UDIT collaborates with the Madrid Industry Plan 2025-2027

Madrid City Council has presented the Industry Plan for the City of Madrid 2025-2027, an initiative endowed with 196 million euros that reinforces the role of the industrial sector as an engine of economic growth, territorial cohesion and technological transformation. This ambitious project, the result of consensus between social, business, institutional and academic agents, has counted with the participation of Javier Sanz, Director of the Department ofProduct-UX Designat UDIT, University of Design, Innovation and Technology, as advisor to the Department of Economy, Employment and Innovation of the Madrid City Council, and with the presence of Juan Cayón, Rector of UDIT in the institutional act.

Presented by Mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida at the Palacio de Cibeles, the plan was signed together with CEIM, the trade unions CC.OO. and UGT, the Chamber of Commerce, representatives of industrial companies, universities and experts from the city's innovation ecosystem. Its objective? To consolidate Madrid as a benchmark in sustainable and technologically advanced production models, generating stable and quality employment. 

To achieve this, the document establishes six lines of action and 44 specific measures, aimed at promoting new strategic industrial hubs, improving production infrastructures, strengthening public-private collaboration and facilitating the transformation of Madrid's industrial SMEs. Its most relevant initiatives include the creation of an Industry Observatory, a specialised technical office, incentives for sustainable mobility and the implementation of high-impact industrial sectors such as semiconductors, aerospace, green hydrogen and audiovisuals. 

In the mayor's own words, this plan is born with "an integrating perspective and a vocation for transversality", and is based on Madrid's industrial strength, which currently employs more than 84,000 people and represents 6.8% of the city's economic activity. 

Javier Sanz said he was "proud that UDIT has been able to collaborate in such a strategic project for Madrid. Design, when understood as a tool for innovation, has a lot to contribute to industrial development and to the well-being of the city".