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University of Navarra is a private research university. Its mission is to seek and convey the truth, contribute to the academic, cultural, and personal growth of its students, provide appropriate development opportunities to its faculty and staff, and broadly cultural extension work and social development, with a clear purpose of service. The University of Navarra was created in 1952. It has more than 11,000 students in undergraduate, master and doctoral degrees in its 6 campuses: Pamplona, San Sebastian, Barcelona, Madrid, New York and Munich. More than 60 years later, University of Navarra has an alumni community of 150.000+ living and working all around the world. Since 2003, the Alumni Scholarship Program has awarded more than 600 students totaling 9.107.000 €; thanks to the generosity of alumni, foundations, companies, and institutions. University of Navarra also has a hospital medical center characterized by a high degree of medical specialization, constant technological renewal and teamwork. It is a private non-profit hospital that makes constant efforts to promote research in close collaboration with other centers of the University of Navarra and the Center for Applied Medical Research (CIMA). One of the latest projects at University of Navarra is its Museum of Contemporary Art with the goals of preserve, exhibit, research, and publish original works of art to boost the academic goals of University of Navarra and to enrich the cultural lives of the city of Pamplona, the region of Navarra, and society in general.

La Universidad Complutense de Madrid es una universidad pública de calidad al servicio de la sociedad. Sus estudiantes son el eje principal de su actividad por ello, la UCM apuesta por una formación integral y crítica del más alto nivel. Su oferta para el curso 2016-17 es inigualable: 82 grados y más de 293 posgrados (entre másteres, títulos propios y doctorados). Muchos de ellos se pueden cursar con el 50% de las asignaturas en inglés. La UCM posee un gran potencial investigador ocupando posiciones de liderazgo internacional. Tiene convenios de cooperación con 340 Universidades de todo el mundo y con 934 instituciones en 77 países, que permiten realizar intercambios de estudiantes, personal docente e investigador y personal de administración a todos los continentes. Dispone de la mayor Biblioteca del país, solo superada por la Biblioteca Nacional, con más 3.000.000 de volúmenes y un fondo histórico de más de 232.000 ejemplares. Ofrece cerca de 11.000 puestos de lectura distribuidos en 32 bibliotecas de centro, además de la Biblioteca Histórica. Su hemeroteca recibe más de 40.000 publicaciones y revistas científicas periódicas y es uno de los principales suministradores de publicaciones científicas al conjunto de universidades del país. Cuenta también con una extensa oferta cultural con la que disfrutar del arte, la literatura, la música, el teatro, museos, festivales y con más de 250.000m2 de instalaciones deportivas para practicar el deporte que se quiera. Toda la actividad complutense gira en torno a principios de democracia, transparencia, sostenibilidad del campus, accesibilidad real y virtual, preservación del medio ambiente y compromiso con el entorno social y económico.

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) is the oldest and largest of all Technical Universities in Spain. It has more than 3,000 faculty members, around 35,000 undergraduate students, and over 8,000 graduate students. UPM is made up of 21 Technical Schools and Faculties covering Architecture, Engineering, Sport and Fashion Design disciplines. Most of its centers are located in the urban district of Madrid, in the City University of Madrid (north of Madrid), in the Montegancedo Campus (west of Madrid), and in the South Campus (southeast of Madrid), although some of them of more recent creation are spread in the outskirts. UPM graduates around 5,000 students every year, of which 20% have participated in one of the existing international mobility programs. For cultural and historical reasons, UPM has especially strong relations with European and Latin American universities and, from 2004, started a fruitful and increasing cooperation with Asian universities, especially those from China. In relation with that point, around 50 students are being exchanged annually with the leading Chinese Technical Universities. UPM has changed its educative system to be in accordance with the Higher Education European Space directives and now is providing an education based on a 4 years Bachelor level, followed by a 1 to 2 years Master level and the PhD level. At present, UPM is offering 39 Bachelor degrees, 55 Master degrees and 47 Doctoral programs. UPM has a strong commitment to Research and Innovation. Participation in competitive European and National research programs provides 40% of the sponsored research funds, and research services and contracts with the industry supply the rest. UPM ranks first among Spanish universities in the European Union R&D funding, having around 15% of the total number of the European Union funded projects such as the Framework Program, EUREKA and ESA (European Space Agency) held in Spain. In addition, UPM has created ...