UCAM Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia has signed a collaboration agreement with the Institute of Family Business and the Murcia Association of Family Business (AMEFMUR), for the launching of the International Chair of Family Business, whose work will be focused on three areas: teaching (both at Bachelor’s and at Post-graduate level), research and dissemination. The innovative nature with which it has been created, its international commitment - the first contacts with companies and universities of Latin America have already been established - and its cross-cutting character stand out, since the University will count on an advisory council for the Chair composed of family companies of different generations and representing different sectors of economy that will respond to the actual needs of family companies.  It must be noted that UCAM Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia, belonging to Fundación Universitaria San Antonio, which will celebrate its 25th anniversary at the end of this year, as a non-profit family business, is a member of AMEFMUR's board of directors.

The agreement has been signed by José Luis Mendoza, president of UCAM, Juan Corona, academic advisor of the Institute of Family Business, and José María Tortosa, president of AMEFMUR. Jaime Sánchez Vizcaíno, vice-dean of the Bachelor’s Degree in Law of UCAM and director of the new International Chair, who has considerable experience in advising the most relevant business companies of the Region of Murcia as legal adviser and non-board member secretary, being the author and redactor of more than thirty family business protocols, attended the event. Sánchez Vizcaíno highlights that family businesses represent 90% of the business fabric of Murcia and that they are the ones who resisted best to the economic crisis, “precisely because of their consistency. This Chair is going to stand out for its innovation and collaboration with the business world”. Likewise, Sánchez Vizcaíno highlighted the importance of the inclusion of new technologies as a tool to empower and help family business. 

Juan Corona explained that this initiative is included in the network of chairs envisaged by the Institute of Family Business, and that includes 40 chairs in Spain, “which makes it the biggest network of chairs of family business in the world”. José María Tortosa, president of AMEFMUR, also expressed his satisfaction that a family business such as UCAM has this type of chair.