Aims and activities of the organisation
The USC is one of the nine Spanish universities included in the 2014 edition of the Academic Ranking of World Universities compiled by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Academic developments, highly acknowledged researchers, papers published in scientific journals are some of the criteria selected by the Chinese institution, which handles data from 2,000 universities.
The USC is in the vanguard of promoting the funding of university enterprise and knowledge. It has managed to attract the interest of other universities and the backing of national investors, in order to create venture capital societies at the service of university research. Read more
In Spain the USC is or has been:
-Obtaining ISO 9001 Certification for the academic area;
-Presenting the Social Responsibility Report;
-Graduates who occupy the post of radio physics and of intern psychology in the Ministry of Health;
-3rd as regards Academic Excellence Awards;
-6th in research and in the number of patents applied for;
-8th in funds received from the National R+D Plan ;
The USC is an historic higher education institution with 30 faculties and schools, 27 research centres, 56 master degrees, 53 PhD programmes and 42 official bachelor degrees. Internationalisation is a key element in the University´s strategic approach: the USC´s extensive experience is demonstrated in the international cooperation projects and joint research record so far.
The USC has been awarded with two International Campus of Excellence: Campus Vida and Campus do Mar. The former campus focuses on Life Sciences (Medical Sciences, Medical Technology, Biotechnology, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Nursing, Veterinary, Biology, Physics and Chemistry) while the latter covers three broad areas: Oceanography and Earth Sciences, Biological Oceanography and Marine Biology. International Campuses of Excellence represent a new concept for university campuses where the interaction of universities with research and technological centres, scientific and technological parks, businesses and other agents will develop territorial education, research and innovation communities oriented towards international excellence.
The role of USC in the CLASS project
- Administrative and financial project management including the WP1 and WP6 management
- Purchasing equipment for administrative and teaching issues in CA partners
- Hosting for the kick off meeting of the consortium
- Developing an action plan
- Task distribution among the local project team
- Developing, monitoring and approving the master program curriculum
- Developing plan for Teaching and instructing CA academic staff in syntactic, morphological and semantic structure of the English language
- Inviting external expert for the project monitoring
- Quality monitor of the master program
Operational capacity: Skills and expertise of key staff involved in the project
STAFF MEMBERS
E. Lopez Veloso
USC Team Coordinator
Director of the International Office (since 01/02/1998) In charge of international relations of the University of Santiago de Compostela. Read more