The Polytechnic University of Madrid has awarded GMV the 2021 Award for Research and Innovation Collaboration with UPM. These awards are organized by the university annually to showcase those whose work has made a significant contribution to the University’s research, innovation, and knowledge transfer activities, where recipients include both public and private companies, as well as teachers and individual researchers. In this edition, thirteen awards were given in four categories.

The awards were presented on January 28, during the solemn academic ceremony held on the occasion of the celebration of St. Thomas Aquinas in the auditorium of the UPM in Madrid, in a ceremony presided over by the UPM Rector Magnificus Guillermo Cisneros. Ignacio Ramos Gorostiola, GMV's corporate director of People Strategy & Infrastructures, accepted this award on behalf of the company.

GMV arose from the university's school of aeronautical engineering. The cornerstones of technology, innovation, and excellence on which Professor Martínez García founded the company have been sustained throughout all these years and have made the company a leader on an international scale. Throughout the company’s more than 35 years of history, it has maintained a close relationship with the UPM. As GMV's business grew, these connections have diversified, thus opening up new avenues of research and innovation with UPM.

This university-company partnership has grown both in the field of innovation and joint research programs, as well as in the training of students through internships in the company and the engagement of company staff in teaching, and the development of educational programs.

This award is therefore recognition of GMV's firm commitment to continue the strong relationship forged with UPM, which is geared to our aim of innovating for progress.

The awards are also part of the university's own R&D+i Program, which aims to promote research, development, and innovation through various strategic lines of action such as these awards, plans for attracting and retaining talent, and support for international work and mobility, among others.