The University of Catalonia

Promotion of the University of Catalonia is the cross-cutting message of each chapter of the White Paper. The underlying philosophy is to break with the standard isolated and independent university model, and support a model of coordination that promotes the development of strategic alliances. This new approach will result in the improvement of each particular university’s functioning and of the system in general. First among the strategies contained in this section is the promotion of inter-university cooperation. The common international presence of the Catalan public universities is also being strengthened and Catalonia and Barcelona are being projected as ideal locations for postgraduate and doctoral training of an internationally competitive level.