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Cross-disciplinary initiatives

With a more interdisciplinary and transversal approach than the master plans, the University of Girona has developed a number of strategic initiatives that also seek to define the University's work objectives.

These cross-disciplinary initiatives range from sectoral campuses to work on the UN sustainable development objectives. And they are not limited to the University's own region; there is also a strategy of international alliances with European universities that sits within the ACROSS framework.

The Sectoral Campus Programme was created as part of a territorial specialisation and competitiveness project (PECT) entitled “Girona, Innovative Ecosystem”, a project co-financed by the EU's European Regional Development Fund within the framework of the 2014-2020 ERDF Operational Programme for Catalonia 2014-2020 and the Girona Provincial Council.

Within the framework of this PECT, the University of Girona is leading an operation entitled “Structuring and dynamisation of strategic sectoral innovative ecosystems in the province of Girona”. It consists of structuring a territorial innovation system in the Girona area through the creation, revitalisation and consolidation of sectoral innovation ecosystems in the province's strategic areas. These ecosystems revolve around the Sectoral Campus.

The University of Girona's ten sectoral campuses are a space of convergence linking the University with companies, institutions, clusters and local organisations in fields such as water, tourism, social cohesion and commitment, cultural and corporate communication, food and gastronomy, composite materials, health, cultural and natural heritage, industrial innovation and technology, and robotics.

The 2030 Agenda is a global challenge formulated by the UN member states. It sets out 17 sustainable development goals, including 169 targets aimed at achieving decent, fair and sustainable living conditions for people and for the planet. This means that the concept of sustainable development applies equally to social, environmental and economic aspects. 

The 2030 Agenda has had the good fortune to become a shared language, and at the same time it has enabled both individuals and institutions to reflect on what their contribution to this call to action should be, and how it fits in with their objectives, missions and roles. This process therefore represents both a local and a global challenge; it is an appeal to individuals, and also to the community.

Social Engagement Unit’s areas

SHEFCE (Steering Higher Education for Community Engagement) is a European Erasmus+ project institutionally promoted and linked to the UdG2030 strategic plan: the sum of intelligences. It aims to advance all universities in terms of community engagement, understood as a set of agreements established between university and non-university stakeholders in pursuit of shared objectives that benefit both parties. The first phase of the project consisted of an analysis of different dimensions of community engagement at the UdG: teaching, research, transfer, student initiatives and university management. The second stage involved drawing up an action plan to improve the UdG's community engagement.

The SHEFCE project has two additional goals:

  1. To prepare a series of recommendations for fostering the community engagement in each of the consortium’s countries (Catalonia, Croatia, Ireland, Belgium and Austria) as well as recommendations at the European level which will be presented before the key European players and organisations.
  2. To open an online platform for concentrating the results of the TEFCE self-assessment tool on university community engagement and good practices for universities in European and the rest of the world.

ACROSS – The European University for crossborder knowledge sharing - is the name given to the consortium formed by ten universities, from nine different countries, in response to the European approach of creating alliances of universities that have an integrated teaching strategy, with close links to research and social innovation and that act as a single inter-university campus that offers students, as well as the PAS and the PDI, the possibility of mobility at all levels of study. Alliances that also generate European knowledge creation teams that take a multidisciplinary approach to tackling social challenges together.

The universities within the ACROSS consortium are all located in medium-sized cities close to state borders. Thus, cross-border challenges form the shared cross-disciplinary theme of the partnership, which more specifically will focus on education in cross-border contexts; culture, language, identity and heritage; economic and social development and regulatory frameworks; management of natural resources in the face of global change (environment, energy, climate).

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