The Girona International Graduate School is the entity that promotes the masters and doctoral studies at the UdG as from the 2004-2005 academic year1. It was born with the role of adapting these studies to the European Area of Higher Education (EAHE) and of giving them an international dimension through directly attracting students from all over the world and transnational co-operation.
In this way, it aims to consolidate Girona as a reference centre in advanced studies, consolidating the comparative advantages of the UdG in different areas of knowledge, as well as in the optimum conditions of the surroundings, life and study that we offer to our postgraduate students.
Both challenges, the adaptation to Europe and international competitiveness, involve applying new academic criteria and guidelines to ensure quality. It is a process of substantial change that the UdG has started during a preparatory phase prior to the creation of the GIGS2. In this way, the masters programmes for the 2004-2005 academic year already respond, in terms of what is most fundamental and important for you, to the requirements of the EAHE for masters.
The name masters will thus become a protected name at the UdG, insofar as it will only be used, from now on, to designate programmes with the academic body that this qualification implies today in Europe, in the criteria of the Postgraduate Commission of the UdG.
The designations postgraduate programme and postgraduate course will be maintained for courses with a lesser academic workload and duration, which will still preserve their specific interest and which will continue to be offered by the UdG Foundation for Innovation and Training.
1. Agreement of the Governing Council of 6.5.2004, which created the Postgraduate School of the University of Girona.
2. Announcement of proposals for masters programmes of the UdG (Governing Council Agreement of 29.1.2004); participation in the pilot scheme for adaptation to EAHE 2004-2005 of the DURSI; participation in the announcement of Erasmus Mundus (EU) European Masters Courses project 2004-2005.