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The UOC is an innovative university that is rooted in Catalonia and open to the world. It offers people lifelong learning to help them and society advance while researching society's knowledge. Its educational model is based on personalization and accompanying students using e-learning. The UOC wants to be a university that, by being connected to the world's universities' network, drives the creation of a global knowledge space and cutting-edge research in the knowledge society. The UOC has an innovative educational model that focuses on the student. The University offers them a top-quality and personalized education that helps them be more competitive and contributes to society's progress. The five values that guide the UOC's activities are: Commitment to students, graduates, and society to service quality and constant innovation within the organization. Respect for people, ideas, cultures, and the world. Transparency in information, data, and processes. Professionalism is to empower the people who form part of the organization, recognize our successes, and learn from our mistakes. Sustainability, whether economic, social, or environmental, of the activities undertaken by the organization. The UOC's has been the University's hallmark since its beginnings. It was created to offer an effective solution for the educational needs of people engaged in lifelong learning and to optimally leverage the potential offered by the internet to learn in a flexible environment. The UOC Strategic Plan is the road map that accompanies the University's strategy and prioritizes decision-making. The UOC's current strategic plan encompasses the period 2014-2020. It is structured in five areas, which are implemented through 17 strategic objectives. Since its creation, the UOC has been committed to quality, striving to achieve excellence in education services, training, and organizational processes and ensuring its programs' academic rigor. Since its beginnings, the UOC has been decisive in its commitment to quality and continuous improvement as the cornerstones of its strategy and as a differentiating factor and common feature of its activities. For this reason, the University has established a quality policy and has organized a quality system, defining its processes in line with the continuous improvement cycle, which describes four necessary steps to achieve quality improvement: plan, do assess or review and act accordingly, that is, improve. View full university

Welcome to the project of your life. UIC Barcelona is the ideal place for carrying it out. Since 1997, we have been developing people based on academic rigor, university life, and enriching life experiences. Christian humanism inspires us to search for truth and to develop each project thoroughly. We provide the opportunity to study in one of the world's most vibrant cities, part of our identity. We are a prestigious university and home to over 6,000 students. Here you will find 14-degree programs, eight dual-degree international programs, and a wide range of master's and postgraduate degrees, in addition to continuing education courses in the field of your choice. We place each student at the center and turn them into the key players at UIC Barcelona. That is our commitment to them. To you. We respond by providing individual attention, small class sizes, a close relationship with the teaching body, support services, and everything you need to maximize your skills. Each university is different. We do things that set us apart: personal attention, a comprehensive approach to each student, continuous links to the professional world, and innovative teaching and research methods. We have signed agreements with over 50 companies and institutions, which trust in the centers, chairs, and institutes at UIC Barcelona. We are connected to society and companies. Our teaching is practical. It is imparted by teachers who are also active professionals and is complemented by a work placement program that will help give you your first work experience. As a result, UIC Barcelona has the best graduate employment rate in the Catalan university system year after year. In addition to knowledge, research, and knowledge transfer, we invest time and effort in learning so that we might change the world. You will see this ambition in the people and activities at UIC Barcelona. It is part of our DNA. We are committed to you and academic excellence; we have created an environment designed to support teaching professionals and researchers. We promote a culture in which you are responsible for your education. Play an active, collaborative role with cutting-edge tools. Take part in activities and gain autonomy. We implement innovative and effective methods geared towards life in the real world (problem-solving, cooperative learning, independent learning, self-assessment, project-based learning, etc.). We use ICT as part of our teaching approach (online activities, computerized and multimedia support materials, etc.). We systematize our academic activities (tutorials —tutoring models—, classwork, work placement, and ECTS model projects). We promote internationalization: mobility opportunities for students and lecturers and alliances with renowned universities and research centers. We implement ENQA (European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education) criteria and guidelines to ensure UIC Barcelona meets the quality standards set out for European higher education institutions. At our university, we are committed to good quality pioneering teaching at an individual level. We teach people to become skilled professionals with a multidisciplinary perspective, dealing with work-related challenges in a global environment and contributing to a more just world based on greater solidarity. As rector, my responsibility is to promote the quality of our teaching, research, and transfer of knowledge, so these can be placed at the service of companies and society as a whole. At our university, we adapt to your needs and aspirations, and we would like to accompany you throughout your professional life. You will find all the information you need about UIC Barcelona on this page about the undergraduate and postgraduate degrees we offer. You can also apply for admission right here. View full university

The Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya is a higher education institution with a public service commitment to understanding music as a multidimensional phenomenon. The Erasmus aims to achieve a dynamizing role in the Catalan musical and cultural scene. The School first opened its doors in 2001 in Barcelona. Today, with over 700 students from 28 countries studying at degree or post-degree level, the Esmuc offers an inspiring environment to develop as a musician and is fast becoming an international benchmark for its training excellence. The school facilities help towards the quality of education that this institution wishes to offer. For this reason, they are at the disposal of students and, in general, the entire educational community. Our School has been a pioneer in imparting the title of music with the European Higher Education Area criteria. This integration of higher artistic education in the EHEA makes it possible to overcome the distinction between the university and non-university higher qualifications and, at the same time, reinforce the exchange and circulation strategies of students and teachers in Europe. AQU is a public entity whose mission is to guarantee the quality of higher education following European standards. Its activity is developed through analysis, evaluation, and accreditation, in which the educational community and social agents are involved, with a perspective oriented towards innovation. Since 2012, and by order of the Department of Education, AQU Catalunya is the body responsible for the verification, monitoring, modification, and accreditation of higher artistic education. The purpose of the Foundation is to manage, promote, and support the teaching of the Bachelor degree and that of the School itself. The Board of Patrons of the Foundation is made up of representatives from the Departments of Education, Culture and Economics and Knowledge, and members of L'Auditori and Orchestra Consortium, the Municipal Institute of Education of Barcelona (Institut Municipal d'Educació de Barcelona - IMEB), the Catalan Board of Music and the Gran Teatre del Liceu, amongst others. View full university

We are a young university, officially recognized by the Parliament of Catalonia in May 1997. We want to play a part in Europe and the more expansive world-building on our strong Catalan roots. From its very beginnings, UVic-UCC has promoted academic quality and a humane context for student-centered training. Our teaching programs offer quality and contact with students, as required for the European Higher Education Area. We also feel a strong commitment to Catalonia - its university system and the language and culture - and regional development. We contribute to services outside the Barcelona area and promote a sustainable future. The UVic-UCC is under the authority of the Fundació Universitària Balmes, whose Board of Governors has a majority of representatives from the Vic City Council and the Generalitat of Catalonia. This combined model of independent management and public control guarantees a flexible, accountable, and efficient government. Our vocation to public service, as outlined in the founding parliamentary text itself, is reflected in Generalitat financial support and UVic-UCC participation in the general Catalan university enrolment scheme. The University of Vic: the Central University of Catalonia emerged from a regional and citizens' initiative to continue with a university tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages. UVic-UCC is a public university under private management. It provides a public service in teaching, research, and knowledge transfer in its fields of expertise. Its mission is to develop knowledge and innovation to serve the region, and it has a distinctive international vocation. It focuses on students and their comprehensive training and instills individual creativity, professional rigor, and social commitment. The UVic-UCC is closely associated with the local environment and Catalonia's cultural, social, and economic progress. The University of Vic: the Central University of Catalonia is governed by the Balmes University Foundation (in Spanish), whose board comprises three representatives from the Catalan Government, 16 from municipal bodies, 12 from civil society and associated entities, and three representatives of the university itself. This system of public control and private management facilitates an efficient, responsible, flexible model of governance. The training model (in Spanish) of the UVic-UCC ensures full personal growth and professional development of students, who are accompanied throughout their training so that learning is personalized. Training is organized through the teamwork of teachers and the entire university community. The UVic considers multilingual training an essential aspect for increased mobility of university students and staff, and the study of languages and culture and excellent vehicles for gaining a broader awareness of today's world. All undergraduate courses include several credits in English for professional purposes. The universal scope of UVic-UCC science and training builds on Catalan society's present-day reality –with the Catalan language as its shared symbol of identity– and Europe as a unifying force. UVic-UCC considers international exchange programs and internships abroad to be essential. The UVic-UCC has an Education Innovation and Training Centre (CIFE) (in Spanish) to promote lifelong learning of university teaching staff, tutorial plans, and innovation to improve teaching quality. UVic is a local university committed to the economic and social development of the surrounding region and Catalonia (in Spanish) through its teaching, research, and knowledge transfer activity, imbued with a distinctive European and international vocation. At the UVic-UCC and FUBalmes, which is the university's owner, ethical behavior is based on three values: individual commitment, impartiality, and scientific truth. The University's Ethical Code (in Spanish) comprises twelve general principles designed to raise people's awareness of the need for ethical behavior and their responsibilities as members of the UVic-UCC community and FUBalmes. The University of Vic: the Central University of Catalonia emerged from a regional and citizens' initiative to continue with a university tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages. UVic-UCC is a public university under private management. It provides a public service in teaching, research, and knowledge transfer in its fields of expertise. Its mission is to develop knowledge and innovation to serve the region, and it has a distinctive international vocation. It focuses on students and their comprehensive training and instills individual creativity, professional rigor, and social commitment. The UVic-UCC is closely associated with the local environment and Catalonia's cultural, social, and economic progress. View full university