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.
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