International mobility is a key element concerning university education in the 21st Century. The University of Oviedo, through the Campus of International Excellence, has developed different activities to promote mobility of teaching staff, students and university staff, promote double and joint degrees with foreign universities listed in the international rankings, work on the development of bilingual degrees and attract visiting professors.
Language training is one of the main projects of the Campus of International Excellence.
Subsidies for Excellence Mobility and visiting professors
The University of Oviedo has opened a call for subsidies aimed at professors of the Asturian academic institution staying at universities listed among the top 200 universities in the international rankings, and subsidies for professors coming from foreign universities to teach at the University of Oviedo for periods between one and three months. These programmes are very successful. In 2010, almost 500 professors, double than in 2008, stayed at foreign universities.
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Bilingual programme
Language training is one of the main projects of the Campus of International Excellence of the University of Oviedo. The project Ad Futurum has promoted the offer of subjects taught in English in undergraduate and graduate courses.
In 2010 The Faculty of Economics and Business and the Jovellanos Faculty of Commerce, Tourism and Social Sciences started a bilingual programme based on teaching in English. This initiative has meant an increase of 30% of subjects given in English, reaching a total of 190 subjects.
For the academic year 2011-2012 the University will offer 10 bilingual itineraries related to the degrees in Business Administration and Management, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Electronic and Automatic Engineering, Economics, Accounting and Finance, Commerce and Marketing, Tourism, Industrial Chemical Engineering and Software Engineering. Master's Degrees: 17 programmes will be bilingual (four of them will be given fully in English)
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- Offer of bilingual itineraries
- Studying English at the University of Oviedo
- Agreement with the Alliance Française
- Agreement with the British Council
- Agreement with the Instituto Cervantes
- Agreement with the Dante Alighieri Association
Professors´ language training
The University of Oviedo will offer training courses aimed at professors in charge of teaching subjects in English in the bilingual degrees in the 2011-2012 academic year.
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The University community improves its language skills
In addition, the Vice-Chancellor for Internationalization and Development Cooperation has opened new lines of collaboration with international institutions, which have turned the University of Oviedo into the official examination centre for: British Council ( IELTS Diploma (International English Language Testing System); Instituto Cervantes ( Spanish as a Foreign Language (DELE); Goethe-Institut (official German tests) and the Alliance Française (official diplomas of the French Ministry of Education DELF and DALF).
Project funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and the Government of the Principality of Asturias in the framework of the Campus of International Excellence