The UOC is an online university born in response to the needs of the knowledge society and with the mission of providing lifelong learning and education. The main goals of the UOC are to help individuals satisfy their learning needs and to provide them with full access to knowledge, above and beyond the typical constraints of personal schedules and individual location. To achieve this, the University employs the latest information and communication technologies and provides an educational model based on personalized, student-centred learning and permanent supervision to guarantee effective academic progress. The UOC seeks to facilitate the training of people and to contribute to their progress and that of society by promoting specialised research based in and around the knowledge society. It also seeks to forge links with universities and institutions worldwide that share similar values and goals for the building of a global knowledge area.

The Foundation for the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya was created in 1994 as an initiative of the Catalan Government to provide distancing-learning university courses. The primary goal of the Foundation is to promote the growth and reputation of the UOC, with a particular concern for research in the field of the methods and techniques of distance-learning in tertiary education. The University is about to celebrate fifteen years of teaching and research and currently boasts 39,000 students in more than seventy different countries around the world and some 17,500 graduates.

he UOC has a well-earned reputation for the quality and rigour of its teaching. The UOC’s academic teaching staff: • carefully design the course curricula ensuring that all material are appropriate to students’ needs, • oversee the students’ learning process and • promote innovation and research. The courses offered by the UOC include fully approved undergraduate and master’s degrees as well as many postgraduate programs. The University also organizes many lifelong learning programs and can design bespoke courses as required. The degree courses taught at the UOC are designed in line with the criteria laid down in the 1999 Bologna Declaration, which seeks to establish a comparable system of qualifications throughout Europe in its endeavour to build a European Higher Education Area.

All research is conducted at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3). The IN3 is responsible for promoting innovative research within the UOC and works closely with the University’s lecturers and researchers on academic and scientific matters. It can provide support on questions related to research management, supervision and promotion. The IN3 also provides support to the Information and Knowledge Society doctorate program, the only one that can be studied entirely online. The IN3 was set up in the year 2000. Its Scientific Committee is chaired by Professor Manuel Castells, who evaluates and assesses teaching on the PhD programs. Research at the IN3 is conducted in groups or by project. The following are the main lines of research: Online learning, E-governance, The new economy, Virtual communities, The network society, The internet and everyday life, Psychology, health and the internet, Young people and new technologies, Information and knowledge management, Communication and new media, Free software, Software engineering, Intellectual property, Mathematics online

Fourteen years’ experience in e-learning and a thriving community of graduates endorse the UOC´s International Graduate Institute, which brings together all graduate lifelong learning and bespoke in-company programs. The mission of the UOC and the International Graduate Institute is to promote accessible e-learning for all: • Open, innovative and up-to-date courses adapted to the present needs of individuals and organizations and their future challenges. The UOC seeks to train professionals with the right skills to build successful professional careers in technological, international, innovative and flexible environments. • Intensive use of information and communication technologies as a way of making knowledge more accessible to society and ensuring that technological resources facilitate individuals’ lifelong learning, irrespective of their professional and family situation. • An international, multilingual vocation to achieve better cooperation and development across the globe transcending barriers between countries, cultures and languages. Striving to ensure that, any person, anywhere in the world, has the facilities to learn, develop and participate in a global community of students.

The UOC has a strong international presence thanks to its strategy of forging links with other universities and research institutions around the world. These partnerships have the following objectives: • joint undertakings based on respect for, and acceptance of, cultural and language differences. • contributing to promote Catalan culture and the UOC worldwide. The UOC promotes an integrated system of research, information and documentation relating to the use of ICTs in education through the UNESCO Chair in E-learning. One of the Chair’s primary goals is to promote equal opportunities for accessing new technologies in the knowledge society.

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The UOC is a Catalan university with an international presence, sensitive to the diversity of its environment and committed to the power of education and culture to effect social change. The UOC promotes creativity, innovation, cooperation and exchange within its own university community and with other universities, institutions, the business community and Catalan society. The UOC is a leader in knowledge creation and the promotion of culture in our society, providing access to education and fostering the dissemination of culture. The UOC forges alliances in the fields of education, multilingualism and cultural action with a view to encouraging the emergence of new quality cultural proposals. The UOC is committed to promoting Catalan society, science and language and conducts its activity within the framework of the public university system while at the same time complementing the work of other universities.

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