Coimbra Group

Coimbra Group
Data
Established	1985
Members	40
Continent	Europe
Countries	mostly EU countries also Norway, Switzerland, Turkey and Russia
Honorary President 2011-2012	Rector Giuseppe Zaccaria, University of Padova, Italy
Executive Board Chair	Dorothy Kelly, University of Granada, Spain
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 40 European universities, some 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 its university, one of the oldest in Europe.

Mission

The Coimbra Group is:

...an association of long-established European comprehensive, 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 education and research policy and to develop best practice through the mutual exchange of experience.

—Coimbra Group

Activities

The group took its name from the city of Coimbra, Portugal and the university located there.

In pursuit of its Mission the Coimbra Group aims to:

• Facilitate all forms of interchange, especially academic, cultural, social and sporting, and knowledge transfer among its member universities, their students and staff, with a view to ensuring full advantage is taken of the added value brought about by network cooperation.

• Promote the role of comprehensive multidisciplinary research universities in today’s changing global scene.

• Promote the Group worldwide as a reference of academic excellence in Europe, with a view to attracting students to the member universities and to encouraging academic cooperation and interchange between the members and institutions from around the world.

• Act as a driving force in the development of the European Higher Education and European Research Areas (EHEA and ERA) and promote the academic expertise of its members within these areas

• Contribute to the debate on higher education in Europe and, where appropriate, influence European policy.

• Act as an expert body, able to advise its members and other institutions (including the European Commission and its agencies) on matters relating to higher education.

• Promote academic and cultural heritage in higher education for the XXIst century.

• Promote the role of universities in service to society at different levels, especially their impact on local, regional and global development.

• Promote the importance of research integrity in scientific practice.

• Ensure that adequate attention is paid to and full advantage taken of gender diversity and that equal opportunities exist.

Members

Austria University of Graz Belgium Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Dutch-speaking) Université catholique de Louvain (French-speaking) Czech Republic Charles University in Prague Denmark Aarhus University Estonia University of Tartu Finland Åbo Akademi University (Swedish-speaking) University of Turku (Finnish-speaking) 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 Julius-Maximilian 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 Russia Saint Petersburg State University Romania University of Iaşi Spain University of Barcelona University of Granada University of Salamanca Sweden Uppsala University Switzerland University of Geneva Turkey Istanbul University 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)
• Top Industrial Managers for Europe (TIME network)
• 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)
• U15, a group of leading Canadian universities
• IDEA League (a strategic alliance of five of Europe's leading technical universities)
• International Research Universities Network
• Irish Universities Association (a group of leading Irish universities)
• In philosophy, the designation Coimbra Group may also refer to the 16th/17th century Collegium Conimbricenses and the Coimbra Commentaries on Aristotle.

External links

• Official website