Universidade de Vigo

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Universidade de Vigo

• Manuel J. Fernández Iglesias
• ceees_at_uvigo.es
• Commissioner for the European Higher Education
  Area
• Universidade de Vigo
• www.uvigo.es/ceees

FADO Formação Avançada e Desenvolvimento
Ocupacional
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Basic information

• Spanish Public University
• 1 of 3 Universities in Galicia (population 3
  Million, size 1/3 Portugal)
• 3 Campuses
• Vigo
• Ourense
• Pontevedra
• 20 Faculties / Schools
• 46 Degrees
• 5 Attached centres
• 1.500 lecturers and professors
• 29.000 full-time students

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Location

• Vigo 1h15m N of Porto
• Ourense 1h51m NE of Porto
• Pontevedra 1h27m N of Porto

Pontevedra
Ourense
Vigo
Porto
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Unique degrees in Galicia

• Industrial Engineering
• Telecommunication Engineering
• Mining Engineering
• Fine Arts
• Fashion Studies
• Translation Interpreting
• Advertising and Public Relations
• Food Sciences
• Marine Sciences

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Commited with industry

• Industrial Environment
• Citroën Factory (one of the most productive in
  PSA group) Automotive cluster
• Fashion industry Inditex (Zara, Massimo Duti,
  Pull Bear, Oshyo, ), Adolfo Dominguez
• Pescanova (Fisheries around the world)
• Shipyards (fishing Rodman Polyships, yatching
  Ronautica Yatchs)
• Intelsis, Televes
• Company chairs
• Anfaco
• Coren
• Fenosa Soluziona
• Comunitel
• Telefónica

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Commited to Quality

• Quality service that guarantees the quality
• of
• Its degrees
• Its laboratories
• Its research
• Its faculty members
• Its management processes
• According to state-of-the-art quality management
  standards

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Commited to technology

• Information and Communications Technologies (ICT)
  Area
• Introduces newest ICT products and services in
• Management
• Teaching
• Research

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Research

• Departments
• 12 Nature Health Sciences
• 17 Technology
• 13 Law Social Sciences
• 12 Arts Humanities
• gt 200 Research groups
• 57 PhD Programmes in 2004-06
• Revenues from 0,51 to 5,23 M /year in 10 years
  (1991-2001)

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International Relations

• More than 100 institutions in Europe
• Close links within the Galicia-Northern Portugal
  Euroregion
• Many links with Iberoamerica and USA (programmes,
  collaboration agreements)
• Argentina (Posadas-Misiones)
• Colombia (Cauca, Bucaramanga, )
• Mexico (Guadalajara, Monterrey)
• Venezuela (Simón Bolivar)
• Cuba (Santa Cruz)
• Costa Rica, Brasil,

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New Projects

• Marine Research Institute
• Isla de Toralla
• Fashion Studies
• Pontevedra, hosted by the School of Fine Arts
• Torganet
• Gigabit network linking together the 3 campuses,
  the Galician Supercomputing Center in Santiago,
  Universidade do Minho and Graphical Computation
  Center in Portugal

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Contact Info

• Address
• Universidade de Vigo.
• Campus Universitario S/N
• E-36310 Vigo. Spain
• www.uvigo.es
• Tel.[phone]
• E-mail informacion_at_uvigo.es