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BASIC FACTS

The University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) is a teaching and research institution officially founded in 1980. The university employs over 7.500 people in 31 faculties and schools distributed in three different campuses, with more than 57.000 undergraduate and postgraduate students. The UPV/EHU has been recognised as an International Research Campus of Excellence by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN). Our courses catalogue consists of 67 Bachelor´s Degrees in all fields of knowledge. At postgraduate level, we offer 103 official master programmes, 44 professional & expert diplomas and 71 PhD programmes.

The UPV/EHU wishes to host an unrestricted and multicultural community. Our International Relations Office manages over 900 exchange agreements with other Spanish, European and International universities. Every year, our three campuses turn into lively melting pots where over 900 foreign students blend in with our local trainees. We take part in SICUE, the Spanish universities students´ exchange programme; ERASMUS, the most extended European mobility programme; and we furthermore have created our own exchange programmes with Latin-America (UPV/EHU-AMÉRICA LATINA) and other destinations (the USA, Canada, The Philipine Islands, New Zealand, Russia).

In 2014 the UPV/EHU started to support Erasmus + Programmes. By the time it has been the beneficiary of 6 Jean Monnet, 18 KA2 Strategic Partnerships, 2 KA2 Capacity Building, 1KA3 Support for policy reform and 2 Sports.

MISSION STATEMENT

UPV/EHU mission is to nurture an enlightened population by providing quality education and training based on knowledge, innovation and equity. As a public institution we are community-funded, and both fees and services rely only to a small extent on students: our university is owned by all, open to all. We support the acceptance of alterity and the inclusion of all members beyond discrepancies of any kind.

The UPV/EHU is a unique custodian of our age-old linguistic heritage: we have raised Basque language (the only pre Indo-European tongue still spoken) to the highest educational level.

CORE VALUES

Education as the base of a free society
Acceptance and inclusion beyond differences

PARTICIPATION IN THE EDU4ALL PROJECT

The UPV/EHU plays the role of Higher Education Institution (HEI) of a programme country that is transferring the know-how to partner country HEIs. With the aim of teaching people with disabilities in partner countries, UPV/EHU supports the modernisation, accessibility and internationalisation of partner country HEIs, by adapting learning materials, tools and pedagogical approaches, ensuring quality at institutional level. Training staff on teaching and dealing with students with disabilities and lab equipment are also objectives of the project. Therefore, this project contributes to cooperation between the EU and partner countries, by promoting people-to-people contacts, intercultural awareness and understanding. 

UPV/EHU is the leader of WP3, following up procedures to assure adherence of all project aspects and outputs to the quality assurance mechanisms. UPV/EHU also participates in activities of the other work packages of the Edu4ALL project. People from EGOKITUZ research group are involved in this project (http://www.egokituz.org/en/).