Universia
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| Industry | Education |
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| Founded | July 9, 2000 in Madrid, Spain |
| Headquarters | 15 countries around the world (Andorra, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela.) |
| Website | http://www.universia.net www.universia.net |
Universia is a network that consists of 1,1000 Universities in 15 countries: Andorra, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela. It has 12 internet sites, one for each country, and another global site which offers information and contents from across the network. Universia network represents 10.1 million students, 8 million users and 850,000 university teaching staff (75% of the total number of students and staff in these countries), an all the money goes to Santander Bank.
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[edit] Objectives
The goal of Universia is to promote change and innovation in products and services linked to the Academic Community, helping Universities to develop shared projects and create new opportunities.
- At Universia we want to help universities build the future. A future
which under the name of Web 2.0 presents use with new challenges linked to interactivity, the creation of communities, the organization of content, multimedia development and, overall, the increase of user involvement, the main asset.
- Strengthen our dimension as a global university cooperation network.
- Promote opportunities for the exchange of experience and collaboration. Through meetings with representatives from the academic, business and institutional sectors we promote the sharing of different experiences and partnership agreements.
- Give to university students different employment and scholarship opportunities as well as new ways to develop themselves both academically and professionally.
- Share technological innovation opportunities in order to contribute in the spreading of knowledge and results of research.
- Because the model of information portals is evolving into a decentralized structure made up of users’ contribution, Universia’s objective is to develop universities’ projects so we can mark a tendency in this sense.
[edit] Mission
Universia network includes university resources to create synergies which facilitate a common forum of knowledge exchange, cooperation and innovation that helps promote new opportunities in order to contribute to the sustainable development of the university community.
[edit] Vision
Universia’s vision is to become the most extensive network for Spanish and Portuguese speakers that foments higher education opportunities and international cooperation between universities, students and professors. To become, also, the international reference of corporate social responsibility with the sponsorship of Santander Bank.
[edit] History
Universia was created in July 2000 as an internet initiative in the higher education sector. It is promoted by a group of Spanish universities with the support of the Spanish University Rectors' Board (CRUE), the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and sponsored by the Santander Group.
Universia was officially presented in Madrid (Spain) on July 9, 2000 as a Spanish initiative with a clear Spanish American vocation. On the same day almost all the Universia societies were also formally incorporated (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico and Venezuela). The Portugal branch was created a year later, followed by Uruguay in November 2005.
During the 2008, Universia welcomed Andorra, Panama, Paraguay and Dominican Republic. In order to expand the network towards the world, during March 2009 the basic information of Universia was published in Wikipedia in 5 languages under the edition and translation of Pabsi González from Universia Puerto Rico (http://www.universia.pr)
Today, Universia is the largest network of universities in the world.
[edit] Services and Content
[edit] Preuniversia
Assist students form high school and help them find scholarships as well as the right university or higher education institution.
[edit] Academic Mobility (MAI)
Help students that are studying abroad and help the ones that want to do it to find the best programs and scholarships available.
[edit] Jobs
Universia offers jobs in and outside the local job market.
[edit] Development
Offers conferences and seminars for development of Professional Education
[edit] Universia News
Universia News offers different themed news: local universities, international universities, scholarships, jobs, culture and more.
[edit] Scholarships
Universia is the encounter point in which students find monetary aid that helps them continue studying.
[edit] Calendar
Local cultural activities are exposed.
[edit] References
References and university catalogs are included in this virtual library.
[edit] Courses
Promotion and specific details of the courses offered in Universia’s universities. Every semester, including summer, the courses vary.
[edit] Academic Research
Search tool with students’ interests in mind.
[edit] Gallery
Downloaded pictures of local activities enjoyed by students.
[edit] Blogs
Universia’s writers create Blogs in which students and professors can participate in different ways: asking questions, sharing experiences and providing feedback. The current four Blogs are: Study Abroad, Jobs, Marketing and Movies.
[edit] Innoversia
A system that gets in contact both investigators and businesses in order to find applicable solutions to the actual needs of the business world and generate beneficial contributions for both spheres of activity.
[edit] Universia TV
Audiovisual material that shows Universia’s community some of the activities and promotions related to students, universities and current academic affairs.
[edit] Newsletters
Universia has 4 newsletters which can be accessed in the following URL: http://www.universia.pr/pdf/publicaciones.jsp
- Universia Knowledge@Wharton
- Next Wave Science
- GCG: Revista de Globalización, Competitividad y Gobernabilidad
- Universia Business Review
[edit] Courses of action
Universia’s actions in favor of the higher education are based on four large strategic lines:
- Formation = Information for the learning and support of continuous education.
- Jobs = Interns, formal jobs and professional development.
- Observatory = Focused in observing Science’s and higher educations’ future.
- Social Networks = Communities for students to participate in and visit during their free time.
