An award for academic excellence
A few days ago, the students who took part in the Year 2022 Merit Awards Competition, promoted by the University of Cagliari in collaboration with the Sardinia section of the Italian Association of Chemical Engineering (AIDIC), were awarded their prizes at the Faculty of Engineering in Cagliari.
Sarlux and other local companies sponsored the initiative again this year, awarding a scholarship to the three best students – graduates of Cagliari’s three-year chemical engineering course – who will continue their specialisation at Cagliari University.
The coordinator of the Chemical Engineering Degree Course of the Department of Mechanical, Chemical and Materials Engineering thanked the sponsoring companies: Sarlux and Ecotec, for their support of the students’ education and training, and the Sardinian Section of AIDIC (Chemical Engineers’ Association) for promoting the initiative, which aims to strengthen the ties between the university, the association and industrial companies.
For more than twenty years now, the Saras Group has had a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Cagliari on initiatives for the cultural development of the industrial sector. For several years, the Group has also been collaborating with AIDIC, the Italian Association of Chemical Engineering, which actively supports the professional development of young chemical engineers and helps them find employment in Sardinia.
The Saras Group, founded by Angelo Moratti in 1962, is one of Europe’s leading players in the energy and oil refining industry. Through its parent company Saras SpA and subsidiaries Saras Trading SA, based in Geneva, and Saras Energia SAU, based in Madrid, the Group sells and distributes oil products in the domestic and international markets. The Group is also active in the electricity generation sector through its subsidiaries Sarlux Srl (IGCC plant) and Sardeolica Srl (wind farm). The Saras Group has about 1,576 employees and revenues of about EUR 15.8 billion as at 31 December 2022.