COIMBRA GROUP

'Coimbra Group'
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

Mission

Activities

Members

See also

External link

Mission

The Coimbra Group is:

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.

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

★ 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
'The 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

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)

External link

★ Coimbra Group official site