable to topics related to the following areas:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Automotive Engineering,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Materials Engineering,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chemical engineering,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mechanical engineering,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Automation Engineering,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Industrial chemistry,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other technical disciplines related to the Automotive industry<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the graduate theses, the competition is reserved to new graduates who have completed a degree in disciplines related to the topics of the competition between 2015 and 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the PhD Thesis, the competition is open to those who have achieved the title between 2014 and 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>There will be a special Scientific Committee that will judge the best graduate thesis<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, consisting of three university professors and three expert technicians appointed by SAPA, as well as two independent experts appointed by the Angelo Affinita Foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The participation in the call takes place through a dedicated web page \u2013\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.premioangeloaffinita.it\/\"><b>www.premioangeloaffinita.it<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angeloaffinitaawards.com\/\"><b>www.angeloaffinitaawards.com<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u2013 where candidates can fill out a form with their own data, upload the abstract of their thesis and all the necessary documents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SAPA is always looking for young talents and collaborations with the professors of the best Italian and European universities. For this reason, in addition to the scholarship there is a unique opportunity for students who will participate in the call.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, <\/span><b>SAPA reserves the right to offer one or more participants a real \u00a0employment contract,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to actually develop and realize the research work in the company. It is a great incentive to give value and bet on the future of today&#8217;s and tomorrow&#8217;s young talents<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SAPA has chosen to promote this competition announcement because it strongly targets the technological innovation: only <\/span><b>during the last two years the number of patents filed have doubled.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this sense, the collaboration with Universities and university professors is essential, as evidenced by the words <\/span><b>of Roberto Pantani, professor of Transportation Phenomena at the University of Salerno<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and who collaborated with SAPA<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here are is words:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI met SAPA during a research project whose goal fell in my field of interest: injection molding of polymer materials. We have been focusing on improving the performance of the starting material and of the product, through the optimization of the injection molding process.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The interaction with the SAPA staff was immediately positive, thanks to the competence and availability shown by the employees of the company. Since then, collaboration has continued with the same level of understanding.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The expertise of staff (especially the number of employees with an engineering background) and the strong inclination to innovate makes the communication with SAPA particularly effective. In addition, the company has a strong inclination to innovate<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The collaboration with SAPA is definitely advisable for those who want to see the concrete application of the research in an industry that combines technological innovation with immediate competitiveness.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Training and commitment towards new generations have always been a cornerstone of SAPA and of the Angelo Affinita Foundation Onlus, as confirmed by <\/span><b>Giovanni Affinita&#8217;s words, associate and member of the Board of Directors of SAPA and of the \u00a0\u00a0Angelo Affinita Foundation<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis is the first edition of the Angelo Affinit\u00e0 Award, we hope it is the beginning of a long series. We want to start a continuous and constant collaboration with university professors from the best Italian and European universities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SAPA aims at doubling the number of patents by next year: having absolute university-level research and development partners is one of our pillars of continuous improvement. Focusing firmly on young people, on training and continuous growth is part of our DNA.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SAPA is a small industrial reality if compared with the giants who dominate the market of plastics for the automotive industry. A David who must fight against Goliath.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Patents represent our agility and ability to achieve great goals, by making the most out and developing the ideas of the brightest and most talented young people across Europe.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In times of economic and social crisis and of innovative ideas, there are those who choose to invest heavily in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sapastaging.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sapastaging.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sapastaging.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapastaging.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapastaging.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sapastaging.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapastaging.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sapastaging.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapastaging.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapastaging.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}