The Universitat de Girona (UdG) is a public higher education institution dedicated to teaching, research, knowledge transfer and innovation. Firmly rooted in its local environment, it shares many interests and objectives with the city and province of Girona: the UdG contributes to the area’s development by educating professionals and citizens and by working together with the key actors in other sectors to consolidate and expand the area’s international profile. As the city’s main economic and cultural driving force, the UdG combines a respect for tradition with a clear commitment to progress and an openness to different cultures. The University seeks excellence in teaching and research and generates new expertise in many fields – science, technology, the humanities, teaching, health, social sciences and arts – which it shares with the rest of society. The University has three campuses in and around the city of Girona and forms part of the system of Catalan public universities.

The University of Girona came into being under the name of Estudi General, established in 1446 by King Alfonso the Magnanimous, who granted Girona a charter to award degrees in grammar, rhetoric, philosophy, theology, law and medicine. The first courses were organized by the municipal trustees and the Church and were held in the Les Àligues building, which now houses the Rectorate. The courses enjoyed an excellent reputation, but they were abolished in 1717 when Catalonia lost its national identity after the War of the Spanish Succession. After the liberal revolution of the nineteenth century, the city council promoted the establishment of the Free University of Girona, which offered courses in Law and Pharmacy until 1874. Milestones in the University’s recent history have been the opening of the Teacher Training School and, above all, the creation of new faculties and schools in the 1960s, such as the University College of Girona and the Polytechnical School, which introduced new university courses, and the re-opening of the Estudi General, which taught courses in humanities, business administration, science and social science. In 1991, the new Universitat de Girona was created by the Generalitat, Catalonia’s autonomous government.

UdG has nine faculties and schools offering degrees in sciences, economics and business administration, education and psychology, law, humanities, architecture and engineering, nursing, tourism and communication, and medicine. Other affiliated schools give courses in tourism, audiovisual studies and physiotherapy. In all, the University teaches over 40 degree courses which are continuously being updated: for example, 39 new undergraduate degrees are currently being adapted to the requirements of the EHEA. The UdG is committed to quality teaching and to providing attention to students’ specific needs. The undergraduate degrees are supplemented with master’s, doctorates and university extension programs. The degree courses place special emphasis on encouraging language skills and on developing an entrepreneurial spirit.

The commitment to quality teaching goes hand in hand with decisive support for research, knowledge transfer, and innovation throughout the University’s twenty-one departments, which encompass a broad spectrum of disciplines and subject areas. The priority lines of research are conducted mainly at its ten research institutes and several independent research centres with which the University maintains strong links. These centres are located in the Science and Technology Park, which serves as a bridge between the University environment and the social and economic sectors. In addition, a score of university chairs promote reflection and study in matters of a multidisciplinary nature, rooted in the local area but with a strong international dimension. The UdG has over 100 research groups, which investigate areas such as water and environmental resources, technology and agrifood, computer simulation and its information system applications, biomedicine, tourism, quality of life and cultural and linguistic heritage

The University promotes an extensive range of lifelong learning programs, with a total of 250 university extension courses organized each year by the UdG Foundation under the title Innovació i Formació (Innovation and Training). The UdG also promotes classes for older members of society, providing opportunities for learning new skills and personal development under the guidance of university faculty. To supplement the teaching given during the academic year, and combining quality teaching with the relaxed environment outside the conventional academic classroom situation, for over 20 years now the UdG has organized a Summer School, which organizes activities in a number of different formats and disciplines, as well as musical performances staged throughout the province of Girona. The University also schedules a variety of cultural activities (theatre workshops, castellers, choir-singing, radio, and so on), and sport, and actively encourages faculty members to take part in the intellectual life of the city.

The UdG’s international vocation is reflected in the strengthening of international relations through its active participation in national, state and European university networks. The University has held numerous international conferences and enjoys excellent relations with universities in the European Union, America and Africa, reflecting to its firm commitment to development and cooperation throughout the world. The interest in internationalization is embodied in the range of courses on offer at the Modern Languages Service, a unit that plays a key role in consolidating exchange programs with other universities. The UdG welcomes students from all manner of places and backgrounds.

Universitat de Girona has three campuses (Montilivi, Barri Vell and Centre). The Montilivi campus is a new construction, with landmark buildings of architectural interest set in landscaped surroundings, the Barri Vell campus, which forms part of the historical heritage of the city, includes the refurbished Escola Normal and the headquarters of the UdG Foundation. At the three campuses, the University provides academic staff and students with the services they need to carry out their teaching and research and their sporting and recreational activities as well, with special emphasis on respect for the environment and sustainability. The UDg also has one of the best libraries in the country, computer rooms, wi-fi connection, an accommodation service and a careers guidance office. The most recent UdG facility is the Science and Technology Park in the Creueta area, a cluster of buildings which places the business sector in permanent contact with the entrepreneurial activity of university researchers and students.

The Universitat de Girona is a firmly interdisciplinary institution that promotes progress in the most varied fields of science, technology, the humanities, the social sciences and health. The variety of academic interests is one of the University’s most valued assets. Dialogue between different disciplines is the essential guiding force behind the University’s teaching and research, alongside close contact with all students. UdG is located in an economically dynamic environment, in a city that provides an ideal setting for an intense cultural and social life. The UdG is committed to the intelligent use of information technologies and the new social tools made available by the Internet. It implements information systems that use the communication options required by the University community in the Web 2.0 framework, with the added advantage of the high connectivity available on the campuses. In addition, the teaching intranet that has been constructed over in the last few years permits motivating distance-learning activities to back up class-based teaching, in association with the teaching innovations within the EHEA framework.

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