The University of Cantabria, via its International Relations Office, sees the entire university community's internationalization as one of its primary goals and mobility as the essential requirement to successfully achieve this international objective.
In an attempt to further improve services for students, we have prepared this complete Exchange Students' Guide, which will hopefully be a handy tool for rapid consultation as to what studies our university has to offer, thereby allowing you to understand better its academic system, the conditions, and processes of admission and to know where the Office for International Relations is and what activities it carries out. We trust that this guide's information will help make your stay here at the university fulfilling, both academically and personally, and that you will enjoy the many attractions of this pleasant city and this beautiful region.
UC & Cantabria International Campus is based on the Knowledge Society Paradigm. The main idea of this concept is to create a state where rational messages are communicated and applied3. Consequently, a global network of human interactions, based on scientific culture4, will contribute to communities' development.
This paradigm inspired the EU Lisbon Strategy Its primary objective: is to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge‐based economy globally, with the ability to grow sustainably and with social cohesion. In 2008, the European Council renewed its commitment by stressing the need to invest in people, knowledge, and innovation. It is thus of crucial importance to promote the free circulation of knowledge by improving our education system. In other words, education must serve to consolidate a truly productive economy that also fosters civic and cultural development and individual creativity.
In this respect, universities are essential agents of change and progress in their regional environments. Their concentric or radial models of cooperation and institutional aggregation become relevant instruments to achieve this goal.On the conceptual basis provided by the paradigm of the Knowledge Society and the model Campus Integral,
To coordinate and to organize the integrated efforts of all the private and public sectors of the Community, as well as of the university groups (academic staff, students, administrative staff), to stimulate areas of international excellence capable of contributing regional value across processes of training, research and transfer.
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