Founded by the Church in Valencia, the Universidad Católica de Valencia “San Vicente Mártir” has established itself as a centre of academic excellence and creativity, which seeks to place knowledge at the disposal of society. It has grown out of the pioneering work carried out since the 1950s by the Edetania Foundation Group, the University School of Nursing “Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados” and the Faculty of Business Studies. The University combines its Catholic identity with the rigour of an academic community. This unique character provides students with three main benefits: advanced learning centred jointly on faith and reason, the building of a true university community in a friendly academic atmosphere, and the development of a highly personal academic relationship between tutor and student.

The Universidad Católica de Valencia “San Vicente Mártir” was founded by the Archbishop of Valencia, Monsignor Agustín García-Gasco, on 8 December 2003, the feast of the Immaculate Conception, in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Valencia. In its founding statutes, the prelate recognized the concern shown by the Church in Valencia over the centuries for providing its Christian community and Valencian society with institutions that served to create, promote and revitalize university culture. The Church, for example, played a leading role in the founding of the University of Valencia five centuries earlier, and in that of many other university institutions. Monsignor José María García Lahiguera, Archbishop of Valencia, with the support of various religious institutions, founded the Edetania University Teacher Training School on 3 November 1969 and set up the Edetania Foundation Group, in January 1974. A few years later, in 1979, the then Archbishop of Valencia, Monsignor Miguel Roca Cabanellas and the Rector of the University of Valencia signed an agreement whereby Edetania became affiliated to the University of Valencia. This agreement remained in force until 2004. In 1999 the founding statutes were amended in order to respond to the growth experienced by Edetania, and to enable it to broaden its offer of academic courses. The Foundation signed a further affiliation agreement with the Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche in October 2002, which included the teaching of degrees in Psychology, Psychopedagogy, Sports Sciences, Social and Cultural Anthropology and Marine Sciences, which came to form part of the Edetania Faculty of Human and Education Sciences. In February 2004 the University incorporated the University School of Nursing “Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados” and the Faculty of Business Studies and its degrees in Business Management and Administration and Business Science. In March 2007, the University created a Faculty of Medicine offering degree courses in Medicine, Dentistry, Physiotherapy and Podiatry. Today the University comprises six faculties and one university school teaching 18 degree courses.

The University considers the university professor to be a scholar who is able to establish a relationship with his or her students based on knowledge and wisdom, and whose teachings can transmit the very notions of learning. Instruction, education and training are the three lynchpins holding teaching together. The university professor instructs, by making a fundamental contribution to the development of the student’s personality, the university professor educates, by encouraging the student to discover and develop his or her skills and talents, and the university professor trains in a humanistic sense, by providing the student with excellent professional skills and with a clear understanding of how he can work for the greater good of mankind. The University provides students with a rigorous and personally enriching education. Its primary goal is that students acquire a rounded education in the humanities and sciences and in their specific disciplines which will have a great repercussion in the future of our society. At the same time it strives to integrate knowledge within Catholic traditions. The progress of each student is closely monitored, not only as regards their academic work but also in terms of their personal growth. It is the goal of the University that all students acquire knowledge and technical skills as they also grow personally and professionally.

The Universidad Católica seeks to undertake an in-depth analysis of present-day reality by applying the specific methods appropriate to each academic discipline and, thus, enrich human knowledge. Each of these disciplines is studied systematically and then the various branches of knowledge are brought together so that the insights they shed on each other can be examined. This work serves as an excellent testimony, and one that today is greatly needed, to the trust placed by the Church in the intrinsic value of science and research. Therefore, all the University’s research work must achieve the following goals: strategies to promote knowledge integration, a dialogue between faith and reason, a concern for ethics, and a theological perspective.

Student life extends beyond the lecture theatres and their own private study. The aim of this service is to enrich the intellect and spirit of the university community by organizing a host of activities that bring the members’ personal faith and science closer together.

The University’s International Relations Service coordinates exchange programs for academic teaching staff and students. It is also responsible for all cooperation agreements with other European and Latin American institutions organized through various international programs including Socrates-Erasmus and Comenius.

STUDENT GUIDANCE CENTRE A student guidance service works to protect the personal welfare of the University’s students. The centre is staffed by a team of psychologists and experts in education that can provide students with support during their studies. The centre can help students evaluate their own study methods and develop better learning strategies and methods of work. The centre also provides students with emotional support in the form of developing their self-awareness, enhancing their self-control and identifying any psychological disorders. INSTITUTES The aim of the Instituto Superior de Investigación y Formación Socioeducativa Francisco Ferrer Luján (IFFL) is to promote extracurricular activities and research. It organizes a number of postgraduate courses and runs the University’s Summer School. The Instituto de Ciencias Sociológicas (INCIS) teaches courses in sociology and carries out research in fields related to man and his way of understanding and relating with his social environment. The Instituto Universitario de Ciencias de la Vida is one of the University’s own centres. Its work involves the planning, promotion, carrying out and disseminating of research activities in the various disciplines related to the defence of human life and the environment, adopting the lines of research based on Christian humanism and personal ecology established by the Magisterium of the Catholic Church. The Instituto de Estudios de la Empresa (INEDE) is the University’s Business School. Since its foundation, the INEDE has forged strong ties with local society and its business community, focusing its work in the training of entrepreneurs and business managers on its Master’s course and Executive Education program. Finally, other research institutes have been set up including the Instituto de Ciencias de la Actividad Física y el Deporte, conducting research in sport and physical activity, the environmental research group, the Instituto de Medio Ambiente y Ciencia Marina, and the Instituto de Psicología Aplicada y Ciencias de la Salud “Ana Balaguer”, promoting studies in the field of psychology and the health sciences. The UCV’s research institutes are completed by the “Doctor Viña Giner” Institute of Biomedicine, an Ethnology Studies Centre, the Jovellanos Research Institute of Politics and Economics, the Benedict XVI Human Rights Research Centre, a group studying the Ethics of Economic Behaviour and the “Colegio imperial de niños Huérfanos San Vicente Ferrer” conducting educational research. CAREERS SERVICE The University’s graduates can find employment through this service. It receives job offers from firms wishing to recruit professionasl with the proven academic and human qualities of the University’s students. BUSINESS START-UP SERVICE. This service provides professional advice and support to help students with an entrepreneurial spirit to set up their own firms. It encourages creativity, initiative and a spirit of cooperation among the university community. LIBRARY The University’s library is well stocked with the basic material to facilitate study and research activities. It houses more than 40,000 volumes, in addition to periodicals, journals, CD-ROMs and DVDs. The computerized catalogue can be consulted online via the University’s webpage, while the campus libraries also have reading rooms and areas where students can work together on team projects. PUBLISHING SERVICE “Ediciones de la Universidad Católica” is the University’s own publishing house responsible for publishing the studies carried out by its academic teaching staff and researchers. Two of its most recent collections include: “Cuadernos de Animación Sociocultural” and “Diálogos Contemporáneos”. Since 1989, the service has been responsible for publishing, each term, the journal “Edetania. Estudios y Propuestas de Educación”, which has established itself as a leader in the field of pedagogical research. CLINICS. Students studying on the various degree programs in the Faculty of Psychology and the Health Sciences can obtain valuable practical experience in the University’s clinics: dentistry, physiotherapy, podiatry, psychology, speech therapy and occupational therapy.

The University seeks to combine its Catholic identity with the rigours of an academic community. This unique character provides students with three main benefits: advanced learning centred jointly on faith and reason, the building of a true university community in a friendly academic atmosphere, and a highly personal academic relationship between tutor and student. The University safeguards a Catholic presence in the world of tertiary education which, in addition to teaching, also includes research, postgraduate study, the in-service training of its university academic staff and a highly qualified service placed at the disposal of the wider community. The University is a place for Christian thinking and promotes a personal approach in the humanistic and Christian teaching of people of all ages. The University seeks to cater to the requirements of the Valencia area by employing the latest learning technologies, offering tertiary education to a wide social spectrum - ensuring that nobody misses out on a university education for reasons of financial hardship - and seeking to provide the tools to answer the questions and solve the problems faced by the world at the start of the Third Millennium. http://www.ucv.es - ucv@ucv.es

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