University of Girona

Universitat de Girona

Catalonia, Spain

Additional Information

Web site of university:
https://www.udg.edu/en/

Institutional report:
UdG – Institutional report

Action plan:
UdG Action plan

Contact us

Email: vr.territori,compromis@udg.edu

Summary

The Universitat de Girona (UdG) is a comprehensive public higher education institution devoted to academic excellence that strives to contribute to the progress of society through the creation, transmission and dissemination of knowledge. UdG, since its official creation in 1991, has been closely connected to its surroundings, to its region. The location of the campuses in the city of Girona, the provincial capital, which is 100 km from Barcelona, offers a varied and rich area of influence.

Community engagement is part of the organizational identity of UdG since its creation and is now put into practice with the existence of a specific Vice-rectorate for Territory and Social Commitment the importance of this area in the life of the UdG.

Institutional community engagement heatmap

Dimensions of community engagement	Authenticity	Social needs	Communities	Spread	Sustainability
Teaching and learning
Research
Service and knowledge exchange
Students
Management / partnerships
Management / policies
Peer support

Heatmap colour legend:

Lowest level

Highest level

In the TEFCE Toolbox: „4 The heatmap is focused on the dimensions of community-engagement activities. The dimensions that relate to the supportive environment for community engagement (Dimensions VI – Management/policies; and Dimension VII – Supportive peers) are only subject to the ‘Authenticity’ characteristic of the heatmap since those dimensions relate to ensuring the institutional conditions for engaging with communities rather than on engagement activities themselves.“

Featured practices

Volunteering and mentoringUniversity of GironaCatalonia, Spain

IV. Students
V. Management (partnerships and openness)
University training program for people over 50 years of ageUniversity of GironaCatalonia, Spain

I. Teaching and learning
UdG Education WeekUniversity of GironaCatalonia, Spain

III. Service and knowledge exchange
Territorial Chairs of the University of GironaUniversity of GironaCatalonia, Spain

V. Management (partnerships and openness)
VI. Management (policies, support structures)
Teaching Innovation Networks in Service LearningUniversity of GironaCatalonia, Spain

I. Teaching and learning
Social Commitment UnitUniversity of GironaCatalonia, Spain

V. Management (partnerships and openness)
VI. Management (policies, support structures)
Sectorial HubsUniversity of GironaCatalonia, Spain

III. Service and knowledge exchange
VI. Management (policies, support structures)
Science FairUniversity of GironaCatalonia, Spain

I. Teaching and learning
II. Research
Promoting higher education among secondary schoolsUniversity of GironaCatalonia, Spain

I. Teaching and learning
IV. Students
Polytechnic Board of the Universitat de GironaUniversity of GironaCatalonia, Spain

V. Management (partnerships and openness)
Mathematical modelling of the human towersUniversity of GironaCatalonia, Spain

III. Service and knowledge exchange
GAMAR (Office for Materials and Research in Schools Mathematics)University of GironaCatalonia, Spain

I. Teaching and learning
Expertise and Social Transformation courseUniversity of GironaCatalonia, Spain

I. Teaching and learning
Eco-solidarity allotment of the UdGUniversity of GironaCatalonia, Spain

III. Service and knowledge exchange
V. Management (partnerships and openness)

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* Methodological note:
The aim of this feature is to allow users to explore the variety of ways in which universities approach and organise community engagement, without allowing a direct/competitive comparison of performance. Similar and different institutions are automatically generated based on the results of their institutional community engagement heatmap results. The method used is applying Euclidean distance between institutions to provide the similar and differing institutions, which calculates the distance in an n-dimensional space between two cases.

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