UPV/EHU

The University of the Basque Country is a vibrant 30-year-old institution with 30 Faculties and University Schools, 50,000 students, 5,000 world-class academic staff and state-of-the-art facilities, located at the campuses of Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa. UPV/EHU is a modern and active University, in constant change, which has developed to become one of the most important universities in Spain, in terms of: the degrees it offers (supply); its students (demand); and its quality (process). Our surveyed graduates appraise, among the competences acquired while attending our institution: the improvement of their teamwork and leadership skills, the reinforcement of their decision-making and problem-solving ability and the unfolding of their creativivity.

International Campus of Excellence

The UPV/EHU in conjunction with Tecnalia Corporación Tecnológica and the Donostia internacional Physics Center (DIPC) has been awarded with the International Campus of Excellence by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation. This private-public inter-institutional initiative was wet up with the legal standing of a foundation as it is the one that best adapts to achieving the goals of the Campus of International Excellence Euskampus project. Thus, Euskampus Fundazioa aspires to become a key element to drive Basque R&D&I and its internationalisation, with a clear vocation of social responsibility and integration with its territory.One of the principal objectives of Euskampus is to be an international benchmark for education, research and knowledge transfer.

Research as the bedrock of our activity

We seek to extend our international influence working on a ‘brain-gain’ basis and establishing cross-border campuses. With a view to reinforce our services and boost technological platforms, our General Research Services Unit (SGIker) commands the acquisition and handling of all research-structures. The University of the Basque Country equally manages several advanced-groundwork centres: The Lucio Lascaray CIEA (Centre for Research and Advanced Studies in Vitoria-Gasteiz) is an innovative, energy efficient building hosting experimental and health sciences research groups; our D+D+I Korta Centre in Donostia-San Sebastián is the seat of the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility and the POLYMAT University Institute for Polymeric Materials. This campus also hosts the Material Physics Joint Centre, belonging to the University of the Basque Country and the CSIC; finally, our Scientific Park in the Campus of Biscay (under construction) will soon become the head office of intensive R+D groups, an enterprise incubator and other R+D+I activities support services.

Toward a multicultural university

The University of the Basque Country wishes to host an unrestricted and multicultural community. Our International Relations Office manages over 900 exchange agreements with other Spanish, European and International universities. Every year, our three campuses turn into lively melting pots where over 900 foreign students blend in with our local trainees. We take part in SICUE, the Spanish universities students´ exchange programme; ERASMUS, the most extended European mobility programme; and we furthermore have created our own exchange programmes with Latin-America (UPV/EHU-AMÉRICA LATINA) and other destinations (the USA, Canada, The Philipine Islands, New Zealand, Russia).

A number of our teaching staff travels to Central and Southern American universities in the frame of our PhD Studies Latin American Network and we are currently the coordinating institution of the Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Windows 20B project, which will enable 149 mobilities between Central America, Mexico and Europe in order to complete their Bachelor´s Degrees, Master Courses or PhD studies.

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