Coimbra Group

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Coimbra Group
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Established	1985
Members	39
Continent	Europe
Countries	mostly EU countries also Norway and Switzerland
Leader	Piero Tose, University of Siena, Italy
Address	119 Rue de Stassart 1050 Brussels Belgium
Acronym	CG
Homepage	http://www.coimbra-group.be

Founded in 1985 and formally constituted by charter in 1987, the Coimbra Group is a network of European universities that gathers 39 of the oldest and most prestigious universities on the continent.

The group took its name from the city of Coimbra, Portugal and the university located there, itself one of the oldest in Europe. Coincidentally, the University of Coimbra celebrated its 700th anniversary in the same year the group was founded.

Contents 1 Mission 2 Members 3 See also 4 External link

Mission

Quote from the Coimbra Group website (see below for link):

Founded in 1985 and formally constituted by Charter in 1987, the Coimbra Group is an association of long-established European multidisciplinary universities of high international standard committed to creating special academic and cultural ties in order to promote, for the benefit of its members, internationalisation, academic collaboration, excellence in learning and research, and service to society. It is also the purpose of the Group to influence European educational policy and to develop best practice through the mutual exchange of experience.

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Members

Austria

• University of Graz

Belgium

• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Dutch-speaking) *
• Université catholique de Louvain (French-speaking)

Czech Republic

• Charles University of Prague

Denmark

• University of Aarhus

Estonia

• University of Tartu

Finland

• Åbo Akademi University
• University of Turku

France

• University of Lyon
• University of Montpellier (Montpellier is treated as 3 institutions)
• University of Poitiers

Germany

• University of Göttingen
• University of Heidelberg *
• University of Jena
• University of Würzburg

Greece

• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Hungary

• University of Budapest

Ireland

• National University of Ireland, Galway
• Trinity College, Dublin

Italy

• University of Bologna
• University of Padova
• University of Pavia
• University of Siena

The Netherlands

• University of Groningen
• University of Leiden *

Norway

• University of Bergen

Poland

• Jagiellonian University

Portugal

• University of Coimbra

Spain

• University of Barcelona
• University of Granada
• University of Salamanca

Sweden

• University of Uppsala

Switzerland

• University of Geneva *

United Kingdom

• University of Bristol
• University of Cambridge *
• University of Edinburgh *
• University of Oxford *

The 7 universities marked with an * are also members of the LERU (League of European Research Universities).

See also

• Ivy League (a group comprising some prestigious U.S. universities)
• Five Colleges of Ohio, a similar network in the state of Ohio.
• Russell Group (leading UK universities)
• List of colleges and universities by country

External link

• Coimbra Group official site

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Aarhus | Barcelona | Bergen | Bologna | Bristol | Budapest | Cambridge | Coimbra | Dublin | Edinburgh | Galway | Geneva | Göttingen | Granada | Graz | Groningen | Heidelberg | Jena | Kraków | Leiden | Leuven | Louvain-la-Neuve | Lyon | Montpellier | Oxford | Padua | Pavia | Poitiers | Prague | Salamanca | Siena | Tartu | Thessaloniki | Turku I | Turku II | Uppsala | Würzburg

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