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Main activities
The main activities of the Aujac it is they centered in three main axes: formation, broadcast and collaboration
projects.
Formation
In the program of formation it is intended to:
Facilitate the technology access to all the persons concerned to the Java technologies. Establish a shared plan of
formation in all the Catalan area, which they are governed by the same criterion of evaluation and formation, with a
unitary program of courses.
The plan had a remarkable success, and the Barceloba Football club, "Fundación Once" and the University
Autonòma of Barcelona (UAB) was one of their customers.
The plan of formation also allowed the creation of a Java Master Course at the "Fundació Indústries de la
Informació", entity promoted by Mr. Antoni Farrés ca:Antoni Farrés i Sabater.
Otherwise, it is also they imparted several courses in the EUIS, Escola Universitària d'Informàtica de Sabadell,
ascribed to the UAB.
Diffuse
With respect to the diffusion of the Java technology, Aujac organized the "Sun Tech Day" in Sabadell 2004, and
three editions of the "Jornades Java Catalanes", and became the first non-enterprise group to organize an event of
this kind in Spain, copied afterwards by JavaHispano, which made two editions of a similar event, after having
attended the first as a viewer.
As explained in the definition of the "Jornades Java Catalanes" these were:
The "Jornades Java Catalanes" are an event focused to diffuse the Java technology and other similar
technologies to the Catalan community. It is an event open to everybody, focused to several sectors of the
catalan community: university, enterprise, final users and general public.
The goal of the "Jornades Java Catalanes" is to visit all Catalan universities along the several editions,
located in Catalonia, Valencia, Balearic Islands and the North Catalonia, through the hand of technological
companies in this area.
An annual periodicity is established in the event.
The language of expression and work of "Jornades Java Catalanes" is, by default, the Catalan. Excluding in
those activities in which they have to be made, by non-catalan resident of the persons who develop them, in the
languages of expression of the same ones.
The area of performance and divulging of the "Java conference C0atalanes" they are all those regions of
Catalan speech.
The "Jornades Java Catalanes" base their diffusion area on three predominant areas: enterprise, university
and society.
Aujac was pioneer in the Spanish state, the year 2003, in being the first non-profit organization that achieved to
gather in a same event about Java, the university world, the enterprise sector and the general society, acting as link of
union among them.
This joint position of initiative and leadership between Aujac and all the Catalan universities, makes the present
model have been adopted by other similar entities all over the Spanish state when carrying out similar events
certifying the success of the same ones.