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Statistics onUniversia Universia Projects

What is Universia and its target markets

A report on Spain and international participation

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Universia

What is Universia and its target markets

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Our mission is to offer the Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese University

Community the optimum mix of content and services so as to facilitate the

creation of a common forum for higher learning through training, culture,

research, and collaboration with the business world in order to contribute to

the sustainable development of these societies

Universia is a Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese network which

promotes and facilitates the integration and development of university

members in the Knowledge and Information Society as well as in the

Telecommunications sector.

Who are we?

What is our mission?

Universia: a unique project

01. Description of the initiativeUNIVERSIA

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Universia

Statistics onUniversia

What is it and its service targets

A report on Spain and international participation

The Universia network is the largest network of university

cooperation in the world. The network consists of 985 participating

universities, which represent 9,320,000 students (approximately 87%

are university level). 51% of the participating universities are public

while the remaining 49% are private.

The network represents Latin America, Spain and Portugal through

the participation of 11 different countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile,

Colombia, Spain, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela

The University Dimension


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Spain

Universia is made up of 74 Spanish universities which represent 1.5 million students (100% of the universities in Spain), la Conferencia de Rectores de las Universidades - CRUE (Association of Deans and Chancellors of Spanish Universities) and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas - CSIC (Executive Council for Research).

Portugal

Universia is made up of 19 Portuguese universities which

represent 193,000 estudiantes (100% of Portuguese

universities).

Universia in Spain and Portugal


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Universia is made up of 792 universities and institutions

of higher learning which represent 7,730.000 students

(aproximately 84% of the university sectors of

participating countries).

Universia in Latin America


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9.320.000

85,000

482,000

1,240.000

750,000

180,000

513.00

1,725.000

423.000

2,218.000

114,000

1,590.000

Number of students represented

Year 2005

100%

97%

92%

93%

99%

74%

86%

97%

69%

97%

100%

%

985Total

5Uruguay

65Peru

70Argentina

43Venezuela

15Puerto Rico

3Colombia

359Mexico

56Chile

220Brazil

19Portugal

74Spain

UNIVERSIACountry

Número de universidades por paísesUniversia in Latin America – country by country overview


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Universia Projects

online and offline

Universia develops projects both online and offline


OnlineProjects

OfflineProjects

Value - added services

Knowledge Society

University -Business

Universia Portal

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Universia Projects

online and offline

Online Projects

www.universia.es

The Universia information portal is the largest of its kind offering content and

services via new technology platforms to the following segments:

Online Projects - Universia as an information portal

04. UNIVERSIA

• University Deans: News and programs from other universities.

• Professors: Resource Library, educational material, web page for professors.

• Students: (pre-universitary, universitary and graduate levels): information on universities, scholarships, exchange programs, Placement / Job Search Portal • Business Sector: Job Search Portal.

An overview of projects developed by Universia

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Universia has won 28 awards for best educational portal

which include:

IBEST Award (awarded three years in a row). Brazil

COM Award (awarded four years in a row). Venezuela

National Journalism Award of Venezuela (Premio Nacional de

Periodismo de Venezuela)

Yahoo México Award and Yahoo Ibero-America Award

Gold Medal from the Universidad de Sevilla - Spain

The Order of Rafael Belloso (Orden Rafael Belloso). Venezuela

Sector Recognition: 28 awards for best education portal

educational portal portal

04. UNIVERSIAAn overview of projects developed by Universia

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Universia portal usage increases at a continuous annual rate

04. UNIVERSIA

Universia has 3.7 million registered users in all portals and registers

an average of almost four million individual users per month.

Since June 2004 180,000 users have been registered (11,000 new

users are registered each month). This represents 1 billion pages of

information seen by users per year.

UNIVERSIA has increased the number of individual users by more than 30%

per year.


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The challenge of finding your first job upon graduation from college

04. UNIVERSIA

Universia attends 30 university job fairs each year and its stand is

visited by an average of 32,000 students and in this way helps

17,200 students per year to find their first job.

Each year 300,000 students receive the Universia Employment

Magazine while 250,000 students get the Universia Guide to

Universities which form part of the Universia consortium


www.universia.es

Universia offers 33 content and service sites which are available to all users.

Front page

News HighlightsWe recommend...Most visited sitesCalendar of eventsCourses

Entertainment

FunVersion

Whatever happened to..?

Athenea / Portàtic

Shopping

User Groups

Preuniversitary studentsUniversity studentsProfessorsAdministrationAlumniComUniversia

General Info

UniversitiesNewsCalendar of EventsStudiesLibrariesLibrary Resources

Internacional

EuropeSpainU.S.A.LAC, Spain, PortugalEuropean Environment

Partners

ForumWhartonM.I.T.Science/Next WaveBusiness Review

Portals

CoursesScholarshipsEmploymentPublic Sector JobsCerticap

Channels

ResearchUniv. Management WomenTechnologySolidarityCulture

A full range of content services

04. UNIVERSIAAn overview of projects developed by Universia

An example of successful content: International / U.S.A.

04. An overview of projects developed by UniversiaUNIVERSIA

This portal offers:

• A Guide which provides a general overview on life in the U.S. and U.S. society.

• Profiles on 117 U.S. Universities which participate in a consortium with Spanish speaking universities .

• Educational system, scholarships and information on partnerships between Spanish and U.S. Universities

• Undergraduate and graduate degrees available.

http://internacional.universia.net/eeuu/index.htm

The portal on study in the U.S. is one of the most visited. The aim of this

service is to help university students who want to continue their studies or do

graduate study in the U.S.

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The Universia Business Review

04. Agreements and partnershipsUNIVERSIA

An economic magazine which is sponsored by IBM and is distributed quarterly with the Spanish economic monthly “Actualidad Económica” (circulation 55.000) Universia Business Review acts as a “bridge” between academic-university and business communities in the understanding that both groups share a mutual interest in economic development and Business Management and that the flow of ideas and information should be in both directions.

In addition, this magazine serves as a platform for Spanish university professors and facilitates the publication of their research and articles. We anticipate the publication of “Universia Business Review” in Portuguese and are studying the possibility of transfering this format to other areas such as medicine, law, etc.

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MIT - Opencourseware

04. Agreements and PartnershipsUNIVERSIA

• Universia offers the following to participating university students: the possibility

of registering for 95 different MIT classes, the corresponding course material,

and other documents all in Spanish which are used by MIT professors in their

classes. All this material is available free of charge on the Universia web site.

• In 2005 ten Spanish and one Portuguese universities joined this project in

order to create a model which can be followed by any university that wishes to

publish and share educational material free of charge with other centers.

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Wharton Business School – Universia Knowledge@wharton

04. Agreements and PartnershipsUNIVERSIA

• Universia makes articles from the biweekly magazine Knowledge Wharton available to the university community in Spanish, English and Portuguese.

• Universia also publishes articles by professors from Spanish and Latin American Universities in an interview format.

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Universia Projects

online and offline

Offline Projects

Strategic Focus – three focal points of activity

04. Offline ProjectsUNIVERSIA

Specific areas of activity

Support of the knowledge society

University - Business Relations

Exchange Programs and Globalization

Knowledge - based Socialization

Application of new technologiesto teaching and management

Digital Gap Reduction

Focal points of Universia activity

Support Development of Knowledge Society

Projects

• Resource Library• OCW Consortium• Universia Courses

Development of the Knowledge-based Society

• Professors’ Web sites• Portal sharing• Technology rooms• ATHENEA professor

• • ATHENEA Programs• Campus WIFI• Access Program

04. UNIVERSIAAreas of activity for offline projects

Development of the Knowledge Society (Continued)


Example: Athenea Program (Spain)

ATHENEA is a joint iniciative – the first of its kind in the Spanish university

experience - Universianiversia is working together with the Consejo de Rectores de

Universidades Españolas (CRUE), Banco de Santander, as well as companies from

the information industry and various regional governments.

Its objective is to facilitate University students’ access to new technologies through

the sale of laptop computers with WIFI at a discount (€ 450-500) from the current

market price (€ 900-750). Special financing plans are also offered to students.

ATHENEA I -2004 ATHENEA II-2005

Number of requests for computers

Number of computers sold

Number of requests for computers

Number of computers sold

18,000 10,000 13,000 7,000

Sale Price per computer: € 400-450Brands involved in the project: Toshiba, Samsung, Acer and Lenovo



Example: UNIVERSIA Technology Rooms

This initiative offers free internet access to any

student, professor, researcher, or any employee

of a university

Currently there are 172 Universia technology

rooms (Spain and Latin America) with more than

4,300 computers installed with Internet access.

Photo of Universia technology room on the

Somosaguas Campus inaugurated in November 2005

No. Technology Rooms per university

1-4

Computers per classroom 25-50

Technical support 1-4 becarios

Coordination Assistant Dean of Technology



Country Year 2005

Spain 22

Portugal 45

Brazil 7

Chile 18

Mexico 29

Colombia 7

Puerto Rico 6

Venezuela 5

Argentina 17

Peru 16

Uruguay 0

Total 172

Total no. of computers

(average of 25 x room)

4.300

Technology rooms installed per country

Education

Employment

KnowledgeTransfer / Research


Developmentof University - Business Relations

Projects

• University Courses • CERTICAP• FORMAPYME• Corporative training

University – Business Relations

• Employment Portal• Employment magazine• Employment offline

• Portal sharing• ResearchPortal• Workshops R&D+R

Entrepreneurship

03. Areas of activity for offline projectsUNIVERSIA

Universia Empleo (Universia Placement and Internship Service) works together with a variety of

companies – Banco Santander, Coca-Cola, Ferrovial, Deloitte, Movilisto, Kiabi or Adidas – in the setting

up of internships and the placement of students in their first job post university.

In 2005 Universia helped 1,100 people per month get their first job experience.

In the 11 countries participating countries, Universia helps 17,200 students a year to find their first job.

University – Business Relations: Examples


The Management of Professional Internships



Job Placements Clients No. of Scholarships awarded

Coca-Cola 25

Movilisto 20

Kiabi 20

CMS 10

Dell 30

Ferrovial Inmobiliaria 25

Ferrovial Agromán 500

Deloitte 150

First Data 10

Adidas 15

Royal Bank of Scotland 15

Unión Fenosa 25

Grupo Santander 548

1393



050

100150200250300350400450

First EmploymentInternships First Employment: 352 students / month

Internships: 691 students / month

In Spain, 45 large companies are frequent users of Universia Empleo



Within the concept area of “Escuela Universia” (“Universia School”) a variety of events have been sponsored by companies and other institutions. The aim of these activities is to facilitate the development and exchange of opinions between universities and the business and institutional sectors.

In 2005 two forums were organized: “The Creation of Innovative Companies” (Madrid, Spain) and “The Evolution towards the e-University” (Dublin, Ireland).

56 Chancellors, Deans, and Assistants to the Dean attended the event in Dublin which included the participation of Universities from Spain, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Ireland as well as representatives from Grupo Santander and the Ministries of Education and Industry of Spain, France and Turkey.



www.universia.es

The Universia Empleo Magazine

Universia Empleo is published periodically to offer university students and

recent graduates a practical guide with information on how to get their first job.

80,000 magazines were distributed with an even larger circulation expected in

2006.



• “Bogotá, cómo vamos¨ (“Bogota, Moving Forward”) and ¨Educación compromiso de todos¨ (“Education is Everyone’s Responsability”) – are programs which consult the opinion of university students on recent public policy initiatives related to higher education and also monitor public sector management in Bogota.

•The application of software for the management of institutional information (managers, staff, organizational structure, projects, events, etc.) • The development of a content portal for cellphones in Portugal.

• Universia Empleo and Certification Online (Mexico). This program offers companies the possibility of selecting candidates for a job in addition to the monitoring of each resume throughout the placement process. It also permits the company to administer a test online to prospective candidates which evaluates vocational orientation as well as other placement related tests.



• Consulting work for the Ministry of Education of Colombia on the publication of web content and the “Libro abierto” Program to be included in the portal “Colombia Aprende” (“Colombia Learns”).

• Directory of Teaching Staff for Portuguese universities which permits searches by name, institution, specialty or key words.

• The Magazine “Digital Ágora” (Mexico) which is aimed towards students of Social Sciences and Humanities, includes articles on Economics, Political Science, Philosophy, Art, etc.



• International Conference on Fundraising as part of the II University – Business Forum celebrated in Peru.

• The training of teaching staff in basic and advanced internet use (400 universities and 220 teachers of primary and secondary schools), Peru.

•Creation and development of a Department of Responsable Environmental Management in the Universidad Metropolitana, Venezuela. • Project PRIDCO (Puerto Rico). High tech database which promotes research programs which have business applications, Puerto Rico. • First Bilingual Conference on ¨Blending¨ which analyzed new possibilities for distance learning for the hispanic population of the U.S.

University – Business Relations: Iniciatives 2006 / 2007


• Certicap Personal and Professional Skills Test: This test

provides an analysis of skills such as leadership, teamwork,

decision-making, etc.

• Meetings with university - business project leaders and the

organization of meetings between university and business

sectors.

Student and TeacherExchange Programs

Knowledge Exchange

Globalalization ofuniversity activities



Projects

• International Portal• Scholarship Portal• Scholarship management program

• Departmental Intranet

• Intranet for Deans • Workshops• Meetings• Agreements


03. Initiatives 2006-2007UNIVERSIA

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Universia Strengths

online and offline

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Universia Universia Strengths

Capabilities:

• Manage research studies that link University - Business and University

• Promote projects that incorporate new technologies in universities

• Launch projects of technology awareness aimed at youth

• Train intermediate management and public sector managers

• Set up technology rooms in rural areas

•Develop “Spanish as a second language” and “Specialized Spanish” programs in cooperation with universities

• Offer continued education courses for teachers and management courses for intermediate managers in the public sector

•Organize and offer leadership courses

Cooperation Agreements

03. Iniciatives 2006-2007UNIVERSIA

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