Contents Activity Training Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 40 First Cycle Studies; First-and-Second Cycle Studies; Second Cycle Studies; Own Degrees ......................................................................................... 43 General Data ...................................................................................................................................... 43 Faculty of Economics and Business Studies ...................................................................... 44 Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences ............................................................ 47 Faculty of Law and Political Science ...................................................................................... 49 Faculty of Humanities and Language and Literature ....................................................... 51 Faculty of Computer Science and Multimedia ................................................................... 53 Faculty of Information and Communications Sciences .................................................. 56 Third Cycle Studies ............................................................................................................................. 58 Doctoral Programme ...................................................................................................................... 58 Postgraduate Education .................................................................................................................... 62 Postgraduate Studies .................................................................................................................... 62 Universitat Oberta d’Estiu (Summer Open University) .................................................... 63 Universidad Virtual de Verano (Virtual Summer University) ........................................... 64 Pre-university Training ........................................................................................................................ 65 Access Course for People over 25 Years of Age .............................................................. 65 High Specialist Programme ......................................................................................................... 66 Access course to higher degree courses for persons over 20 years of age ........ 66 Higher training courses for professionals ............................................................................. 66 Methodology UOC ............................................................................................................................... 67 Learning Materials ........................................................................................................................... 67 Virtual Campus .................................................................................................................................. 68 Face-to-face meetings .................................................................................................................. 69 Institutional Evaluation ................................................................................................................... 75 The Virtual Library ................................................................................................................................ 78 Student Services and Care .............................................................................................................. 81 Student Care ...................................................................................................................................... 81 Virtual Secretary’s Office ............................................................................................................... 82 Campus Accessibility ..................................................................................................................... 82 Labour Exchange ............................................................................................................................. 83 UOC Associations ........................................................................................................................... 84 Sports Promotion ............................................................................................................................. 85 Virtual Consumers’ Network ....................................................................................................... 86 Access Networks ............................................................................................................................. 87 The UOC Centres ............................................................................................................................ 88 UOC Club ................................................................................................................................................ 92 Community galvanisation ............................................................................................................. 94 Advantages ......................................................................................................................................... 95 Research Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 96 The spheres of research .................................................................................................................. 97 Projects ..................................................................................................................................................... 98 Projects Evaluated ............................................................................................................................... 100 Other Projects ........................................................................................................................................ 102 Research Chairs .................................................................................................................................... 102 Applied Research and Innovation ................................................................................................. 103 Projects Involving Transfer of Technology and Knowledge ............................................... 104 Research: Some Figures ................................................................................................................... 106 Annual Report Academic Year 2002-2003 © Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Dissemination and transfer of knowledge and technology Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 107 The UOC on the Internet ................................................................................................................... 108 Territorial Activities and Dissemination ....................................................................................... 110 Publishing Activity ................................................................................................................................ 117 Services for Institutions and Enterprise ..................................................................................... 117 Training for Enterprise ........................................................................................................................ 119 Attention to the Public ....................................................................................................................... 120 Solidarity Co-operation Campus for Peace ............................................................................................................................... 121 Annual Report Academic Year 2002-2003 © Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Activity This year for the first time all new application form from the external students have completed a fully website, and they enjoyed almost Training virtual incorporation process. Thus, immediate access to the Virtual all students who started their Campus many days before the Introduction degrees this academic year matriculation period. completed the formalities of their Improvements in the design In accordance with the study of the –Launch of the Diary as a new and structure of the Campus facility of use which has been carried Virtual Campus functionality. out, a new design of the Campus has The Diary is a tool which enables been elaborated and a new to enter appointments and organisation of the information and contacts, and in addition, it offers navigation, which improve its facility the possibility of integrating into it and efficiency at the time of use. in an automated way informations All of which has led to a design of an academic and institutional which gives priority to the correct type. Finally, the incorporation of visualisation of the information, a this diary enables the user to have more coherent structure of the a tool for the planning of work information, and a more transparent during the semester. navigation system. –The new version of the Campus. –New Homepage. The new Virtual It incorporates a number of Campus homepage shows the changes to the personal mailbox main novelties and news generated with the objective of improving its by the academic activity and, in use. Among the improvements, addition, it