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Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Academic Year 2003-2004 Annual Report The organic growth of the UOC is constant and sustained. In the 2003-2004 course, the number of enrolled students increased by 16%. Two milestones of this academic year also characterise a commitment to research – the new IN3 Building at the Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia, in Castelldefels (Barcelona), and the presentation and publication of the results of the first phase of the Catalonia Internet Project (Projecte Internet Catalunya, PIC). IN3 Building Within the sphere of internationalisation, the first edition of the international Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia Castelldefels seminar organised by the UNESCO Chair: Leading the University in the Knowledge Society, and the creation of a stable operational base in Mexico DF have marked the course of the academic year 2003-2004. Growth of the Recognised Degrees Offer at the Main Campus and at the Latin American Campus 18 17* 16* 16 14 13* 12** 12 10* 10** 10 9* 8* 8** 8 6* 6** 6 4* 4 2* 2 0 95-96 96-97 97-98 98-99 99-00 00-01 01-02 02-03 03-04 * Main Campus ** Latin American Campus Contents Evolution of the Number of UOC Students The UOC in Figures 2003-2004 5 Presentation 35000 Recognised Degrees, Main Campus 17 7 UOC 32,246 30000 Recognised Degrees, Latin American 7 Governing Bodies Campus 12 9 Organisational Structure Own Degrees 1 25000 12 Strategic Alliances Postgraduate Programmes 158 13 International Scope Students* 32,246 14 Business Initiatives: UOC Group 20000 UOC’s Teaching Staff 128 Tutors 1,174 17 Activity 15000 Counsellors 332 17 Training Subjects Offered* 1,584 17 - Introduction 10000 Graduates with Recognised Degrees 2,836 18 - “First Cycle Studies; First-and-Second Cycle Graduates with Master’s and Studies; Second Cycle Studies; Own Degrees” Postgraduate Degrees 2,197 24 - Doctoral Programme on the Information 5000 Diplomas in Advanced Studies 109 and Knowledge Society 200 Management Team 337 26 - Postgraduate Education 0 * Main Campus and Latin American Campus. 28 - Pre-university Training 95-96 96-97 97-98 98-99 99-00 00-01 01-02 02-03 03-04 29 - UOC Methodology 32 - The Virtual Library 34 University Life Budget 34 - Face-to-face Meetings Type Ordinary Investments 38 - Student Services and Care 2000 (1) 28,986,634.49 4,765,386.21 42 - The Club of Graduates and Friends of the UOC 2001 (1) 33,836,534.97 4,839,289.18 44 Research 2002 (1) 38,705,615.86 7,190,938.43 45 Knowledge Dissemination and Transfer 2003 (1) 40,900,382.75 9,407,455.37 48 Solidarity Co-operation 2004 (2) 42,158,761.90 6,244,790.53 49 Financial Report (1) Liquidated budgets, with amortisations (2) Approved budgets, without amortisations 55 Annexes · Activities Involving Social Dissemination “Catalonia possesses a consolidated university system and everybody is aware that the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya is one of its pillars and that it helps to make this system truly complete, because it provides it with an effective capacity for attending to the growing social expectation of an offer of quality distance higher education”. Carles Solà President of the Board of Trustees of the FUOC, Catalan Minister of Universities, Research, and the Information Society “The sphere of the social dissemination of knowledge also witnesses to our university identity. Lletra – the most prestigious area of Catalan literature on the Internet – is an example of how the resources and capacities generated at the university also come within the reach of society as a whole. This is our responsibility, and it is what we have done and will continue to do with Lletra and with the other initiatives of the UOC in the sphere of dissemination”. Gabriel Ferraté Rector of the UOC “... the UOC is a pretext and model of what cultural and organisational change can be in university institutions in an environment marked by the irruption of the information and communications technologies and the emergence of a new dynamic of innovation, creativity, competence, know-how, competition, and doing things better”. Josep Vilarasau President of the Advisory Council of the UOC Josep Vilarasau, Carles Solà and Gabriel Ferraté 4 Presentation For some years now Catalonia has The annual challenge of the Academic My introductory remarks to this 2003- possessed a solid university system, and Report provides a good occasion for 2004 Academic Report concern once this is excellent news for the whole country. reflection on what we have done and more the role of the Universitat Oberta It needs to be said, however, that this what still remains for us to do. Allow me de Catalunya as an international system would not be complete if it were to begin by expressing my satisfaction at reference-point. In this course the not for the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, the overall situation: the UOC is growing international seminar of the UOC’s whose existence allows an effective and this is due to all involved. UNESCO Chair was held for the first time response to the growing social demand for The organic growth of our University is - an event that represents a commitment an offer of distance higher education of constant and sustained. In the 2003- to co-operation and the interchange of outstanding quality. Nonetheless, we are not 2004 course, the number of enrolled experience with academics and university face-to-face with a novelty: the UOC has students increased by 16%. This fact management from all around the world. been fulfilling this requirement to a highly demonstrates two things: on the one Under the motto Leading the University satisfactory degree over the last ten years. hand, that the kind of university that this in the Knowledge Society, this seminar The UOC’s most recent commitment is to is fits in well with what society requires brought together thirty-one Rectors and the sphere of research, and here it still of us, and on the other, that the Vice Rectors from ten countries and has a long way to go. It is obvious that academic and management team of twenty-six different institutions that, from the academic identity of a university – its the University is working well in offering Barcelona and with the UOC as a pretext prestige, its international projection, its a product of the quality expected of us. and model of cultural and organisational productivity within the framework of the One of the objectives of this effort and change, shared the challenges that society that it belongs to – must one of the reasons for this success is university institutions have to confront in necessarily arise from research, as well as the increase in the educational offer: the an environment marked by the irruption from teaching and the dissemination of training programmes of the UOC are of the information and communications knowledge throughout society. The continuing to increase, and at present technologies and the emergence of a research carried out by a university often there are seventeen recognised degree new dynamic of innovation, creativity, determines the quality of its teaching and courses – twelve of which are also given competence, know-how, competition, the use of the knowledge and products on the Latin American campus – offered and doing things better. that it transfers to society. In this sphere, by the University, as well as one own Far from centring its discourse and too, the UOC has been able to establish degree course and more that a hundred debating sessions on a merely tactical a characteristic profile of its own. Master’s and Postgraduate courses. Thus or instrumental vision of ICTs applied Two achievements in the 2003-2004 increase in the educational offer is one of to the university training and learning course show very clearly that research at our duties as a University, and even more process, this international gathering made the UOC is going in the right direction. On so as we are still such a young university. a strategic proposal for the introduction the one hand, the IN3 already possesses It is worth stressing this growth, which is of e-learning into universities as an an appropriate and modern area on the expressive of the consolidation of the opportunity for setting in motion a Campus Mediterrani de la Tecnologia in UOC, and it is worthwhile to continue on process of institutional change toward Castelldefels, Barcelona. On the other, this same pathway. organisational, academic, and the Catalonia Internet Project (Projecte I would underline the importance management models definitively centred Internet Catalunya, PIC) has come to the of the launching in this last course of East on the student: the client. Such a change end of its first phase with the presentation Asian Studies, which lead to a Bachelor’s would result in a capacity to respond in and publication of its results. degree and a Master’s, of the first both a timely and efficacious way to the The PIC opens up a debate about international Master’s degree in Free expectation of leadership that the worlds the historical process of transition and Software, and of the international of economics, culture and science transformation that has taken us from the Master’s degree in E-learning. entertain of the universities that are going industrialised to the network society, and to be the element galvanising the about how this process is expressed The sphere of the social dissemination transition from the society of the twentieth and made concrete in the case of Catalan of knowledge also witnesses to our century to the knowledge and information society. Consequently, it is more a university identity.