Fundacion Centro Tecnoloxico de Telecomunicacions de Galicia (Gradiant)

Gradiant
The Galician Research and Development Centre in Advanced Telecommunication was founded in December 2007 by eleven companies of the ICT Galician sector (Arantia, Arteixo Telecom, Egatel, Gsertel, Indra, Ineo, R, Telefónica, Televés, Tredess y Tele2 Comunitel), the Consellería de Industria da Xunta de Galicia (Regional Industry Ministry of Galicia Regional Government) and the three Galician universities (A Coruña, Santiago and Vigo). 51% of GRADIANT foundational capital is private, taking the legal formula of “nonprofit private foundation”.
At present, GRADIANT is provisionally located at the installations of the Higher Technical School Of Telecommunication Engineering of Vigo, awaiting the completion of the first stage of the Citexvi (Vigo Technological City). Citexvi will be on Vigo campus too, and it will be inuse by the third quarter of 2009.
GRADIANT was born from the expertise of two leader research and transfer groups from the Higher Technical School Of Telecommunication Engineering of Vigo, from the Department of Signal Theory and Communications and the Department of Telematic Engineering as well. Both research groups have received the consolidatedhallmark from the Galicia regional government (Xunta de Galicia), being the only Galician ones who have received it within the Telecommunications sector. This fact is proof of the expertise of the GRADIANT promoter groups.