Coimbra Group

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Coimbra Group
Data
Established	1985
Members	38
Continent	Europe
Countries	mostly EU countries also Norway and Switzerland
Honorary President 2006-2007	Jorma Mattinen, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Chairman of the Executive Board	Guido Langouche, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Office Director	Inge Knudsen
Address	Egmontstraat 11, rue d'Egmont 1000 Brussels Belgium
Acronym	CG
Homepage	http://www.coimbra-group.eu

The Coimbra Group (CG) is a network of European universities that gathers 38 universities, some of which are among the oldest and most prestigious in Europe. It was founded in 1985 and formally constituted by charter in 1987.

The group took its name from the city of Coimbra, Portugal, and the university located there, itself one of the oldest in Europe.

Contents 1 Mission 2 Activities 3 Members 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Mission

The Coimbra Group is:

...an association of long-established European multidisciplinary universities of high international standard committed to creating special academic and cultural ties in order to promote, for the benefit of its members, internationalization, academic collaboration, excellence in learning and research, and service to society. It is also the purpose of the Group to influence European educational policy and to develop best practice through the mutual exchange of experience.

—Coimbra Group

[edit] Activities

In pursuit of its Mission the Coimbra Group aims to:

• Facilitate knowledge transfer between its constituent universities by means of staff and student interchange so that they can benefit from the added value given by membership of the Coimbra Group, whilst respecting the cultural and national identities of individual universities and their individual freedom in learning and research.
• Work with European Union (EU) institutions with a view to participating in or organizing EU higher education and research projects to the benefit of Coimbra Group members.
• Contribute to the debate within Europe on quality in higher education and promote the adoption of quality assurance mechanisms within its member universities.
• Become a driving force in the creation and further development of the European Higher Education Area and promote the academic expertise of its members within this area and the European Research Area.
• Be recognized as an expert body, able to advise its members and EU institutions on various matters relating to higher education, such as information technology (IT) as applied to new teaching methods and lifelong learning.
• Encourage co-operation in cultural, social and sporting activities between its members.
• Promote the Coimbra Group worldwide as a source of academic excellence in Europe, with a view to attracting students to the universities in the Coimbra Group and encouraging academic collaboration and interchange with its members.

[edit] Members

Austria University of Graz  Belgium Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Dutch-speaking) Université catholique de Louvain (French-speaking)  Czech Republic Charles University in Prague  Denmark University of Aarhus  Estonia University of Tartu  Finland Åbo Akademi University University of Turku  France University of Lyon University of Montpellier (Montpellier is treated as 3 institutions) University of Poitiers  Germany Georg-August University of Göttingen Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg Friedrich Schiller University of Jena University of Würzburg  Greece Aristotle University of Thessaloniki  Hungary Eötvös Loránd University  Ireland National University of Ireland, Galway University of Dublin (Trinity College Dublin, sole constituent college of the university)

Italy University of Bologna University of Padua University of Pavia University of Siena  Netherlands University of Groningen Leiden University  Norway University of Bergen  Poland Jagiellonian University  Portugal University of Coimbra  Romania University of Iaşi  Spain University of Barcelona University of Granada University of Salamanca  Sweden Uppsala University  Switzerland University of Geneva  United Kingdom University of Bristol University of Cambridge University of Edinburgh University of Oxford

[edit] See also

• List of universities and colleges by country
• League of European Research Universities (LERU; an association of top European research universities)
• Ivy League (a group comprising some prestigious US universities)
• Group of Eight (Go8; a group of leading Australian universities)
• Russell Group (a group of some of the top research-focused universities in the UK)
• Group of Thirteen leading Canadian universities
• IDEA League (a strategic alliance of five of Europe's leading technical universities)
• Irish Universities Association (a group of leading Irish universities)

[edit] External links

• Coimbra Group official site

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