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UdG XXI: the University of Girona’s educational model

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UdG XXI Model

UdG XXI Model

The goal of the model is to define the university’s own educational model, which makes the UdG unique and responds to the new challenges and social changes anticipated in the sphere of learning in our society.This has to describe which type of learning we want to promote and which conditions are needed to make it possible, as well as the necessary support to implement it and to improve it in a continuous process of review.

The rollout plan for the model consists of 21 goals grouped into the following 8 areas.

State of execution rollout plan for the model

  • 20%Overall execution of the plan
  • 21Objectives
  • 74Initiatives in progress
  • 14Initiatives completed

Person responsible:
Vice-President for Staff and Academic Planning
Date of closing:
21-07-2025
Closing:
Very satisfactory achievement
Description:
To educate students in an ever more complex world, it is essential to ensure they have a variety of learning opportunities in context that allow them to develop essential skills.The University of Girona must provide experiences that promote critical thinking, social engagement and sustainability, inclusion and teamwork, taking into account the gender perspective, and students’ diverse backgrounds and opportunities.This process cannot be based on a standard student educational model but on personalised development through rich life experiences, while adapting and periodically revising skills in line with the evolution of the world and society.
Appraisal:
The Governing Council, in session 4/2025, of 24 April, approved the ‘Dimensions of transferable competences in bachelor's degree studies, master's degrees, ongoing education, and doctoral studies at the UdG.’
ACC0018486
Analyse the current general competences
100%
ACC0018493
Draw up a document with the general competences for bachelor's, master’s and doctoral degree studies, as well as ongoing education
100%
ACC0018499
Submit the proposed agreement to the Council of Deans and to the Authorised Committee of Teachers and Students for approval
100%
ACC0021510
Governing Council approval
100%

Person responsible:
Delegate for Teaching Model UdGXXI
Planned date:
31/07/2026
Execution:
28%
Description:
The UdG XXI Model must provide students with a meaningful learning experience, promoting both rigour and depth, as well as offering integrating proposals that promote the transversality and personalisation of learning, links with the local area, and social engagement.The working groups that took part in drawing up the UdG XXI Model, as well as projects like SHEFCE (Steering Higher Education for Community Engagement), already put forward some proposals along those lines.Out of all those, there are some that should be included in the studies’ reports, as they are part of formal learning.
ACC0019042
Identify activities and actions that differentiate learning in the UdG XXI Model
100%
ACC0019044
Draw up plans for collaborating with public administrations and third-sector organisations on bachelor's and master’s theses based on real challenges (pilot test)
40%
ACC0019046
Define a plan of actions that will ensure all students can have an internationalisation experience
0%
ACC0019048
Analyse needs and possibilities for including dual education and training in bachelor’s and master's degree studies
20%
ACC0019050
Define a plan of actions that will ensure all students can have a community and social engagement experience
30%
ACC0019052
Elaborating a document that collects the singular actions of the Model UdG XXI
0%
ACC0019054
Identifying the singular activities that can be part of the curricula
40%
ACC0019056
Elaborating the pertinent proposals of agreement for the competent organs
0%

Person responsible:
Delegate for Teaching Model UdGXXI
Planned date:
18-12-2026
Execution:
0%
Description:
In a world in constant evolution, the learning has to be a process flexible, capable of personalising according to the needs and interests of each student, while it obeys to the social, technological and environmental demands of our time.As objective nail, Model UdG XXI proposes allowing that the estudiantat can describe formative pathways that fit to its needs and to projects of life.To carry out this objective, the University of Girona will have to explore different strategies, some of which it would be the analysis of possible sinèrgies among the current studies, that it will allow us to describe some proposals of open bachelor's degree.On the other hand, out of the singular activities that are identified to objective 2, there can be that they can be part of a general formative offer for all the estudiantat, promoting the customisation of the learning.
ACC0019059
Analysing possible sinèrgies among the current studies which they allow to define an open bachelor's degree
0%
ACC0019061
Elaborating a proposal of open bachelor's degree
0%
ACC0019063
Elaborating the proposals of approval of bachelor's degree opened by the suitable organs
0%
ACC0019065
Draw up a complementary education plan with campus subjects
0%

Person responsible:
Delegate for Teaching Model UdGXXI
Planned date:
18-12-2026
Execution:
15%
Description:
Today’s society, characterised by volatility and uncertainty, calls for a new educational paradigm.We are in the face of a reality in which the traditional profession vanishes and the work stability is every time less guaranteed.In the face of this situation, the persons will have to adapt themselves constantly, acquiring new learnings and updating along the life.On the other hand, and highlighting the changes without precedents of the 21st century with respect to the ageing of the population, the silver generation, or that acquaintance as baby boomers, they are arriving at the age of the retirement with a health optimum and with desires to continue developing and learning new knowledge and competences.The University of Girona can play a key role in the change of perspective towards the ageing that these facts generate, offering an education of quality for this generation that has the great luck of being able to learn for pleasure.The benefits of these changes will not limit themselves only to the biggest population, but they can have a transforming effect about the current conceptions of the learning, reconsidering it as a form of personal enrichment, beyond the purely instrumental approaches that can impoverish the education and question its sense.
ACC0019068
Elaborating a plan of micro-accreditations development
20%
ACC0019070
Elaborating the guidelines for the elaboration and approval of micro-accreditations
20%
ACC0019072
Identifying educations of micro-accreditations according to our expertises
35%
ACC0019074
Identifying needs of the productive sector of the territory
20%
ACC0019076
Increase the options for continuous, specialised and specific education and training in response to local and regional needs
0%
ACC0019078
Developing a plan of education for biggest of 5
0%

Person responsible:
Delegate for Teaching Model UdGXXI
Planned date:
18-12-2026
Execution:
22%
Description:
The Model UdG XXI has as an objective to foster a learning integral and of value for the estudiantat.To make it possible, a study of the typologies of activities and methodologies more suitable to the deep, slow and cross-disciplinary learning that we wish, taking the dimensions of cross-disciplinary competences that have been defined into account, is necessary.The project SHEFCE already proposes to promote the incorporation of the learning-service, the problem-based learning, the learning for projects, or the learning for challenges as a methodology of learning.
ACC0019093
Analysing and describing the typologies of current educational activities of the UdG
100%
ACC0019095
Identifying typologies of activities and methodologies that fit to the Model UdG XXI
10%
ACC0019097
Draw up a document with methodological criteria and psycho-pedagogical guidelines
0%
ACC0019099
Elaborating the pertinent proposals of agreement for the competent organs
0%
ACC0019101
Redesigning the descriptors (the cards) of the subjects
0%

Person responsible:
Delegate for Teaching Model UdGXXI
Planned date:
18-12-2026
Execution:
0%
Description:
The University of Girona has developed a Training Plan that includes specific training for new members of the teaching staff and an offer of ongoing education and training for the current teaching staff.The training is designed to offer ongoing support that takes technological, social and methodological changes into account.As example, the educations can inform, resources and educational tools of the university, about the structures offering the university strategies and educational resources to give classes, and introducing the active educational methodologies that are used and are prioritised at university.The Training Plan will have to be constantly revised to keep it in line with the UdG XXI Model objectives.
ACC0019250
Revising the correlation between the plan of valid UdG education and the methodologies and typologies of educational priority activities of the Model UdG XXI
0%
ACC0019255
Establishing the coordinating mechanisms to guarantee the cohesion between the pluriannual plan of UdG education and Model UdG XXI
0%
ACC0019261
Establishing a calendarització of revisions for keeping the education lined up with the updates of the Model UdG XXI
0%
ACC0019264
Identifying the necessary mechanisms to encourage in the initial and continued education of the teaching staff in the priority methodologies
0%
ACC0019267
Defining policies of grant and support to promote priority activities of the Model UdG XXI
0%

Person responsible:
Delegate for Teaching Model UdGXXI
Planned date:
18-12-2026
Execution:
0%
Description:
The definition of criteria and coherent methodologies of evaluation with the learning and the typologies of activities coherent and lined up with the Model UdG XXI is essential to insure that the processes and activities of evaluation reflect faithfully the formative objectives of this new educational model.The system of evaluation has to measure the results of learning, of both cross-disciplinary knowledge as development of competences how the critical thought, the work in team, the sustainability or the perspective of gender, central values of the Model UdG XXI.The alignment among the formative activities and the criteria and methodologies of evaluation has to allow the deep and rigorous learning that promotes the model.
ACC0019274
Elaborating a report about the most coherent evaluations with the Model UdG XXI
0%
ACC0019278
Revising the regulations of current evaluation
0%
ACC0019281
Elaborating some regulations of evaluation lined up with the Model UdG XXI
0%
ACC0019284
Elaborating the proposals of approval for the competent organs
0%

Person responsible:
Delegate for Teaching Model UdGXXI
Planned date:
18-12-2026
Execution:
20%
Description:
With this objective, we seek to establish a clear and equitable regulatory framework that regulates teachers’ dedication, adapting it to the specific needs of each teacher and to institutional requirements, while ensuring quality teaching and sustainable workloads.Establish precisely what constitutes a standard class hour within the framework of teaching activities, taking into account their specifics and characteristics. This will serve as a basis for standardising and ensuring coherent management of the time dedicated to teaching, while balancing teachers’ workloads and ensuring a fair and sustainable distribution of teaching responsibilities.
ACC0019288
Analysing the legislation and regulations about the educational dedication of the teaching staff to the public university
100%
ACC0019290
Analysing the regulations and regulation of the educational dedication of other public state universities
0%
ACC0019292
Define a class hour and determine the relationship between teaching assignment, class hours and the hours dedicated to teaching
0%
ACC0019294
Elaborating some regulations of educational dedication in accordance with the Model UdG XXI and the LOSU
0%
ACC0019296
Elaborating a proposal of approval for the competent organs
0%

Person responsible:
Vice-President for Staff and Academic Planning
Planned date:
31-03-2026
Execution:
46%
Description:
The establishment of common hourly units has to allow a fluid and organised interaction among different centres and degrees, facilitating the joint programming and the accounting of the formative offer among the different teaching institutions, as well as the organisation of a cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary offer, shared activities, and the access to formative offers of other degrees without conflicts of timetable.
ACC0019301
Analysing the hourly programming of basic subjects of different studies
100%
ACC0019303
Elaborating a proposal of a basic unit of credits for subjects
20%
ACC0019305
Elaborating a proposal of school times by uniform credit in all the UdG
0%
ACC0019308
Elaborating a proposal of timetables with elements common to all faculties and school of the UdG
100%
ACC0019310
Elaborating the proposals of approval for the competent organs
50%

Person responsible:
Vice-President for Staff and Academic Planning
Planned date:
30-11-2025
Execution:
70%
Description:
An hourly rationalisation that facilitates the conditions that favour the deep learning which is wanted to be promoted is necessary, as well as the conciliation between the formative offer of the faculties and school teachers, the shared use of the classrooms and the laboratories, and the programming of joint curricula.This objective is also shared by the SHEFCE project.
ACC0019317
Analysing the educational calendars of the faculties and school
100%
ACC0019319
Elaborating a proposal of unified academic calendar
100%
ACC0019321
Elaborating the proposal of agreement of the guidelines for the elaboration of calendar and educational timetables of the bachelor's degree studies and master for the pertinent organs
100%
ACC0020281
To monitor and analyse the difficulties in the implementation of calendars and approved timetables
20%

Person responsible:
Delegate for Teaching Model UdGXXI
Planned date:
18-12-2026
Execution:
26%
Description:
The elaboration of a guide for the elaboration of studies memories is fundamental to guarantee the coherence of the formative plans in the Model UdG XXI.This guide has to collect the key issues that they ensure an alignment among the academic programmes and the principles of the model, as the educational methodologies (actions of objective 5), the results of learning coming from the cross-disciplinary competences and the inclusion of singular activities (actions of objective 6).Having a document of reference will facilitate the planning and the revision of the studies, assuring that each degree integrates methodologies of active learning, fosters the interdisciplinarity and favours an education connected with the social and professional reality.The guide will thus become a strategic tool for consolidating the new educational model and ensuring it is implemented in a similar, quality fashion throughout the university.
ACC0019324
Elaborating a guide for the definition of results of learning related with the dimensions of cross-disciplinary competences
100%
ACC0019326
Elaborating a guide for the implementation and follow-up of the results of learning
5%
ACC0019328
Determining the key points that a studies report has to have to comply with the Model UdG XXI
0%
ACC0019330
Elaborating the guide for the UdG elaboration of studies memories
0%

Person responsible:
Delegate for Teaching Model UdGXXI
Planned date:
18-12-2026
Execution:
0%
Description:
A tutorial action plan is an essential tool for giving university students support and guidance to help them achieve their objectives and grow both personally and academically.The analysis of the Action Plans Tutorial (PAT) current it has to allow to identify common elements and to establish criteria for some good practicals of tutorial action.From this analysis, a proposal of coherent PAT with the good valid practicals and lined up with the Model UdG XXI has to be defined.It will also be necessary to evaluate the costs of implementation to guarantee the economic feasibility and the approval for the competent organs.
ACC0019333
Elaborating a report of the current tutorial Action Plans
0%
ACC0019335
Elaborating a proposal of Action Plan tutorial lined up with the Model UdG XXI
0%
ACC0019337
Analysing the costs of implementation of the proposed Plans
0%
ACC0019339
Elaborating the proposal of approval for the competent organs
0%

Person responsible:
Delegate for Teaching Model UdGXXI
Planned date:
18-12-2026
Execution:
1%
Description:
The programme of academic management will have to allow, among others, to define educational typologies/activities in the course plan, distinguishing between school and no school and has to be able to relate teaching staff, timetables and spaces.
ACC0019342
Describing the characteristics necessary of a Programme of Academic Management (PGA)
5%
ACC0019344
Bidding for a PGA that satisfies the necessary characteristics
0%
ACC0019346
Implementing the PGA
0%

Person responsible:
Vice-President for Students
Planned date:
31/07/2026
Execution:
31%
Description:
To promote the participation of the estudiantat in all the areas of the university life is essential to guarantee an active, diverse and compromised educational community.When does the estudiantat become active part of the decision making and of the institutional dynamics, not only do contribute to improving the quality of the services and the university policies, but also do acquire cross-disciplinary competences as the critical thought, the work in team and the leadership.This participation favours a more democratic and inclusive university, capable of forming responsible citizens, with social commitment and preparations to face the social and professional challenges of the future.
ACC0019795
Creating a service/unit of community dynamisation
90%
ACC0019801
Analysing the current state of the student participation of the UdG
50%
ACC0019804
Analysing other models of promotion plan of the student participation
50%
ACC0019807
Elaborating a plan of promotion of the student participation of the UdG
0%
ACC0019809
Elaborating a plan of education for the student representation in government organs
0%
ACC0019813
Elaborating proposals of agreement of the plans of promotion of the student participation and of education for the suitable organs
0%

Person responsible:
Vice-President for Students
Planned date:
31/07/2026
Execution:
2%
Description:
This objective watches over a culture of ownership and community through the associationism.The associative movement have an important presence at the University of Girona, and represent a key piece to promote initiatives connected with the territory and to foster the participation of the members of the university community in cultural, ludic, social, professional activities and of others.An analysis of the current activities will allow to detect needs with respect to the current relations, the creation of new associations, and the educations in the area of the associationism.The elaboration of some regulations of associations lined up with the Model UdG XXI will guarantee that the initiatives in this area help to develop the promotion of a culture of ownership and community.
ACC0019832
Making an analysis of activity of the current UdG associations
10%
ACC0019834
Detecting needs
0%
ACC0019836
Elaborating a plan of education in the area of the associationism
0%
ACC0019838
Elaborating some regulations of associations lined up with the Model UdG XXI
0%
ACC0019840
Elaborating the proposal of approval agreement of the regulations for the suitable organs
0%

Person responsible:
Delegate for Teaching Model UdGXXI
Planned date:
18-12-2026
Execution:
0%
Description:
The university is not only a space of academic education, but also an environment of personal growth and social integration.Favouring the connection of the estudiantat with the university community and the territory contributes to its welfare, enrich its experience and foster a feeling of ownership.This facilitates not only its academic and professional development, but also its active implication in the society.For this motive, it is essential to promote initiatives that promote this linking and guarantee a full and significant university experience.
ACC0019843
Defining mechanisms for the organisation Conference of meetings company -entities – UdG
0%
ACC0019845
Designing a plan of actions of cultural dynamisation in the campus of the University and connected to the territory.
0%
ACC0019847
Designing a plan of cultural dynamisation actions in collaboration with the towns of the environment
0%

Person responsible:
Delegate for Teaching Model UdGXXI
Planned date:
18-12-2026
Execution:
0%
Description:
The definition of adaptation plans of the educational spaces is fundamental to ensure the coherence between the methodologies of learning and the new educational model who promotes a deep and long-lasting learning.Some well designed spaces, flexible, polyvalent and adapted to the needs of the active methodologies facilitate the educational collaboration, the creativity and the active participation of the estudiantat, promoting an experience, richer and connected with the challenges of the 21st century.This approach guarantees that the physical and pedagogic environment goes of the hand, reinforcing like this the formative and academic impact.
ACC0019850
Analysing the spaces of faculties and school, and its use
0%
ACC0019852
Detecting needs
0%
ACC0019854
Elaborating a plan of performances and feasibility
0%

Person responsible:
Delegate for Teaching Model UdGXXI
Planned date:
18-12-2026
Execution:
0%
Description:
The adaptation of campus spaces obeys to the need to maximise the efficient use of the resources and to foster the interdisciplinary collaboration within the framework of an integrating and innovative educational model.This adaptation, first, has to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and experiences among disciplines, fostering a cross-disciplinary and enriching learning.To share and to optimise the spaces allows to use common infrastructures and to guarantee a more equitable distribution of the resources among all faculties.Promote the sustainability, reducing the need to construct new spaces and promoting the rational use of the existing infrastructures.Thus, the campus become environments more integrated, dynamic and lined up with the values of an open and collaborative university.And because of that also an analysis of the implementation of a system of strikers between campus is indispensable.
ACC0019858
Elaborating a plan of adaptation and improvement of the campus with coherence of the Model UdG XXI
0%
ACC0019860
Analysing the uses of the individual and shared spaces of the faculties and the school
0%
ACC0019862
Describing some criteria of spaces uses individual and shared from the faculties and the school
0%
ACC0019864
Designing plans of shared spaces uses between the faculties and the school
0%

Person responsible:
Delegate for Teaching Model UdGXXI
Planned date:
31/07/2026
Execution:
0%
Description:
The University of Girona has approved the last years different strategic plans, as the strategic plan UdG 2030, the plan of Equality, the plan of Ambientalització or the project SHEFCE (that it has the objective of fostering the community commitment in the higher education).It is necessary that all these plans are lined up and coordinated with the strategy of the university and the Model UdG XXI.
ACC0019868
Revising the actions of strategic plan 2
0%
ACC0019870
Revising the actions of the plans of equality and of sustainability related with the education and the Model UdG XXI and to elaborate mechanisms to insure that him incloue
0%

Person responsible:
Delegate for Teaching Model UdGXXI
Planned date:
31-03-2026
Execution:
76%
Description:
It is essential we involve the entire community in the changes that the UdG XXI Model proposes.We will not advance if there is not the participation of everybody, and we have to manage because of that to implicate all the community.A plan of communication has to allow to make the objectives of the deployment visible and has to include actions of general communication as well as more concrete actions.
ACC0019875
Define a corporate image for the UdG XXI Model
100%
ACC0019878
Define an internal communication plan
70%

Person responsible:
Delegate for Teaching Model UdGXXI
Planned date:
18-12-2026
Execution:
0%
Description:
So much of the approval of the document has been made diffusion approved in university senate of Model UdG XXI as of its main objectives through articles in newspapers of national character (the Point Avui+, 10.12.2023) and regional (Newspaper of Girona, 11.01.24).We must continue this external dissemination, to inform the public about progress in developing the model.An external communication plan is needed to go with the internal one, to make people aware of the objectives behind rolling out the model and the most noteworthy actions involved in that.
ACC0019881
Identifying mechanisms of work with the territory across the chairs
0%
ACC0019883
Define an internal communication plan
0%

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