A short summary of visit:
Important meetings with:
- Vice-rector international UCLM,
- Dean, school of engineering and airspace studies (around 1000 students)
- Vice-Dean, faculty of business management, law and social sciences (around 2000 students, hereof 600 business administration students, roughly 20-30 inbound mobility international students, mostly from other Spanish speaking countries)
Discussions about:
- Information about and inviting to a possible jointly application for European university alliance.
For more information, see:
https://europeanunialliance.eu/
https://education.ec.europa.eu/education-levels/higher-education/european-universities-initiative
https://education.ec.europa.eu/european-universities-factsheets? (NTNU, NHH and UiO are on the list)
- Extending bilateral agreement with faculty of business management, law and social sciences
See UCLM internal news about the meeting: https://twitter.com/uclm_inter/status/1641182653192740865?s=20
Actions in:
- Presentation of Østfold University College and CDIO case projects for an UCLM classes:
- A campus tour to faculty og business management, law and social sciences with updating relevant information for future student mobility to UCLM, Toledo campus.
- Courses for business management majors. See Course catalog including all English friendly courses.
Added meetings with colleagues at Talavera site/campus about their future master program in economy and informatics
General information about Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM)
World rank 625, country rank 21 (ref. UniRank): https://www.4icu.org/reviews/universities-english/4283.html
Compared with HIOF world rank 1206, country rank 6 (ref. UniRank): https://www.4icu.org/reviews/universities-urls/10076.shtm
ULCM is a non-profit public higher-education institution in Spain located in Castilla-La Mancha, high land/plateau countryside south of Madrid. The region is well known and made for tourism on the famous novel Don Quijote de la mancha, written by Miguel de Cervantes and published in 1605.
ULCM has 4 campuses: Albacete, Ciudad Real, Cuenca and Toledo, with two university sites at Talavera de la Reina (owns by Toledo) and Almaden (owns by Ciudad Real).
UCLM is a stable and long term HIOF partner regarding for inbound mobility senior bachelor or master engineering students. The collaboration started since 2006 initiated by UCLM vice-rector research since then there are 2-3, sometimes up to 8-10 UCLM engineering students take their Erasmus semester or two semesters at HIOF, study engineering, enrolled through student project majors combined with other majors.
The incoming students were selected and came from all 4 campuses during past 15 years.