GBA UG

GBA UG

The Universidade de Vigo (UVIGO) is a young public academic institution officially founded in 1989 that has managed to consolidate itself in time as a reference of modernity and innovation in Galicia. It has three main objectives: to provide higher education services with high quality rates and oriented to foster work placements among its students, giving priority to internationalisation; to promote a basic and applied research through competitive research groups at an international level; and to transfer its knowledge and scientific advances to the society in order to promote an intelligent, sustainable and integrating growth in all its surrounding territory. The UVIGO is organised in three campuses, placed in three different cities: Vigo, Pontevedra and Ourense; all of them in the South of Galicia, Northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Our institution leads a Campus of International Excellence, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Education in 2010, a Campus of the Sea that gathers the teaching and researching efforts of seven public universities in Galicia and North of Portugal, as well as those of two national research organisms. It has also a Campus of the Water in the city of Ourense and the Campus CREA in the city of Pontevedra. In its three campuses at Ourense, Pontevedra and Vigo, our institution offers degree programs in the fields of engineering, science, humanities, technology and legal-social studies. These are distributed among nearly forty centres where research groups also carry out R&D activities. A network of own research centres completes the research infrastructure map. Thanks to its internationalisation strategies, the UVIGO offers a high number of student and staff exchanges, and receives and sends an important number of students, teachers and administrative staff with Erasmus+ and bilateral programmes with

third country institutions. Courses and research regarding the European Integration process are present at the UVIGO at all educative levels of the institution, thanks to the support over the years of the different government teams and its professors, with 26 Jean Monnet actions, including a Jean Monnet network, three Jean Monnet chairs, one Ad Personam Jean Monnet Chair and one Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, 16 Jean Monnet Modules and 3 Jean Monnet projects, whose aim is to train staff specialised in territorial cooperation, to contribute to the European construction through territorial cohesion and to spread the history of the European construction. The general objectives of the UVIGO concerning internationalisation are to promote the exchange of professors, researchers, students and administrative staff, and prepare them for the global labour market; to gain recognition in the international education market, establishing strategic partnerships, especially with Latin America countries; to internationalise the teaching and research, paying special attention to virtual and e-learning initiatives; to promote innovative international EU projects within a framework of multilateral and cross-border cooperation and to attract and retain the best. The UVIGO has participated in the last 25 years in more than 140 EU funded international education projects. Our institution has proven to have an outstanding experience in the strategic partnerships call with 40 proposals approved and in the Capacity Building call with 18 Erasmus+ CBHE projects, as well as in 9 Erasmus Mundus actions, in the Erasmus+ Sports call with 4 projects, in the Knowledge Alliances call with 2 projects, in 3 Creative Europe projects, in 1 Edulink proposal with Africa, in 1 KA3 Support for Policy Reform initiative and in 2 Europe for Citizens proposals.