U-Match is an internship fair driven by the Las Rozas Town Hall through Las Rozas Next, the municipality’s entrepreneurship and innovation hub, and designed and developed by Cink Venturing, a consultancy specialising in entrepreneurship and innovation.
The event’s primary objective is to bring university students, vocational training students, and recent graduates closer to the labour market by facilitating their access to curricular and extracurricular internships in large companies and startups within the local and regional ecosystem.
With a dynamic and participatory format, U-Match creates a unique meeting point where companies access young, diverse talent, and students find opportunities to start their professional journey in sectors linked to innovation and the digital economy.
Las Rozas Next identified a strategic need: to create effective bridges between education and business, addressing the challenge of youth employment while also responding to companies’ need to attract and incorporate qualified talent in high-demand areas.
U-Match was born as a response to this challenge, integrating into the broader strategy of the Hub to position Las Rozas as a benchmark for innovation, digital entrepreneurship, and the generation of professional opportunities in the Madrid-West area.
The design of U-Match combines the logic of a professional fair with interactive dynamics between students and companies. It is structured in several phases:
Communication campaigns targeting universities, vocational training centres, and organisations related to youth employability. Open registration for students and recent graduates interested in professional internships.
Inviting large companies, startups, and entities from the Las Rozas entrepreneurial ecosystem and surrounding areas.
Selection of internship profiles aligned with current market demands: engineering, backend and frontend programming, graphic and 3D design, communication, marketing, customer service, financial consultancy, legal, among others.
Stand spaces for over 40 participating companies.
Presentation of the U-Challenge competition, which broadens opportunities for students with an innovative vocation.
Direct meetings between students and company representatives.
Networking dynamics and informative sessions about the services of Las Rozas Next.
Interventions by institutional representatives from Las Rozas Town Hall and the Community of Madrid.
INNOVATION
After two editions, U-Match has become a benchmark event for connecting young talent with companies within the Las Rozas ecosystem
Key achievements include:
U-Match is thus integrated into the suite of programmes at Las Rozas Next aimed at driving innovation, entrepreneurship, and talent development, creating a real impact on youth employability and the competitiveness of the business ecosystem.
