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Universitat Oberta de CatalunyaAcademic Year 2003-2004 Annual Report

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Contents

Presentation

UOCGoverning BodiesOrganisational StructureStrategic AlliancesInternational ScopeBusiness Initiatives: UOC Group

ActivityTraining- Introduction- “First Cycle Studies; First-and-Second Cycle

Studies; Second Cycle Studies; Own Degrees”- Doctoral Programme on the Information

and Knowledge Society- Postgraduate Education- Pre-university Training- UOC Methodology- The Virtual Library

University Life- Face-to-face Meetings- Student Services and Care- The Club of Graduates and Friends of the UOC

ResearchKnowledge Dissemination and TransferSolidarity Co-operation

Financial Report

Annexes · Activities Involving Social Dissemination

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The organic growth of the UOC is constant and sustained. In the 2003-2004course, the number of enrolled students increased by 16%. Two milestonesof this academic year also characterise a commitment to research – the newIN3 Building at the Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia, in Castelldefels(Barcelona), and the presentation and publication of the results of the firstphase of the Catalonia Internet Project (Projecte Internet Catalunya, PIC).Within the sphere of internationalisation, the first edition of the internationalseminar organised by the UNESCO Chair: Leading the University in theKnowledge Society, and the creation of a stable operational base in MexicoDF have marked the course of the academic year 2003-2004.

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Recognised Degrees, Main Campus 17Recognised Degrees, Latin AmericanCampus 12Own Degrees 1Postgraduate Programmes 158Students* 32,246UOC’s Teaching Staff 128Tutors 1,174Counsellors 332Subjects Offered* 1,584Graduates with Recognised Degrees 2,836Graduates with Master’s and Postgraduate Degrees 2,197Diplomas in Advanced Studies 109Management Team 337

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The UOC in Figures 2003-2004

Type Ordinary Investments2000 (1) 28,986,634.49 4,765,386.212001 (1) 33,836,534.97 4,839,289.182002 (1) 38,705,615.86 7,190,938.432003 (1) 40,900,382.75 9,407,455.372004 (2) 42,158,761.90 6,244,790.53

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“Catalonia possesses a consolidated university system and everybody is aware that the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya is one of its pillars andthat it helps to make this system truly complete, because it provides itwith an effective capacity for attending to the growing social expectationof an offer of quality distance higher education”.

Carles SolàPresident of the Board of Trustees of the FUOC, Catalan

Minister of Universities, Research, and the Information Society

“The sphere of the social dissemination of knowledge also witnesses to our university identity. Lletra – the most prestigious area of Catalanliterature on the Internet – is an example of how the resources andcapacities generated at the university also come within the reach of society as a whole. This is our responsibility, and it is what we havedone and will continue to do with Lletra and with the other initiatives of the UOC in the sphere of dissemination”.

Gabriel FerratéRector of the UOC

“... the UOC is a pretext and model of what cultural and organisationalchange can be in university institutions in an environment marked by the irruption of the information and communications technologies and the emergence of a new dynamic of innovation, creativity,competence, know-how, competition, and doing things better”.

Josep VilarasauPresident of the Advisory Council of the UOC

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Josep Vilarasau, Carles Solà and Gabriel Ferraté

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Presentation

For some years now Catalonia haspossessed a solid university system, andthis is excellent news for the whole country.It needs to be said, however, that thissystem would not be complete if it were not for the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya,whose existence allows an effectiveresponse to the growing social demand foran offer of distance higher education ofoutstanding quality. Nonetheless, we are notface-to-face with a novelty: the UOC hasbeen fulfilling this requirement to a highlysatisfactory degree over the last ten years.

The UOC’s most recent commitment is tothe sphere of research, and here it stillhas a long way to go. It is obvious thatthe academic identity of a university – itsprestige, its international projection, itsproductivity within the framework of thesociety that it belongs to – mustnecessarily arise from research, as well asfrom teaching and the dissemination ofknowledge throughout society. Theresearch carried out by a university oftendetermines the quality of its teaching andthe use of the knowledge and productsthat it transfers to society. In this sphere,too, the UOC has been able to establisha characteristic profile of its own.

Two achievements in the 2003-2004course show very clearly that research atthe UOC is going in the right direction. Onthe one hand, the IN3 already possessesan appropriate and modern area on theCampus Mediterrani de la Tecnologia inCastelldefels, Barcelona. On the other,the Catalonia Internet Project (ProjecteInternet Catalunya, PIC) has come to theend of its first phase with the presentationand publication of its results.

The PIC opens up a debate about the historical process of transition andtransformation that has taken us from theindustrialised to the network society, andabout how this process is expressed and made concrete in the case of Catalansociety. Consequently, it is more astarting-point than a place of arrival. It is a first-rate scientific tool that makesavailable to researchers a study that,because of its results, establishes aninitial reference framework that in thefuture will have to allow a bringing up todate – and with homogeneous criteria – of this cross-section of our society. It is precisely for this reason that thegovernment of Catalunya has decided to give it continuity by guaranteeing the funds necessary for the secondphase of the project, due to beundertaken in the period 2004-2006.

Finally, and as this has represented a firmcommitment on the part of the governmentof the Generalitat de Catalunya, it isappropriate to refer to the task carried outfrom the UOC in this course in thepromotion of free software - an educationalpromotion expressed in the first internationalMaster’s in Free Software, as well as adissemination promotion made concrete inthe Document de Barcelona (“Challenges for the extension and consolidation of freesoftware”) presented in May, and apromotion and commitment to ensure theaccessibility and availability of the VirtualCampus of the University in free software.

Carles Solà i FerrandoPresident of the Board of Trustees of the FUOCCatalan Minister of Universities, Research, and theInformation Society

The annual challenge of the AcademicReport provides a good occasion forreflection on what we have done andwhat still remains for us to do. Allow meto begin by expressing my satisfaction atthe overall situation: the UOC is growingand this is due to all involved.

The organic growth of our University isconstant and sustained. In the 2003-2004 course, the number of enrolledstudents increased by 16%. This factdemonstrates two things: on the onehand, that the kind of university that thisis fits in well with what society requires of us, and on the other, that theacademic and management team of the University is working well in offering a product of the quality expected of us.

One of the objectives of this effort andone of the reasons for this success is the increase in the educational offer: thetraining programmes of the UOC arecontinuing to increase, and at presentthere are seventeen recognised degreecourses – twelve of which are also givenon the Latin American campus – offeredby the University, as well as one owndegree course and more that a hundredMaster’s and Postgraduate courses. Thusincrease in the educational offer is one ofour duties as a University, and even moreso as we are still such a young university.It is worth stressing this growth, which isexpressive of the consolidation of theUOC, and it is worthwhile to continue onthis same pathway.

I would underline the importance of the launching in this last course of EastAsian Studies, which lead to a Bachelor’sdegree and a Master’s, of the firstinternational Master’s degree in FreeSoftware, and of the internationalMaster’s degree in E-learning.

The sphere of the social dissemination of knowledge also witnesses to ouruniversity identity. Today, I want to pointto an especially illustrative case: theconsolidation of the digital area Lletra,which has become the most completeresource centre for Catalan literature onthe web that citizens and scholars canresort to. It is an example of how theresources and capacities generated atthe university also come within the reachof society as a whole. This is ourresponsibility, and it is what we havedone and will continue to do with Lletraand with the other initiatives of the UOCin the sphere of dissemination.

I would not wish to finish without referringto research. In this 2003-2004 course wemade operative the new premises of theresearch institute of the UOC (the IN3) atthe Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia inCastelldefels, Barcelona. These premiseshave appeared in an institute that, in thefour years in which it has been functioning,has come to possess a solid network ofresearchers - many of them lecturers at theUniversity itself - who have participated inmore than two hundred IN3-led researchprojects. They have also collaborated withsome one hundred educational, research,and business institutions in more than thirtycountries. The new premises confirm,therefore, the vitality of a project for whichwe have high hopes.

Gabriel FerratéRector of the UOC

My introductory remarks to this 2003-2004 Academic Report concern oncemore the role of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya as an internationalreference-point. In this course theinternational seminar of the UOC’sUNESCO Chair was held for the first time- an event that represents a commitmentto co-operation and the interchange ofexperience with academics and universitymanagement from all around the world.

Under the motto Leading the University in the Knowledge Society, this seminarbrought together thirty-one Rectors andVice Rectors from ten countries andtwenty-six different institutions that, fromBarcelona and with the UOC as a pretextand model of cultural and organisationalchange, shared the challenges thatuniversity institutions have to confront inan environment marked by the irruption of the information and communicationstechnologies and the emergence of anew dynamic of innovation, creativity,competence, know-how, competition,and doing things better.

Far from centring its discourse anddebating sessions on a merely tactical or instrumental vision of ICTs applied to the university training and learningprocess, this international gathering madea strategic proposal for the introduction of e-learning into universities as anopportunity for setting in motion aprocess of institutional change towardorganisational, academic, andmanagement models definitively centredon the student: the client. Such a changewould result in a capacity to respond inboth a timely and efficacious way to theexpectation of leadership that the worldsof economics, culture and scienceentertain of the universities that are goingto be the element galvanising thetransition from the society of the twentiethcentury to the knowledge and informationsociety of the twenty-first century.

The UOC is a point of reference amonguniversities because of the singularity of its model, and is also a promoter of the information society. It is so on aninternational basis. The repercussionsfrom this first holding of the seminar and the continuation of the strategy ofimplanting the UOC “locally” in thecreation of a stable operations-base in Mexico DF – which joins the one inBrussels and the others that in the 2004-2005 course will be established in othercountries – show us the vitality, themeaning, and the value of the UOC as an agent in the projection and presenceof Catalonia in the world.

Josep VilarasauPresident of the FUOC Council

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UOC

Governing Bodies

The Foundation for the UniversitatOberta de Catalunya

The Foundation for the Universitat Obertade Catalunya, created on 6th October1994, is governed by a Board of Trusteesmade up from entities widely representativeof the entire territory and possessed ofconsiderable social prestige. The followingare its founding institutions: the CatalonianFederation of Savings Banks; the Chamberof Commerce, Industry and Navigation ofBarcelona; Televisió de Catalunya, SA; andCatalunya Ràdio, Servei de Radiodifusió dela Generalitat, SA (Catalonian Radio andTelevision).

The Board of Trustees was subsequentlyjoined by the Generalitat de Catalunya(Catalonian Autonomous Government),which holds the majority of votes, and laterby the Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, theFundación Lara and the Fundación Telefónica.

The constitutive process continued with theunanimous approval of the Law ofRecognition of the UOC (Law 3/1995, ofApril 6th) and the corresponding publicationof that law in the Official Gazette of theGeneralitat (DOGC) of 21 April 1995.

Board of Trustees of the FUOC

The Board of Trustees is the highest bodyin the representation, government andadministration of the Foundation accordingto its Statutes (section 1, article 14.1). Themain functions of the Board of Trustees inregard to the Universitat Oberta deCatalunya are to approve, and if need be tomodify, the Norms for the organisation andfunctioning of the Universitat Oberta deCatalunya, to appoint or to remove theRector and the Administrator, to approve theBudget and the accounts of the University,to approve the Strategic Plan presented bythe Rector and to evaluate its results.

Members of the Board of Trustees of the FUOC

Andreu Mas-Colell Minister of Universities and Research of the Generalitat de Catalunya, replacedby Carles Solà i Ferrando on 16th March2004Chairman

Antoni Serra-RamonedaChairman of the Caixa de CatalunyaVice President

Josep GrifollSecretary-General, Ministry of Universitiesand Research, Generalitat de Catalunya,replaced by Ramon-Jordi Moles on 16thMarch 2004Vice President

Claudi Alsina i CatalàDirector-General of Universities, replacedby Ramon Vilaseca i Alavedra on 26thFebruary 2004Vocal

Joaquím CasalDirector-General of Research, replaced byFrancesc Xavier Hernández i Carmonaon 13th February 2004 Vocal

Francesc CabréPresident of the Chamber of Commerceof Reus Vocal

Vicenç VillatoroDirector-General, Corporació Catalana deRàdio i Televisió, replaced by Joan Majó iCruzate on 26th February 2004Vocal

Pere RifàDirector, Caixa de Sabadell Vocal

Miquel VallsChairman-Chamber of Commerce ofBarcelona Vocal

Antoni Fernández TeixidóMinister of Employment and Industry,replaced by Josep Maria Rañé i Blascoon 16th March 2004 Vocal

Raimon CarrascoChairman of the Fundació EnciclopèdiaCatalanaVocal

Carme-Laura GilMinister of Education, Generalitat deCatalunya, replaced by Marta Cidon 24th February 2004 Vocal

José Manuel Lara BoschPresident of the Fundación José Manuel LaraVocal

Jordi Alvinyà i RoviraSecretary of Telecommunications and theInformation Society, Generalitat deCatalunya, replaced by Oriol Ferran iRiera on 26th February 2004 Vocal

Fernando VillalongaDirector-General of Fundación Telefónica Vocal

Gabriel FerratéRector, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya*

Xavier AragayDirector, Foundation for the UniversitatOberta de Catalunya*

Enrique AlcántaraSecretary, Foundation for the UniversitatOberta de Catalunya*

* They have no voting rights

Board ofTrustees

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The Standing Committee of the Board

The Foundation’s Board of Trusteesdelegates some of its functions to the Standing Committee, which is thepermanent body for the administrationand management of the Foundation. Its mission is to direct the ordinary affairsof the Foundation.

Members of the Standing Committee of the Board

Claudi Alsina i CatalàDirector-General of Universities, replacedby Ramon Vilaseca i Alavedra en fechaon 26th February 2004Chairman

Vicenç VillatoroDirector-General, Corporació Catalana deRàdio i Televisió, replaced by Joan Majó iCruzate on 26th February 2004Vocal

Pere RifàDirector, Caixa de Sabadell Vocal

Jordi Alvinyà i RoviraSecretary of Telecommunications and the Information Society, Generalitat deCatalunya, replaced by Oriol Ferran iRiera on 26th February 2004 Vocal

Gabriel FerratéRector, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya*

Xavier AragayDirector, Foundation for the UniversitatOberta de Catalunya*



The FUOC Council

The Board of Trustees is assisted by the FUOC Council, a consultative body of the Foundation, in accordance with anagreement of 28th December 1995, madeby the Government of the Generalitat deCatalunya, by which the composition and functions of the Council are approved(Resolution of 8th January 1996).

The function of the FUOC Council is toinform about the budget, the programme,and the appointment of the Rector of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

It is made up by - in addition to theRector of the UOC and the Director of the FUOC - representatives from theCatalan Parliament (2), the publicuniversities (4), employers’ associations(2) and trade unions (2), and variouspersonalities from the fields of researchand culture. It is therefore widelyrepresentative of Catalan society, whichthe University, given that it is a publicservice, has the determination and the duty to serve.

Members of the FUOC Council

Ministers-representatives appointed by the Catalan Parliament:

Josep LaporteEx-commissioner for Universities and Research

Joan MajóCounsellor of the European Institute for the Media

Councillors-representatives of Catalanpublic universities appointed by the Inter-university Council of Catalonia(Consell Interuniversitari de Catalunya):

Joan BatlleRector, University of Girona (UdG)

Joan TugoresRector of the University of Barcelona

Rosa Maria VirósRector of the Pompeu Fabra University

Lluís ArolaRector of the Rovira i Virgili University (URV)

Councillors-representatives appointed bythe most widespread lawfully-constitutedemployers’ associations in Catalonia:

Josep A. Díaz SalanovaVice President of Foment

Lluís GodayolRepresentative of PIMEC

Councillors-representatives appointed by the most representative lawfully -constituted trade unions in Catalonia:

César López SánchezRepresentative of Comissions Obreres(CCOO)

Jordi Fayos i LópezRepresentative of UGT

Councillors-representatives appointed by the Board of Trustees of the FUOC:

Josep VilarasauPresident, Caixa d’Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona Foundation Chairman

Manuel Castellet

Carmina VirgiliSpanish Senate Vice President

Two vacants

Gabriel FerratéRector, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

Xavier AragayDirector, Foundation for the UniversitatOberta de Catalunya



The Governing Council of the UOC

The internal organisation of the UniversitatOberta de Catalunya has in theGoverning Council its highest body of collegiate government, whose functionis to orient, plan and evaluate universityactivity, and to lay down the main lines ofaction of the University in all its spheres.

The Rector is the highest authority of the University and holds the maximumresponsibility in the representation,government, and administration of the University. The Rector is assisted by the Vice Rectors and the Administrator,whose job is the overseeing of theordinary management of the University.

Members of the Governing Council of the UOC

Gabriel FerratéRector

Carles Sigalés (from September 2003)Vice Rector for Faculty and AcademicPolicy

Imma Tubella (until January 2004)Vice Rector for Research

Francesc VallverdúVice Rector for Educational Methodologyand Innovation (also in charge of the ViceRectorate for Research from January2004)

Joan Fuster Vice Rector for Cultural Action andRelations

Francisco RubioVice Rector for International Relations

Xavier AragayAdministrator

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Business Advisory Council of the UOC

On 1st April the Business AdvisoryCouncil of the UOC was established,made up by high-ranking businessmanagement from the spheres ofenterprise and economics in Cataloniaand Spain. This Council, which makes its appearance as an innovation in theSpanish sphere, seeks to contribute to the debate about the strategies andactivities necessary for making possiblethe access of business professionals to the educational system at any time intheir professional lives, and for facilitating,in this way, the updating of theircompetencies throughout their careers.

Innovation, training, and knowledge are,today, the three basic pillars for theprogress of our societies and enterprises.And this is even more true at a time of considerable development anddissemination of the new technologies,and in particular ICTs, which aredeveloped in global markets. The marketin which innovative businesses operate is also global, even when these are smallor medium-sized.

The UOC has understood that both the teaching model and the transfer of technology and knowledge must formpart of this context. New needs must bemet, and this must be done in a different

manner, both in respect of the veryconcept of the university and in respect of the integration of the institution in thescientific and business network. These arenot worlds advancing in a parallel fashion,but rather are totally interconnected.

The Business Advisory Council, throughthe assessment that it offers, willcontribute to, among others, thefollowing:

- Favouring the access of the UOC to theworld of business and responding to itsneeds.

- Possessing a thorough knowledge ofthe process in which these needs aregenerated.

- Providing a more direct knowledge of,and an increased access to, theinstitutional, economic, scientific, andtechnological network, both at thenational and the international levels.

- Helping to disseminate the innovativeproposal that the UOC embodies, bylaying particular emphasis on itsbusiness activity.

In short, contributing to the fact that theUOC, because of its experience inteaching and research, is a point ofreference world wide in the realm ofbusiness activity and management, and inparticular, in information and knowledge.

Members of the Business AdvisoryCouncil

Sra. Anna Birulés BertranPresident

Sr. Luis Lada DíazExecutive DirectorDirector-General of Development,Planning, and RegulationTelefónica SA

Sr. Francisco Belil Creixell Vice President and CEOBayer Hispania SA

Sr. Josep Daniel GubertFormer top executive at Nestlé

Sr. Juan Ignacio FornósVice President of Mitsubishi HeavyIndustries Europe

Sr. Antoni Massanell LavillaGeneral Executive Manager of “la Caixa” savings bank

Gabriel FerratéRector

Xavier AragayAdministrator

Carles EsquerréDeputy Administrator

Organisational Structure

Development of the Norms forOrganisation and Functioning

The Norms for Organisation andFunctioning (NOF) constitute the normsby which the UOC is regulated andestablish the criteria by which theinstitution must carry out its function(mission, principles, and objectives), aswell as how it is governed and organisedinternally (Governing Bodies andUniversity Structures) and how itpromotes the free and responsibleparticipation in the life of the University

(University Community) of those whomake up the Universitat Oberta deCatalunya.

In this course, progress was made in the development of the new NOF, witha special emphasis being placed on the consolidation of the studentrepresentative bodies. In June 2004elections were held for the students’representatives at the FacultyCommittees, and, in the case of the Main Campus, the Support CentreCommittees.

Previously, on 31st March 2004, theGoverning Council of the University had

approved the Electoral Norms of the UOCand the Rules for the Organisation andFunctioning of the Faculty and SupportCentres Committees.

The UOC renewed the NOF on the basisof the new state-wide Law of Universities(LOU) of 2001 and the Law ofUniversities of Catalonia (LUC) ofFebruary 2003. These renewed NOFwere approved by the Government of the Generalitat (Autonomous Governmentof Catalonia) and subsequently publishedin the DOGC (Official Gazette) on 4thNovember 2003.

The Organisation

The UOC, as an organisation, has grown,diversified, and become more complex.This reality has caused it radically tochange the way in which it organises itsactivities, such that it is in a process ofconstant evolution.

This activity is carried out around threemain axes: teaching, research, and socialdissemination.

Through its teaching activity, the UOCseeks to establish itself as a worldreference-point in the sphere of distancetraining.

Through its research activity, the UOCseeks to lead the study of the impact thatthe intensive use of the new informationand communications technologies has on society.

The social dissemination of knowledge is also an essential activity, and is carriedout through the portal of the University,the Editorial UOC, and activities such asgatherings, congresses, and seminars.

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Management Structure

Administrator’s OfficeXavier AragayAdministratorCarles EsquerréDeputy AdministratorJosep SalvatellaHead of Planning and Quality

OfficesSergi CuadradoAdministrator’s OfficeJosep Maria OliverasDirector of the Rector’s Office

Heads of AreaLourdes AnglèsEconomy Toni BrunetCommunicationAssumpta CivitHuman ResourcesConxita MarlésMarketingFrancesc NogueraTechnologyAdoració PérezLibraryGenís RocaUniversity CommunityAlbert SangràMethodology

Administrator of the InternetInterdisciplinary Institute (IN3)Mireia Riera

Administrator of Recognised DegreesJosep Riera

Directors of Operating GroupsMagí AlmirallDevelopment of IntranetsCarles CortadaOrganisational Design and Managementof the Professional Team

Marta EnrechDigital LibraryIsrael GarcíaDigital ProductionEsther GonzalvoCommunication with the StudentIsabel GuinovartSecretary Josep IzquierdoFinance and Fiscal ManagementJuanjo MartíComputer Applications for ManagementAntoni MartínezOperational MarketingPedro MinguezaTechnological InfrastructuresJaume MoregóInstitutional Relations and Management of ActivitiesRosa OteroBudget ManagementÀngels ParedesDevelopment of the Professional TeamCarles RamírezTeaching Co-ordination and ManagementPatrícia RieraDocumentation Services Lluís RiusPublishing and Dissemination Projects Antoni RomeroTerritorial ServicesAntoni RoureTelecommunicationsImma SánchezLinguistic ServiceNúria SolerManagement of Bibliographic MaterialJuan Antonio TaboadaInfrastructures and LogisticsMaria TaulatsInformation for Management

Head of the Latin American DivisionAntoni Cahner

Directors of the Latin American DivisionImma Garcia OrriolsRecruitmentLadislau Girona FloresMarketingMontfragüe Madera SandínFinancesAnabel Marín GonzàlvezPostgraduateGemma Segura VirellaLoyalty Isabel Solà AlbaredaAcademicLluís Tarín MartínezContinuing Education

Executive Directors of ContinuingEducation ProgrammesMatías Álvarez GonzálezMontserrat Atienza AlarcónJesús Mendoza JorgeM. Elena Rodríguez Vall-lloveraMarc López AlabertDaniel Roman Ramentol

Heads of Support CentresMònica de LlorensManresa - Vic - SaltFanny GalveReus - LleidaJosep Maria BastéBarcelonaVíctor PanicelloSant Feliu de Llobregat - Vilafranca delPenedès - Sabadell - TerrassaTeresa NiellesTortosa

Persons in charge of premises outsideCataloniaMontserrat CasalprimAndorraJorge BronetMadridLaura AlcañizValenciaSergio CanceloSeville

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The UOC’s Model of Excellence

The UOC seeks to be an institution thatwill excel in each of the services itrenders. In order to achieve this goal, theUOC provides itself with the policies andtools proper to universities andinstitutions renowned for their quality.

The entirety of the policies, systems andtools of its own that the UOC has set inmotion is what is known as its model ofexcellence.

This model applies to any of the areas of the UOC, whether in the institutionalsphere or in that of a specific activity.

This academic year, there has come intoservice the data warehouse of the UOC,with a total of twenty reports availableand more than one-hundred-and-fiftyindicators. At present a total of fiftypeople have access to it and it isenvisaged that the volume both ofindicators and of users will increase.

Also during the academic year 2004-2005 the command structure project gotunder way, and it is foreseen that it willcome into service after the 2004-2005academic year. This group of tools isintended to allow the possession of thekey indicators that contribute to decision-

making. The surveys of studentsatisfaction have been revised and a newinstitutional survey questionnaire hasbeen elaborated, as well as an internalwork area for sharing these results calledLa veu de l’estudiant (The Voice of theStudent).

Academic Structure

Academic structure and managementstructure are the two elements on whichturn the strategic leadership and the day-to-day responsibility of the University.

In regard to academic structure, which isdealt with in detail in the chapter about theactivities of the UOC, the University’s ownteaching staff is the central element. TheUOC’s own teaching staff are in charge of the academic supervision of all theundergraduate, graduate, post-graduateand third-cycle training programmes thatthe University offers, as well as ofcontinuing education. The UOC’s ownteaching staff also is in charge of the co-ordination of a web of more than 1,500counsellors and tutors, who are responsiblefor guiding the learning process and theattainment of the educational objectives of the students of the University.

Execution

EvaluationStrategy

Systems and Resources

Persons

Leadership

Culture

Learning and Improvement

Elements in Model of Excellence

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Infrastructures

On 28th October 2003 the IN3 Building in the Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologiade Castelldefels was officially opened.This building finally has available 4,167square metres of its total surface area,which are distributed over three stories,and an auditorium with a capacity for 120 people.

A building was rented in the Avinguda del Tibidabo, with an available surfacearea of 628.15 square metres.

On 30th June 2004 the first stone waslaid of the new building situated in theCan Jaumandreu block on the Rambladel Poblenou in Barcelona, betweenAvinguda Diagonal and the Carrer Perú(22@ area). The completion of the worksis due in the second semester of 2005.

Technology

In the second fortnight of March the projectfor the re-structuring and broadening of theData Centre of the UOC was undertaken.This process supposed the preparation ofa new auditorium in the building that theUniversity possesses in the ParcMediterrani de la Tecnologia deCastelldefels, which has assumed thefunction of main production server. Themachine-room that was there previouslyworks a pre-production service and as areplica of the main one. The newarchitecture will allow the improvement ofthe scale and of the security and themanagement of the building, and willpermit the existence of a pre-productionservice for giving applications test runs. TheUOC has more than one hundred serversin operation and thirteen sub-networks,provides more than fifty services, and dealswith three million messages a month.

Computer Applications for Management

It is worth stressing the consolidation ofteaching activity management tools, inwhich broadenings have been made in

the development of the publishing of theteaching plan, in contract management,commissions, and the payment ofcollaborators. The analysis of a tool forthe overall management of the subjecthas also been undertaken.

In the academic regard, there haveappeared, among other notableimprovements, the applications for themanagement of end-of-course assignmentsand the digitalisation of examinations.

On the other hand, there are developmentsin the new management of the evaluationof previous studies, and the new version of the system of control of accesses andthe management of users, and also the analysis of a new tool for dealing withusers’ consultations and students’ files.

Access Networks

The main access networks that are usedby students and lecturers to connect tothe servers of the UOC are the BasicTelephony Network or BTN, theIntegrated Services Digital Network orISDN, and the Asymmetric Digital

Subscriber Line or ADSL. In thisacademic year, the use of ADSLincreased to the detriment of conventionaltechnologies, especially among thecollaborating teaching staff as the resultof an attractive promotion of the use ofthis broad bandwidth technology.

The flow served over the Internet doubledonce more in the last academic year, suchthat it went from 15.2 Mbps served at thebeginning of March 2003 to 27.3 Mbps inthe same month the following year.

The majority of the server computer farmshave been transferred to the new premisesin Castelldefels. With the change there hasbeen an increase in the growth capacity ofservices information systems, and theirsecurity has been improved.

With the objective of improving the qualityof the services on the educationalintranet, content accelerators have beeninstalled, and these diminished accesstime to the Virtual Campus by 40%.

During the academic year the project for theinstallation of Wi-Fi wireless technology onthe premises of the UOC was undertaken.

Management 23

Directors of Operating Group/Cabinet 27

Support Centre Managers 5

UOC’s Teaching Staff* 128

Technical Staff 221

Administrative Staff 61

Total 465

*This includes Vice Rectors

Professional Team Collaborating Teaching Staff of the Recognised Degrees at the Main Campusand the Latin American Campus

Faculties Tutors* Counsellors** Total

Economics and Business Studies 350 122 472

Psychology and Educational Sciences 152 43 195

Law and Political Science 120 31 151

Humanities and Language and Literature 152 28 180

Computer Science and Multimedia 298 66 364

Information and Communication Sciences 75 22 97

Tourism Programme 9 4 13

East Asian Programme 18 16 34

Total 1,174 332 1,506

* Tutor: Lecturer who is in charge of imparting the various subjects** Counsellor: A person of outstanding importance for the student during his or her time at the University,offering guidance throughout the process of enrolment, learning, and presence at the UOC, and providing the student with attention and professional orientation at the end of the course of studies

Buildings of the UOC

City m2

Premises Tibidabo, 39 Barcelona 2,149.94

Tibidabo, 43 Barcelona 3,079.97

Tibidabo, 47 Barcelona 1,146.37

Tibidabo, 47 Barcelona 628.15

Diputació Barcelona 1,450.00

IN3 Castelldefels 4,167.00

Support Centres

Bages Manresa 248.00

Gironès Salt 195.00

Baix Camp Reus 360.00

Barcelonès Barcelona 1,343.84

Segrià Lleida 287.00

Andorra Sant Julià de Lòria 200.00

Vallès Occidental Sabadell 57.60

Vallès Occidental Terrassa 343.00

Baix Llobregat Sant Feliu de Llobregat 441.00

Baix Ebre Tortosa 251.00

Total m2 16,347.87

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Strategic Alliances

Ever since the beginning of its activity, the UOC has struck multiple alliances with institutions of a very varied character(universities, enterprise, governmentalinstitutions, and so on), of a local,autonomous, national or internationalscope.

In this academic year, relations werebroadened with certain organisations with which the UOC had previouslycollaborated – universities, above all – and agreements have been signed toestablish new collaboration with variousinstitutions, all of which had the objectiveof offering better service to thecommunity, achieving the objectives of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya,and promoting its territorial extension.

The new agreements and accords weresigned with the following institutions:

Universities

Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)University of Barcelona (UB)University of Girona (UdG)University of the Balearic Islands (UIB)University of Lleida (UdL)University of Vic (UV)University of ValènciaJaume I UniversityPolytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)Pompeu Fabra University (UPF)Rovira i Virgili University (URV)University of CadisBlaise Pascal-Clermont II UniversityUniversity of Montpelier IICFA-UM IIDIFCAMUniversity Technological Institute of Saint-NazaireUniversity Technological Institute of VannesUniversity Technological Institute of EvryBretigny Athis-Mons

Generalitat de Catalunya

Associació Catalana de Certificació (CATCert)Associació Catalana d’Entitats de Recerca (ACER)Telecommunications and InformationTechnologies Centre Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and FisheriesMinistry of Universities, Research, and theInformation Society Escola d’Administració Pública de Catalunya(Public Administration School of Catalonia) Ministry of Welfare and the FamilyMinistry of Education Secretariat for Public Security , Ministry ofJustice and Internal AffairsTelecommunications and InformationTechnologies Centre, DURSIConsortium Agency for the Quality of theUniversity System in CataloniaCentre for Business Innovation andDevelopment (Centre d’Innovació iDesenvolupament Empresarial, CIDEM)Centre de Supercomputació de Catalunya (CESCA) Agency for the Management of University andResearch Grants (Agència de Gestió d’AjutsUniversitaris i de Recerca, AGAUR)Catalan Land Institute, Ministry of TerritorialPolicy and Public WorksElectronic Public Services (CAT365)Catalan Tribunal for the Defence of Competition

Regional Sphere

Town Council of BarcelonaTown Council of Manacor Town Council of ManlleuTown Council of Manresa Town Council of Sant Adrià de BesòsTown Council of Santa BàrbaraTown Council of Vilanova i la Geltrú Town Council of IgualadaRegional Council of Baix EbreRegional Council of Alt EmpordàRegional Council of Pla de l’Estany

State-wide Sphere

Ministry of Science and Technology (MCIT)General Council of the JudiciaryTown Council of LeganésComputer Science and Telecommunications ofthe Community of Madrid (Informática yTelecomunicaciones de la Comunidad deMadrid, ICM)Society for the Development of Navarre(Sociedad de Desarrollo de Navarra, SODENA)

Institutions, Foundations, Associations, and Professional Associations

Ausiàs March FoundationCatalan Research Foundation (FundacióCatalana per a la Recerca, FCR) John XXIII FoundationJoviat FoundationMil·lenari FoundationFoundation for Peace

University Foundation of El Bages (FundacióUniversitària del Bages) Amancio Ortega FoundationFundación Comparte con los Niños del MundoDigital FoundationDiocesan School of Educators FoundationSpanish Rheumatology FoundationUnited Families FoundationOMT-Themis FoundationInstitute Ildefons Cerdà Private FoundationSEPI FoundationInternational Governability Institute (InstitutInternacional de Governabilitat, IIG)PIMEC_SEFES Small and Medium Enterprise ofCataloniaTechnology for Everybody Terra CurandaCentre of International Studies, University ofBarcelonaUNICEF - Spanish Committee Business Union of the Penedès (UnióEmpresarial del Penedès) Catalan Association for the Deaf and the Blind(Associació Catalana Pro Persones Sordcegues)Business Confederation of the Province ofTarragonaCouncil of Industrial EngineersGeneral Council of Notaries (Consell General delNotariat, CGN) Spanish Red CrossCatalan ScoutsFriends of the Progress of Black Africa (Amics peral Desenvolupament de l’Àfrica Negra, ADANE) Municipal Education Institute of Barcelona,(Institut Municipal d’Educació de Barcelona, IMEB) Aragonese Institute of the Health Sciences(Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud, IACS)Institute of Social Development Institute of Notaries for the InformationTechnologies (Instituto Notarial para lasTecnologías de la Información, INTI)

Other Entities

Arvato ServicesBrossa Espai EscènicCaixa d’Estalvis de ManresaCaixa ManlleuManresa Technological Centre (CentreTecnològic de Manresa)Centrocom Cyber, SLUniversal Forum of Cultures - Barcelona 2004, SAFundosa Teleservicios, SAGesaworldGestión Integral de Clientes (GICSA)Grupo Usolab, SLHispalinuxINQA Test Labs, SLInstituto DYM, SAMoebius Consulting, SAODECPlaneta de Agostini Profesional y Formación, SLProducciones Odisea , SL

International Institutions

PostEuropPan-American Health Organisation /WorldHealth Organisation

Latin America

Inter-American Development Bank National Institute for Professional Preparation(Institut Nacional per a la CapacitacióProfessional, INACAP)Autonomous University of Bucaramanga (UNAB)Catholic University of SaltaUniversity de La Salle (Bogotá)National University of Austral Patagonia Technological University of Honduras (UTH)Veracruzana UniversityVirtual Educa (Latin American Encounter Forum)Professional Institute DuocUCHigher Technological Institute TECSUP (Peru)Escola Bancària i Comercial Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences(FLACSO)National School of the Judiciary, Supreme Courtof Justice, Dominican Republic

International Scope

The presence of the UOC in the world is made concrete through a strategy of alliances with universities and researchinstitutions representative of variouscountries. These alliances are based on respect and on the acceptance of cultural and linguistic differences, and seek to achieve co-operation on the basis of cultural diversity.

Consolidation of our presence in Mexico

In this academic year a major task hasbeen carried out on three fronts:

- Promoting collaboration with theUniversity of Guadalajara, but also withthe EBC (Escuela Bancaria y Comercial,School of Commerce and Banking),with which institutions pioneeringexperiences are carried out with the objective of reaching the concept of a metacampus, so desirable from the perspective of internationalcollaboration.

- Creating new ties of co-operation withstrategic institutions within the country,such as ANUIES (Asociación Nacionalde Universidades e Instituciones deEnseñanza Superior, NationalAssociation of Universities and HigherEducation Institutions), IPN (InstitutoPolitécnico Nacional, NationalPolytechnical Institute), UniversidadIberoamericana de Puebla (LatinAmerican University of Puebla), andCONALEP (Colegio Nacional deEducacion Profesional, National Collegeof Professional Education).

- Opening an office to bring the Universitycloser to the students of the area incampaigns both to attract candidatesand to retain them. The other objectiveof the office is to facilitate collaborationat the same time.

Activities in South America

In respect of Brazil, which is another of the countries considered strategic, inthis academic year we went ahead withthe work of projecting the University bylocating it within the main networks of the country:

- Associació d’Universitats de l’estat de Santa Catalina (ACAFE, Associationof Universities of the state of SantaCatalina).

- Training and assessment services forsmall and medium enterprise (SEBRAE).

- Network of specialists in distanceeducation (Unirede).

We expect that in the first months of thenext academic year we shall be able tospecify the initial student interchangeprojects that will provide a new impetusto the metacampus project.

From the relations with the participants inthe First Seminar of the UOC’s Chair of E-learning there have appearedworthwhile lines of collaboration inColombia with the University ofBucaramanga, the Autonomous Universityof Colombia, the CEIPA, and the Ministryof Education itself. As a consequence ofthese relations, specific projects are alsobeing designed with the TECSUP(Tecnológico Superior de Perú, HigherTechnological College of Peru) and theDUOC in Chile, in order to offer First Cycle(undergraduate) studies to students whomay have obtained higher professionaltraining in their own countries.

Asia

In China, the UOC is involved in a seriesof activities with the National EducationExaminations Authority (NEEA) within theframework of a pilot project financed bythe European Union and the InternationalCouncil for Distance and Open Education(ICDE). This project, with 300 studentsfrom the province of Zheijiang, hasevaluated the various elements that makeup the UOC model and its adaptability tolocal needs. Work has been done on,among other matters, the translation of theVirtual Campus into Chinese, theadjustment of certain didactic materials,and the specific training of Chineselecturers who have proved their adaptationand have acted as subject tutors.

Co-operation with international bodies

In this last academic year we receivedabout a hundred visits from persons and

groups from universities all over theworld, in the main from Latin America(approximately 70%), as well as fromEurope (some 20%), with the remaindercoming from Asia.

Apart from these visits, certain gatheringsshould be mentioned, as they had aninstitutional character that broughttogether a large number of visitors:

- October 2003: SCOP (StandingConference of Presidents) of ICDE(International Council for Distance and Open Education), which broughttogether some fifty Rectors from the main member institutions.

- April 2004: Reception of a group of thirty Rectors and representatives of Mexican universities within theframework of a tour of Europeanuniversities organised by Columbus-CENEVAL.

- May 2004: Co-organisation of the fourthrunning of Online Educa, held this timein Madrid. It received about threehundred participants.

- June 2004: Collaboration and activeparticipation in Virtual Educa, organisedin Barcelona, in the course of whichwere received a group of eighty peoplewho were attending the Conference ofRectors, and the University was shownto them.

The dissemination of the internationaldoctoral and master’s programmes waspromoted, as well as the links of expertsfrom around the world with theseprogrammes, and the representation ofthe University in international bodies suchas ICDE (International Council forDistance and Open Education), EUA(European Association of Universities),EADTU (European Association ofDistance Teaching Universities), EDEN(European Distance and E-LearningNetwork), and HACU (HispanicAssociation of Colleges and Universities).

From this presence in international bodiesis derived, among other things, theparticipation of lecturers in internationalcongresses or in working groups whichmay become the seedbed forcollaboration projects or research groups.

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Operating bases in Mexico, Brussels, and Beijing

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Business Initiatives: UOC Group

Editorial UOC, SLAragó 182, 1st floor 08011 Barcelona Tel. 93 452 74 20Fax 93 451 30 16www.editorialuoc.com

Director: Isaías TaboasFoundation Date: 24th October 2001Capital at 31st December 2003: 375,650eurosParticipation: 100% UOC Group

Editorial UOC, the press of the UniversitatOberta de Catalunya, places at thedisposal of the university community and of society as a whole a wide range of publications in various supports andformats, which comprise elementsranging from the University Handbook to collections of essays, and with aparticular dedication to the main lines of research at the University.

The press completes its activity by disseminating and making available toall citizens the materials which the UOCelaborates in accordance with a specificmethodology to facilitate distancelearning.

Eurecamèdia, SLAragó 182, 1st floor 08011 Barcelona Tel. 93 452 74 90Fax 93 451 10 54www.eurecamedia.com

Director-General: Isaías TaboasFoundation Date: 29th October 1999Capital at 31st December 2003: 60,104eurosParticipation: 62.5% Editorial UOC, SL

Eurecamèdia continued throughout thefinancial year 2003-2004 to be a point ofreference in the publication of the didacticmaterial of the UOC and of its associatedinitiatives, and also extended in thisperiod its external portfolio of clients, sodoubling once more its income figures.Among its achievements is theconsolidation of its innovation projects:

- MAGIC is no longer only a basic tool for obtaining quality content in thepublishing activity of Eureca, as it is alsobeginning to provide a response to the content management needs of otherfirms in the group. MAGIC has beenaudited and recognised by the Agènciad’Acreditació en Investigació,Desenvolupament i InnovacióTecnològica (AUDIT), a firm in whichparticipate the General Foundation of the Polytechnical University of Madridand the Polytechnical University

of Catalonia as a project whose contentand undertaking are linked to the sphereof research and development, arecognition through which it hasattained the corresponding certificationfrom the Entitat Nacional d’Acreditació(ENAC, National Accreditation Authority).

- Our MERLIN e-learning environmentallows personal access to our workersand clients every day in a safe andstable environment. At present theMERLIN platform provides service to clients such as the Centred’Investigació i Documentació Educativa(Centre for Research and EducationalDocumentation) of the Spanish Ministryof Education, Culture, and Sport, the Polytechnical University of Catalonia,Banco do Espírito Santo and the Grupode Asistencia y Diseño Electrónico(GADE, Electronic Design andAssistance Group).

FUOC

Virtual Consumers’Network

Planeta UOC EO GECEditorial UOC

Eurecamedia

DigitalProduction

Teaching Offer at the Latin

American Campus

Pre-universityTraining

Access > 25 Years

Training for EnterpriseKnowledge Management

Virtual Communities

UOC Group

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Gestión del Conocimiento, SA (GEC)Pellaires, 30-3808019 Barcelona Tel. 93 394 12 00Fax 93 394 12 01www.gec.es

Director-General: Ramon Puente MargalefFoundation Date: 31st January 1997Capital at 31st December 2003: 180,300eurosParticipation: 74% UOC Group

The firm GEC contributes to the value-generating of organisations through themanagement of knowledge, learning, and communication.

In this financial year important initiativeshave been taken in order to consolidateand situate GEC as the company ineverything relating to knowledgemanagement projects, e-learning, andvirtual communities in Spain and LatinAmerica.

A multidisciplinary team of one-hundred-and-ten specialists in various areas(consultants, communicators, pedagogues,engineers, designers, journalists, and soon.) have worked to achieve the objectiveof consolidating the presence of GEC inCatalonia and of broadening the market tothe rest of the State. In this regard, projectsin the public sector have been launchedand reinforced –in the state, autonomous,and local spheres– which are linked to theautomobile sector, to insurance, to theworld of finances, and to pharmaceutics.

Planeta UOC, SLAv. Canal Olímpic, s/n. Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia08860 CastelldefelsTel. 93 681 19 00Fax 93 681 19 10

Director-General: Antoni CahnerFoundation Date: July 2000Capital at 31st December 2003:1,469,144.00 eurosParticipation: 50% UOC Group

The year 2003 saw changes but also andabove all the consolidation of various keydepartments, whose organisation wasimproved.

Some of the most characteristic traits of this period are detailed as follow:

- Teaching activity and Secretary’s Office:Integration, Teaching activity, andSecretary’s Office

- Recruitment: Consolidation and organisation of the recruitment team

- Customer loyalty: Extension of the team of counsellors;promotion and creation of a studentservices team

- Postgraduate Education:

Redefinition of the portfolio:

- Fomenting of the Master’s andpostgraduate programmes (increase of 98% and 15% respectively over the enrolments in 2002).

- Consolidation of the areas ofknowledge linked to the Faculties.

- Creation and development ofprogrammes: Diploma of Tourism,Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in East Asian Studie

- Development from postgraduate to Master’s studies in the areas of Marketing and Human Resources;creation of the General ManagementProgramme (Programa de DireccióGeneral, PDG).

Ensenyament Obert, SLDiputació, 250 08007 BarcelonaTel. 93 412 60 63Fax 93 412 38 51www.obert.com

Administrator: Eugeni SenderFoundation Date: July 1998Capital at 31st December 2003: 480,800eurosParticipation: 50% Planeta UOC

Ensenyament Obert, a company created byEnciclopèdia Catalana and the UniversitatOberta de Catalunya, aims to offer distancetraining programmes focussing especiallyon the pre-university sector and addressedto all those who, for reasons of work,cannot do face-to-face courses, yet whowish to make personal and professionalprogress.

Last year, the main objective ofEnsenyament Obert was the consolidationof the courses which were already runningand the increase in its training offer.

- Access course to the University forpersons over 25 years of age

- Higher Specialist Programmes (PES)

- Access course to higher degree coursesfor persons over 20 years of age

- Higher training courses for professionals

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Xarxa Virtual de Consum, SCCL(Virtual Consumers’ Network) Diputació, 219

08011 BarcelonaTel. 902 432 4273Fax 93 453 94 84www.lavirtual.com

Foundation Date: 25th November 1996Capital at 31st December 2003:155,306.97 eurosParticipation: 0.66% [email protected]

La Virtual (Virtual Consumers’ Network) isa consumers’ co-operative that appearedwithin the ambit of the Foundation for theUniversitat Oberta de Catalunya andoperates within the framework of theservice-providing policy of the UOC. Its aimis to offer solutions to the consumptionneeds of the people who are or who havebeen associated with the UOC (students,lecturers and management staff).

Its juridical status as a consumers’ co-operative has the following objectives:

- To demonstrate the entity’s vocation of service without any direct interest ineconomic benefit, so causing the profitsof the business to revert to customers,basically through lower prices.

- To favour the corporate identification of students and of other members ofthe community, since the co-operativeformula offers a greater potential forinvolvement with the institutional project,a factor of particular relevance in asystem in which the system of relatingto others is non-presential.

General Assemblies

The Ordinary General Assembly, withinthe surroundings of the Virtual Campus,took place between 28th and 30th June,and had the following agenda:

1. Revision and approval of thetransactions for 2003.

2. Revision and approval of the accountsfor 2003.

3. Revision and approval of theManagement Plan and of the budgetfor 2004.

The Extraordinary General Assembly,within the surroundings of the VirtualCampus, was held between 29th Julyand 2nd August, with a single point in the agenda: The renewal of positions inthe Governing Council.

Governing Council

The Governing Council held meetings ofan ordinary character six times during theacademic year.

Members

In the last academic year the number ofmembers increased by more than 1,800,such that at present the co-operative has30,000 members.

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Activity

Training

Introduction

The first university offer in the field of the East Asian Studies has been offeredin conjunction with Casa Àsia inBarcelona. This new academic offer hasenjoyed a wide acceptation. Similarly,recognition has been forthcoming for the training obtained in higher trainingcircles; the Postgraduate Training focusprogrammes have been launched; newitineraries in progressive degrees have beenoffered in order to adapt the academicrecognition given by the University to the needs in the current professionalmarket; the number of sittings for anexam per subject has been extended to a total of three (twice on Saturdays and once during the week); changes in the evaluation norms have beenconsolidated in order to adapt theevaluation model to student needs asmuch as possible, thus facilitating tothem the learning process without the University having to renounce toquality or exigency; and finally the printedversion of the didactic materials in papersupport has been sent corresponding to the subjects that only have materialavailable in web support.

As a novelty, this year new students havebeen given a chance to take part in thecontent and galvanisation of thewelcoming virtual space before registeringfor the first time.

The facilities offered from the VirtualCampus have kept improving with the aim of optimising the workingenvironment and rendering it easier to use: A new contact space has beencreated in the Diary section; the organisation of the classroom contenthas been reviewed and improved; a newuser search tool has been introduced; the functionalities of the personalisedspace have been adapted; newimprovements have been introduced intothe process of filtering receivedmessages; the digital services offered by the Virtual Library have been extendedand personalised; new territorial forumshave been created; the labour exchangeconsolidated itself as a service for practical work agreed between the University and enterprise; communityservices have been promoted; the Secretary’s Office electronicnewsletter has been launched containingacademic information; and new versionsof the browsers to work in the UOC’svirtual environment have beenrecommended, changing from MicrosoftInternet Explorer 6.0 to Netscape 7.0.

Erkki Liikanen, the EuropeanCommissioner for Enterprise andInformation Society, was the UniversitatOberta de Catalunya’s guest to deliver the academic year’s inaugural lecture.

Under the title “eGovernment for Europe’sPublic Services of the Future”, hereflected on the role that the informationand communications technologies (ICT)are destined to have at the time of settingup a new model of public Administrationin Europe, and fundamentally a newmodel of service provision to citizens from the Administration.

As is being customary in UOC inaugurallectures, Commissioner Liikanen’s paperprompted an online debate on “E-government: The Promised Land or an Obstacle Race with No Results”,moderated by UOC lecturers from the Faculty of Law and Political Science.

http://www.uoc.edu/inaugural03/eng/index.html

Diploma in Business Studies

Date of official recognition: RD 2062/1995, of 22 December 1995(BOE no 15 of 17 January 1996)

Length: 3 years divided into 6 semesters*

To obtain this degree, 185.5 credits are required, of which 148.5 arecompulsory, 18 are optional and 19 are of free choice/configuration.

* In accordance with the flexible nature of matriculation, each person can adaptthe length of the studies to his or herpossibilities of dedication.

Degree in Business Administration and Management (Second Cycle)

Date of of official recognition: RD 217/1997, of 14 February 1997 (BOE no 57 of 7 March 1997)


To obtain this degree, 150 credits are required, of which 78 are compulsory, 36 are optional and 36 are of free choice/configuration.


Degree in Labour Sciences (Second Cycle)

Date of official recognition: RD 323/2003,of 14 March 2003 (BOE no 79 of 2 April2003)


To obtain this degree, 120 credits arerequired, of which 78 are compulsory, 24 are optional and 18 are of freechoice/configuration.


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Men 56.7%

Between 25 and 29 years of age (25-30) 31.6%

Profile

2003-04 1,228

Accumulated 2,836

Degree Holders

1st Semester 2nd Semester

Recognised Degrees 23,097 24,782

Own Degrees 697 616

Total 23,794 25,398

Students

Faculty of Economics and BusinessStudies

First Cycle Studies; First-and-SecondCycle Studies; Second Cycle Studies;Own Degrees

General Data

Faculties

Economics and Diploma in Business Studies*Business Studies Degree in Business Administration and Management (2nd Cycle)*

Degree in Labour Sciences*Degree in Market Research and Techniques (2nd Cycle)*

Psychology and Degree in Psychopedagogy (2nd Cycle)* Educational Sciences Degree in Psychology*Law and Political Science Degree in Law Studies*

Degree in Political and Administration Sciences (2nd Cycle)Humanities and Language Degree in Humanitiesand Literature Degree in Catalan Language and Literature Computer Science Technical Engineering in Computer Management*and Multimedia Technical Engineering in Computer Systems*

Computer EngineeringDegree in Multimedia Studies (Own Degree)**

Information and Degree in Documentation (2nd Cycle)Communication Sciences Degree in Audio-visual Communication (2nd Cycle)Tourism Programme Diploma in Tourism*East Asian Programme Degree in East Asian Studies (2nd Cycle)*

* Studies offered at the Main Campus and at the Latin American Campus ** Studies offered at the Latin American Campus only

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Degree in Psychopedagogy(Second Cycle)

Date of official recognition: RD 2062/1995, of 22 December 1995(BOE no 15 of 17 January 1996)


To obtain this degree, 150 credits arerequired, of which 102 are compulsory,33 are optional and 15 are of freechoice/configuration.


Degree in Psychology

Date of official recognition: RD 902/2001,of 27 July 2001 (BOE no 191 of 10August 2001)




Degree in Market Research andTechniques (Second Cycle)

Date of official recognition: RD 362/2003,of 28 March 2003 (BOE no 86-2003 of10 April 2003)




Faculty of Psychology andEducational Sciences

Students

Business Business Administration Labour ITMStudies and Management Sciences

1st Semester 2nd Semester 1st Semester 2nd Semester 1st Semester 2nd Semester 1st Semester 2nd Semester

5,600 5,927 1,154 1,262 1,881 1,900 401 495

Degree Holders

Business Business Administration Labour ITMStudies and Management Sciences

283 154 199 7

Teaching Staff

Head of Faculty

Jordi Vilaseca Requena

Directors of Programmes

Josep M. Batalla BusquetsDirector of the Business Studiesprogramme

Antoni Meseguer ArtolaDirector of the Labour Sciencesprogramme

Inma Rodríguez ArduraDirector of the Market Research and Techniques programme

Elisabet Ruiz DotrasDirector of the Business Administrationand Management programme

UOC’s Teaching Staff

Gisela Ammetller MontesCarlos F. Cabañero PisaDavid Castillo MerinoMònica Cerdán ChiscanoRosa Colomé PeralesPau Cortadas GuaschRaquel Ferreras GarciaPilar Ficapal CusíLluís Garay TamajonCarolina Hintzmann ColominasJosep Lladós MasllorensM. Jesús Martínez Argüelles Dolors Plana ErtaEva Rimbau GilaberFrancisco Rubio RoyoM. Mar Sabadell BoschEnric Serradell LópezJoan Torrent Sellens

NOTE: The faculty directorate is available fromwww.uoc.edu. Here you will find the academic profileand the research experience of the various lecturers.

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Degree in Law Studies

Date of official recognition: RD 217/1997,of 14 February 1997 (BOE no 57 of 7March 1997)



* In accordance with the flexible nature of matriculation, each person may adaptthe length of the studies to his or heravailability.

Degree in Political Sciences and of the Administration (Second Cycle)

Date of official recognition: RD 323/2003,of 14 March 2003 (BOE no 79 of 2 April2003)




Faculty of Law and Political Science

Students

Law Studies Political Sciences

1st Semester 2nd Semester 1st Semester 2nd Semester

2,034 2,353 174 212

Degree Holders

Law Studies Political Sciences

43 7

Students

Psychopedagogy Psychology


1,221 1,175 1,878 2,245

Degree Holders

Psychopedagogy Psychology

141 4

Teaching Staff

Head of Faculty

Antoni Badia Garganté


Josep M. Mominó de la IglesiaDirector of the Psychopedagogyprogramme

Montse Vall-llovera LlovetDirector of the Psychology programme

UOC’s Teaching StaffManuel Armayones Ruiz Elena Barberà GregoriGuillem Bautista Pérez

Mercè Boixadós AnglèsJosep M. Duart i MontoliuAnna Espasa RocaAnna M. Gálvez MozoAdriana Gil JuárezLourdes Guàrdia OrtizTeresa Guasch Pascual Eulàlia Hernández EncuentraJordi Planella RiberaModesta Pousada FernándezIsrael Rodríguez GiraltCarles Sigalés CondeLourdes Valiente BarrosJosep Vivas Elias


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Degree in Humanities (First-and-SecondCycle, and Second Cycle)





Degree in Catalan Language and Literature(First-and-Second Cycle, and Second Cycle)





Faculty of Humanities and Languageand Literature

Teaching Staff

Head of Faculty

Pere Fabra Abat


Albert Batlle Rubio Director of the Political Scienceprogramme

Raquel Xalabarder PlantadaDirector of the Law programme

UOC’s Teaching StaffRosa Borge Bravo

Ana Sofía Cardenal IzquierdoAgustí Cerrillo MartínezAna Delgado GarcíaRosa M. Fernández PalmaAntoni Galiano BarajasJordi Garcia AlberoMiquel Peguera PochLourdes Salomón SanchoVíctor Sánchez SánchezMònica Vilasau SolanaJosep Vivas Elias


Students

Humanities Catalan Language and Literature


1,504 1,584 320 355

Degree Holders

Humanities Catalan Language and Literaturea

41 6

Teaching Staff

Head of Faculty

Isidor Marí Mayans


Joan Pujolar CosDirector of the Language and Literatureprogramme

Miquel Strubell TruetaDirector of the Humanities programme

UOC’s Teaching StaffJoan Elies Adell PitarchPau Alsina GonzálezElisenda Ardèvol Piera

Federico Borges Saiz Laura Borràs CastanyerJoan Campàs MontanerCésar Carreras MonfortSalvador Climent RocaPauline ErnestNarcís Figueras CapdevilaJoan Fuster Sobrepere Joseph HopkinsRoger Martínez SanmartíMar Massanell MessallesGlòria Munilla CabrillanaFrancesc Núñez MosteoAgnès Vayreda Duran


Students

Technical Engineering Technical Engineering Computer Engineering Degreein Computer Management in Computer Systems in Multimedia Studies

1st Semester 2nd Semester 1st Semester 2nd Semester 1st Semester 2nd Semester 1st Semester 2nd Semester

1,794 1,835 2,588 2,732 508 564 697 616

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Degree Holders

Technical Engineering Technical Engineering Computer Engineering Degreein Computer Management in Computer Systems in Multimedia Studies

68 92 24 8

Teaching Staff

Head of Faculty

Rafael Macau Nadal


Ferran Giménez PradoDirector of the Distance Degree in Multimedia Studies

Maria Jesús Marco GalindoDirector of the Technical Engineering in Computer Management programme

Josep Prieto Blázquez Director of theTechnical Engineering in Computer Systems programme

Ramon Segret SalaDirector of the Computer Engineeringprogramme

UOC’s Teaching StaffCarlos Casado Martínez

César Córcoles BriongosAtanasi Daradoumis HaralabusAna Elena Guerrero RoldánIsabel Guitart Hormigo Montse Guitert Catasús Jordi Herrera JoancomartíJoan Manuel Marquès PuigJosep Maria Marco SimóAntoni Marín AmatllerDavid Megías JiménezJulià Minguillón AlfonsoEnric Mor PeraLaura Porta SimóM. Àngels Rius GavidiaElena Rodríguez GonzálezTeresa Romeu FontanillasEugènia Santamaria Pérez Jordi Serra i RuizMontse Serra VizernFrancesc Vallverdú Bayés


Technical Engineering in ComputerManagement





Technical Engineering in ComputerSystems





Computer Engineering (Second Cycle)





Degree in Multimedia Studies

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya’s OwnDegrees



Faculty of Computer Science and Multimedia

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Degree in Documentation (Second Cycle)

Date of official recognition: RD 1835/1999, of 3 December 1999(BOE no 306 of 23 December 1999)


To obtain this degree, 120 credits arerequired, of which 76.5 are compulsory,31.5 are optional and 12 are of freechoice/configuration.


Degree in Audio-visual Communication(Second Cycle)

Date of official recognition: RD 361/2003,of 28 March 2003 (BOE no 86-2003 of10 April 2003)


To obtain this degree, 124 credits arerequired, of which 75 are compulsory, 36are optional and 13 are of freechoice/configuration.


Faculty of Information andCommunications Sciences

Students

Documentation Audio-visual Communication


1,176 1,061 236 304

Degree Holders

Documentation Audio-visual Communication

151 --

Teaching Staff

Head of Faculty

Agustí Canals Parera


Eva Ortoll EspinetDirector of the Documentation programme

Toni Roig TeloDirector of the Audio-visualCommunication programme

UOC’s Teaching StaffJordi Alberich PascualGemma Andreu i PérezSònia Aran Rampsott Josep Cobarsí MoralesPablo Lara NavarraMario Pérez-Montoro GutiérrezVíctor Renobell SantarenFrancesc Saigi RubióSandra Sanz MartosImma Tubella Casadevall


Teaching Staff

Programme Director

Esther Pérez Martell

UOC’s Teaching StaffFrancesc González Reverté Joan Miquel Gomis


Diploma in Tourism

Date of official recognition: RD 397/2003of 4 April 2003 (BOE no 99-2003 of 25April 2003)




Tourism Programme

Students

Tourism


437 526

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Teaching Staff

Programme Director

Anna Busquets i Alemany

UOC’s Teaching StaffDavid Martínez Robles


A new programme structure was launchedthis academic year. Its teaching period runsfor three semesters, and the researchperiod is undertaken on the fourth and lastsemester. The offer during the teachingperiod includes three compulsory courses – one of which is of an introductory nature,and two of a methodological nature – and a wide offer of optional courses.

This new structure has further involvedchanges in the counselling function.Indeed, before the start of theprogramme’s first semester, a counsellorwill be initially assigned to the student tohelp him or her through the first contactswith the Virtual Campus. Later, during thesecond semester, a new counsellor isassigned to the student to monitor him orher through the rest of his or her progressthrough the programme.

As regards the production of researchassignments, the doctoral programmeobtained the following results:

A doctoral thesis with the title Waiting onthe Internet: A Holistic View of the OnlineWaiting Experience of E-consumers, read by Gerard Ryan, under the tuition of Dr Jordi Montaña.

Fifty-nine research assignments,distributed among the following UOCresearch spheres:

- Interdisciplinary analysis of theinformation society: 19 assignments

- Cyberculture: 13 assignments- Law and ICTs: 1 assignment- Knowledge Management: 6 assignments- E-governance: 3 assignments- E-learning: 10 assignments- The New Economy: 5 assignments- Information and Communications

Technologies: 2 assignments

Students

In December 2003, fifty-nine studentsfrom the second class of the programmeobtained the Diploma of AdvancedStudies (DEA). Out of the fifty-ninestudents, eleven obtained the approval of their PhD thesis project during this year.

At the same time, sixty-five doctoralstudents started their research period in the seminars of the programme’s thirdedition. Seventy-four students were

finishing their teaching-period courses ofthe third edition. And there are eighty-fourin the fourth edition of the teaching-periodcourses.

A PhD thesis was read in the month ofMay.

During the month of July, 205 newstudents started their activities with their initial counsellors in order to start on their programme courses inSeptember.

Degree in East Asian Studies(Second Cycle)

Date of official recognition: RD1262/2004, of 21 May 2004 (BOE no135-2004 of 4 June 2004)




East Asian Programme

Students

East Asia


191 252

Doctoral Programme on the Information and Knowledge Society

Third Cycle Studies

CASA ASIA

With the collaboration of:

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Teaching Staff

Manuel Castells OlivánScientific Director

Imma Tubella CasadevallScientific Director

Eduard Aibar PuentesProgramme Director

Teresa Sancho VinuesaAcademic Co-ordinator


Degree Holders Accumulated

Diploma in Advanced Studies 59 109

Doctors 1 2

(11.00%)

(9.00%)

(25.00%)

(11.00%)

(16.00%)

(9.00%)

(19.00%)

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

50

FirstEdition

SecondEdition

ThirdEdition

FourthEdition

Degrees of the Doctoral Students Starting on the Programme

Geographical Distribution of Doctoral Students

Natural Sciences, Maths and Medicine

Social and Political Sciences, Humanities

Law and Public Administration

Economics and Business Administration

Information Management, Communication and Journalism

Engineering and Architecture

Psychology and Pedagogy

Catalonia

Rest of Spain

Abroad

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During this teaching period, the structureof the knowledge areas is beingstructured in the way of trainingitineraries, to offer students the possibilityof reading for shorter and integratedprogrammes, facilitating their trainingprocess, getting them to enjoy a flexibleuse of their time.

This flexible and interactive learning,based on innovation, on development andon the acquisition of new competencies,is the key concept to guarantee personalgrowth and success in their organisationsto our participants.

The following is the profile of a postgraduateeducation student: 58% of the times he is aman of between 28 and 33 years of age,with a university degree in 88% of the casesand with working experience. He is acustomary Internet user and workspreferably in the services sector.

The periodical postgraduate teachingactivity is structured around the followingprogrammes:

Master’s Programmes

Higher level programmes geared to the development of competencies of a professional scope in a specificsphere. They provide high-level trainingand a global vision. They have a minimumteaching load of 30 credits. Theparticipant obtains a Master’s diploma.

Postgraduate Programmes

Higher level programmes geared toimproving competencies of a specificprofessional domain. They allow goingdeeper into the programme’s content anddeveloping a high degree of expertise.The postgraduate programmes have ateaching load not inferior to 15 credits.The participant obtains a postgraduatediploma.

Specialisation Programmes

These programmes study a specifictechnical subject matter in greater depth.They focus on the application of specificcompetencies in concrete professionalsfields. Their teaching load is generallyinferior to 15 credits. The participantobtains a postgraduate certificate.

Update Programmes

These programmes allow the participantto stay up to date and to recycle himselfor herself with regard to specific topics.They suggest innovations and new waysof facing and solving standard situationsin professional practice. Their teachingload is below 6 credits. The participantobtains a postgraduate certificate.

These 158 programmes, which arestructured into 21 Master’s itineraries,organise themselves around the main linesof knowledge of the University: Economicsand Business Studies; Humanities;Information and Communication Sciences;Computer Studies; Law Studies;Educational Sciences; Tourism; and EastAsian Studies.

Areas of teaching activity andprogrammes offered for the first time:

Enterprise and Organisations

- Area of Management Development:General Management (PDG) programme

- Area of Finances and EconomicManagement

- Area of Marketing: Master’s course inMarketing and Communication

- Area of Human Resources: Master’scourse in Human Resources Management

- Area of Logistics- Area of Prevention of Labour Risks- Area of Quality- Area of Mediation and Conflict

Resolution- Area of Co-operation- Area of Governability

Technological Environment

- Area of Information andCommunications Technologies

- Area of Computer Studies: InternationalMaster’s course on Free Software;Master’s course on Microsoft.net; andMaster’s course on CNAP-CISCOnetwork Administration

- Area of Multimedia Applications- Area of Information Management

The Information Society

- Area of Communication- Area of Publishing

Culture and Education

- Area of Training Development andEducational Technology: InternationalMaster’s Degree in E-learning

- Area of Humanities: Cultural andHeritage Management

Sectorial Areas

- Area of Tourism: Hotel Management- Health Area: Health Management and

Mental Health

Asian Studies

- East Asia: Master’s course

Postgraduate Education

Postgraduate Studies

The UOC’s Postgraduate Educationactivity for the academic year 2003-2004revolved around an offer of Master’s andpostgraduate programmes based on the development of the standardcompetencies of professional roles in the production and services sectors alonglines of knowledge and experience.Depending on the type of programme, the management of this university activityis carried out from the Management ofContinuing Training and of PostgraduateEducation.

Similarly, within the framework of theUniversity’s internationalisation strategy,and with particular reference to thepostgraduate studies, two internationalMaster’s courses have been created thatare in keeping with the University’s line ofknowledge about e-learning. On the onehand, the application of ICTs to educationand training; on the other, Free Software.

These programmes have their owncharacteristics:

- They are of a transverse and globalnature -knowledge is useful in varioussocial and cultural contexts.

- They count on the active participation of the University’s faculty and the management staff.

- They are representative of theaccumulated knowledge andexperience.

- Students from various Latin Americancountries take part in them: Mexico,Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Argentina and Venezuela.

- Various authors and university lecturerswho hold collaboration agreements withthe UOC take part in them.

Developed Programmes

Master’s Programmes 35

Postgraduate Programmes 55

Specialisation Programmes 64

Update Programmes 4

Total 158

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Participants

Master’s / Postgraduate / Specialisation / Update Programmes 2,773

Universitat Oberta d’Estiu (Summer Open University) 1,269

Universidad Virtual de Verano (Virtual Summer University) 629

Winter courses 457

Total 5,128

On 17th April took place at the INEFC the graduation ceremony of the studentsin Postgraduate Education. The eventwas inaugurated by the Rector GabrielFerraté, and was presided over by JosepMaria Rañé, the Catalan Minister ofEmployment and Industry. Josep Fígols,the Director-General of the Microsystemsoffice in Barcelona, acted as Sponsor.

Similarly, Postgraduate Educationorganises for the months of February and July a number of two-creditprogrammes, structured around the summer and winter universities.

Universitat Oberta d’Estiu (Summer Open University)

The Universitat Oberta d’Estiu (UOd’E)(Summer Open University) offers a widerange of courses directed toward personswho may wish to use the summer toobtain training in the use of a virtualenvironment with multimedia tools. Thesecourses open up new lines of action andof professional development, and use themost advanced resources.

A total of 53 courses were offered, eachone lasting 30 hours and being worth

During this academic year, the number of participants in the various trainingactivities has been 5,128, distributed in the following way:

2 credits recognised as free-choice creditsfor UOC students and for the otheruniversities forming part of the summeroffer of the Joan Lluís Vives Institute.

The methodology of the courses followsthe UOC’s pedagogical model: the promotion of personal study and, at the same time, of co-operative work.Students take part in forums and debatesrelating to the content of each course, as well as in the carrying out of activities,and in the consultation and resolution of doubts.

The educational offer for the summer 2004was made within the following areas:

- Area of Economics, Business, and Law:14 programmes

- Area of Humanities: 11 programmes- Area of Educational Sciences and

Psychology: 8 programmes- Area of New Technologies and the

Internet: 16 programmes- Area of Multimedia: 4 programmes

Universidad Virtual de Verano (Virtual Summer University)

Winter Courses

This year, the third edition of theUniversidad Virtual de Veranoconsolidated its position. These summercourses have been done in Spanish and

they have the same characteristics as theUOd’E as regards the number of creditsrequired for each course, the evaluationsystem, and the general functioning.

During the month of February and forthe second consecutive year the offer of 23two-credit programmes was consolidated

followed by 457 students (96% wereUOC community students, and 4% werestudents of new incorporation).

Courses offered 23

Number of students that took part in the courses 1,269

Number of participating students belonging to the UOC community 83%

Students who have successfully completed the courses 79.90%

Courses offered 23

Students taking part in the courses 629

Students enrolled for the first time 88%

Students who have successfully completed the courses 80.92%

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The UOC is the only university inCatalonia that offers students three

access opportunities to courses for people over 25 years of age.

The following are the three specialitiesoffered in the higher education courses:

- Secretarial Studies (SEC)- Commercial Management

and Marketing (GCM)- Administration of Computer Systems

(ASI)

This offer’s sphere of action is limited to the territory of Catalonia, and for thisreason Catalan is used in the didacticmaterials, the Virtual Campus, etc.

The number of new students matriculatedand of students who have followed the courses has been distributed in thefollowing way:

Pre-university Training

Course to Prepare the ExaminationEntrance Exam for People over 25 Yearsof Age

The basic aim of the access course to the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya forpeople over 25 is that students may attaina learning that may allow them to passthe UOC entry exams and, at the sametime, join this university community in asuccessful way.

In the 2003-2004 period three accesscourses in Catalan and two in Spanishwere organised for people over 25 yearsof age.

The rate of students who havesuccessfully passed the exams reached 80.43% of all that took them.

High Specialist Programme

The High Specialist Programmes(formerly, higher education courses) arestudies of higher vocational training whichfollow the pedagogical model of theUniversitat Oberta de Catalunya.

Students matriculated to the course

Faculties November November March May June Total2003 2003* 2004 2004* 2004

Business Studies 142 31 84 14 71 342

Law Studies 76 16 45 22 54 213

Humanities 73 -- 52 -- 54 179

Technical Engineering inComputer Management 97 41 63 28 52 281and Systems

Catalan Language and Literature 12 -- 8 -- 4 24

Psychology 149 21 81 17 88 356

Tourism Programme 42 6 21 5 28 102

Total 591 115 354 86 351 1,497

* Access to studies at the Latin American campus

Secretarial Studies GCM ASI Total

October 2003 - February 2004 19 19 25 63

March 2004 - July 2004 9 4 19 32

Total 28 23 44 95


October 2003 - February 2004 67 62 123 252

March 2004 - July 2004 48 51 123 222

Total 115 113 246 474

The fifth edition took place of the coursethat gives preparation for access to higherdegree courses for persons over 20 yearsof age.

The following is the number of specialitiesfor which preparation is offered:

- Secretarial Studies (SEC)- Commercial Management and Marketing

(GCM)- Administration of Computer Systems (ASI)

Access course to higher degree coursesfor persons over 20 years of age

Students who have followed the courses


October 2003 - April 2004 -- 6 9 15

New students matriculated

Students who have followed the courses

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- Higher Training in Accountancy- Marketing- Person in charge of sales and marketing- Person in charge of integral logistics and

purchases- Person in charge of merchandising and

POS promotion

- Person in charge of commercialresearch and planning

- Person in charge of prevention of labour risks

- Person in charge of public relations- Person in charge of administrative

management

Higher training courses for professionals

During the academic year 2003-2004new courses of university extension werecreated in Spanish (CFSPE) to be addedto those that had been created theprevious year and given in Catalan(CFSP). The following are the newcourses:

CFSP CFSPE Total

September 2003 - July 2004 212 511 723

UOC Methodology

The UOC’s base is a distance educationmodel that focuses on students that usethe information and communicationstechnologies (ICTs) to place within theirreach a whole series of spaces, tools and resources that facilitate to them the communication and the activity, notonly in regard to their learning process,but also to the development of theiracademic life. The UOC is geared tocatering for students’ personal andprofessional needs, in keeping with theevolution of the technological context, the needs of the business world and of society in global terms.

In this respect, and taking into accountthe student profile and the characteristicsof the knowledge society, the immediateaccess to information, the fluidity incommunication, networking, and so on,the UOC guides its educational modelaccording to four basic principles:

- Flexibility: the facilities to follow one’sown learning pace - in evaluation, inpermanence, in the degree system, and so on.

- Co-operation: the generation ofknowledge acting in collaboration.

- Personalisation: the individual attentionreceived by the student that takes intoaccount his or her personal characteristics,needs and interests, and so on.

- Interaction: the ease of communicationbetween people and resources.

As a model that revolves around the student, it places the teaching and learning process in the centre and,around it, there are the elements thatrelate to this process in a more or lessdirect way, but that form part of the education community, such as thecounselling session, the virtual library, the communications areas (forums and notice-boards), the spaces madeavailable for student associations, the virtual Secretary’s Office forconsultations and for carrying outacademic transactions, among others.

The basic units of the learning processare the subjects. The training activitytakes place in what is known as virtualclassroom.

The virtual classroom is an environmentcontaining information, tools, spaces andfunctionalities allowing the developmentof training activities and the organisation

of the collection of agents and elementsthat form a part of it: the tutor, the group,the continuing evaluation, the teachingplan and the materials, the resources andthe sources of information.

The sphere of inter-relation amongstudents and faculty exists beyond thelearning process - a process that takes

place in various spaces on the VirtualCampus and extends, at the same time,to all the people that are in the UOC andwho participate in it in one way oranother.

Students

The learning material is the centralelement of the subject. In addition to amaterial containing basic information andthe content of the subject, the student,through the classroom and the VirtualLibrary is offered a wide scope of theresources he or she may need in order

to consult information, conduct activities,and contrast and ground the knowledgeattained. In this sense, he or she haswithin her reach readings, articles, casesto be solved, bibliography, Internetaddresses, access to databases, and soon.

The evolution of the Virtual Campusduring this academic year has focused on two basic aspects:

- The automation of the classroom spaces.- The technological improvement

of the system in order to optimise its performance.

On the other hand, work has beenundertaken with the classrooms structureand interfaces. Through the usabilitymethodologies that ensure student and tutorsatisfaction, the agenda and the teachingplan have been automated in order tofacilitate the tutor’s task and ensure data

availability on the part of the student. Onthe other hand, the resource spaces inthe classrooms have been automated by having them linked to the Library so asto facilitate students access to resources,and to lecturers their management.

The base system of the Virtual Campus,based on Java, CORBA and Oracle, has undergone various performance testthis academic year until providing serviceto 2,500 students simultaneously. Thesystem’s stability has been above 99%during this academic year, so that onemay consider that the Virtual Campus is a high availability system.

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Learning Materials

Virtual Campus

New course subjects

1st Semester 2nd Semester Total

Recognised Degrees Main Campus 43 39 82

Latin American Campus 39 54 93

Total 175

Total number of subjects offered

1st Semester 2nd Semester Total

Recognised Degrees Main Campus 485 506 991

Latin American Campus 273 320 593

Total 1,584

Materials of new elaboration

CD-ROM CD-ROM Book/ Paper WebSoftware Manual

Economics and Business Studies 5 -- -- 36 26

Psychology and Educational Sciences 2 -- -- 25 17

Law and Political Science -- -- -- 16 4

Humanities and Language and Literature 9 1 -- 4 6

Computer Science and Multimedia 2 10 -- 32 5

Information and Communication Sciences 5 -- -- 18 16

East Asian Studies -- -- 3 10 2

Total 23 11 3 141 76

Connections during the academic year10,604,095

Weekly connections per student 6

Total connection time during the year (in minutes) 393,273,452

Daily connection time per student (in minutes) 33

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During the academic year 2003-2004, thelevel of satisfaction of UOC studentsremained stable, with values nearing 4points over 5, according to the evaluationsurvey of the various elements of thepedagogical model conducted at the endof each semester.

As for general satisfaction, concerningofficial studies in Catalan, the globalvalues are given below, with anexplanation of each concept:

Institutional Evaluation


Enjoyment 4 4.1

Belonging 3.7 3.8

Compensation of dedication 3.9 3.9

Benefit perception 4 4

As regards Faculties, the followingevaluation elements were taken intoconsideration:

- Suitability: adaptation of content in thestudy plan to the expectationsgenerated, taking into account theobjectives set, the level of in-depthstudy, and the difficulty of the subject.

- Applicableness: basically, the use of the content in the professional,academic and personal environment of the student.

And the following were the results:


Suitability 3.9 3.9

Applicableness 3.5 3.5

Regarding satisfaction with the elementssupporting study, the main results werealso placed around 4 over 5. Specifically,the concepts evaluated in this sectionwere the following:

- Teaching action: Student satisfactionwith regard to the actions of tutors and counsellors.

- Communication: Valuing of the variousrelationships and interactions offered tothe student by the virtual community,and of the various means and resourcesto obtain them.

- Learning resources: Methodologicalelements with the function of facilitatinglearning (activities of various types, casestudies, readings, links, etc.), as well asthe didactic material itself, be it in digitalor paper support.

- Evaluation: Valuation made by thestudent regarding the evaluation systemused, as far as its suitability, coherenceand feedback obtained.

- Virtual learning environment: studentsatisfaction regarding the information,the services and the functionalitiesoffered by the environment.


Teaching action 4.3 4.3

Communication 3.6 3.6

Learning resources 3.7 3.8

Evaluation 4.1 4.1

Virtual learning environment 3.9 3.9

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Students 18,404 20,618

Number of replies 4,096 (22%) 3,682 (18%)

Type of sampling Voluntary Voluntary

Margin of error 1.38% 1.49%

Questionnaire format Web Web

Length of the publication January 2004 July 2004

Place of publication Message to matriculated students

Technical details of the surveys

Satisfaction Evaluation

In 2002, the UOC had the idea of revisingand improving its student satisfactionevaluation system. To this end, a deeprevision took place in order to adapt the questionnaires of satisfaction to thesenew evaluation needs, taking intoconsideration the various elements of the pedagogical model.

In addition to all this revising process, an external firm specialising in opinionresearch centralised the gathering ofreplies and their exploitation for the lastthree semesters.

The measure of student satisfaction forms part of the UOC’s methodologicalcommand structure, which also includesthe measure of the various indicators of academic performance and the degreeof continuity in the faculties and in the institution. The gathering of all thisinformation in a periodical manner and the later analyses will enable us to have a command box for decision makinggeared to improving the University’smethodological model.

The Virtual Library During this academic year a newapplication for the management of the loanof documents has been launched allowinga reduction in the time of management of the petitions received and a substantialreduction in the number of incidents.

Similarly, through the digital resourcesmanager, new versions of the virtual

shelves have been implemented(currently, Classroom resources) in XMLformat facilitating its administration andconfiguration in the various classroomssimultaneously. 68% of the subjectstaught at the UOC have this space andprovide access to more than 8,000electronic information resources.

Use of the Virtual Library

Users who have made use of the Librarythrough the Virtual Campus

1,346,864 91.81%

Users

Users who have contacted the supportlibrary services in order to use theirinfrastructure, consult material, or takematerial on loan.

Consultations made in the various spacesof the Virtual Library totalled 16,247,906,an increase of 22.64% with respect to the academic year 2002-2003.

119,404 8.14%

Users

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Services

Thanks to the collaboration with the teaching staff of Audio-visualCommunication, a new news service on this topic has been launched, thanksto which any member of the UOCcommunity can be informed of the mainnews that are taking place in the audio-visual industry (TV, radio, film companies),the leading festivals and awards in thefield, the legal modifications regulating the sector, and so on.

The following newsletters were alsolaunched:

- BIeL (Boletín Informativo en e-Learning),exclusive for participants in the international Master’s course in e-learning, compiling weekly news and articles about content taught during this Master’s.

- E-learning: Organización y Gestión,exclusive for participants in theUNESCO e-learning Chair. This weeklyservice compiles specialised and high-level academic information aboutthe specific issues of the seminar.

The total number of subscriptions to the customised services was 36,602,corresponding to 11,437 users, with atotal of 1,490,437 information releases.

On the other hand, the loan norms havebeen modified to provide more facilities to users and to increase the use of the bibliographic material. The totalsum of documents provided was 71,119,a 35.73% more than the previous year.

Library Holdings

As regards physical documents, duringthis academic year the UOC Cataloguehas listed 60,064 items that refer tobooks, journals, CD, video-tapes, and soon. A new service has been created todisseminate all the incorporated novelties.With monthly periodicity, it allows the userto know which are the documentsincorporated.

As for the documents in digital support,the volume of practical assignments andend-of-degree assignments of variousfaculties has been increased;assignments from the following facultiesare now available: Psychopedagogy,Psychology, Humanities, CatalanLanguage and Literature, and TechnicalEngineering in Computer Systems and Management.

Subscriptions have been taken to newinformation sources, such as themultidisciplinary database FuenteAcadémica, providing the complete textof more than 150 electronic journals ofrecognised professional and academicprestige from the various areas of studyof the University, in Spanish. Thedatabase that provides access to thecomplete text of 33 journals published bythe American Institute of Physics (AIP)and the American Physical Society (APS),among other institutions.

Along this line, the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, through the Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT), subscribed forthe whole scientific and technological

community of the state the access to the Web of Knowledge of the ISIThomson company. The ISI Web ofKnowledge hosts high-quality researchcontent and it included fundamentalacademic and research information.Among the content provided there isScience, Social Sciences and Arts &Humanities, Citation Index, CurrentContents, Journal Citation Reports, ISIProceedings, Derwent Innovations Indexand ISI Essential Science Indicators.

Internal Projects

The international Master’s course in FreeSoftware, and the international Master’scourse in E-learning have relied on theVirtual Library to elaborate theclassroom’s resources space. Spacescustomised to the needs of each moduleor subject have been created. Togetherwith the authors of the didactic materials,the best resources on the subject havebeen selected and organised so thataccess would be fast and simple.

The UOC Library takes part in the UOCUNESCO E-learning Chair through theCentre for E-learning Digital Resources, a dynamic and virtual environment whereare integrated the content and theservices focusing on the sphere oforganisation and management of virtuallearning, and which it also goes deeper in aspects referring to:

- Educational Methodology andInnovation through the use of virtuallearning in the teaching/learningprocesses.

- Technology related to virtual learning,with emphasis on the analysis andcomparison of platforms and the usemade of them by educationalinstitutions.

The first phase of the ARC@ project(Accés i recuperació de continguts enlínia) has finished. It identifies the didacticmaterials of the recognised degrees, thetreatment of the said materials, andmakes the adaptation of the visualisation.In all, the complete text of 171,422 pageswas indexed, with a total of 21.74 GB(gigabytes) of information

Agreements

During this academic year, collaborationagreements were signed with the librariesbelow. They are added to the agreementsexisting with other libraries and entities, to improve the service to users and to dojoint work in issues of common interest:

- University of A Coruña - University of Las Palmas de Gran

Canaria

So currently there are agreements withthe following entities:

- Open University Library- University of Barcelona- University of Girona - Rovira i Virgili University- University of Lleida - Polytechnic University of Catalonia- Complutense University of Madrid- University of the Balearic Islands- Jaume I University- Associació de Mestres Rosa Sensat- Asia House

- Col·legi d’Enginyers Tècnics Industrialsde Barcelona (CETIB)

External Projects

The Library continues its participation inthe COINE (Cultural Objects in NetworkedEnvironments) European research project,a research and development projectwithin the IST (Information SocietyTechnologies) programme of theEuropean Commission. The project iscurrently testing the prototype, and it is at this stage that the UOC Library hasreached agreements with the Taradellpublic library belonging to the Servei de Biblioteques de la Diputació deBarcelona; the Museu d’Història de la Immigració de Catalunya; and the Tarragona public library. Thesecollaborating entities take part in theproject through their users as creators of online local history.

External Projection

After the workshop organised in 2002 at the premises of the Open University,and as laid down in the collaborationagreement between these two entities,the UOC Library run the II Workshop, this time under the title, “Els centresd’informació sota indicadorsempresarials: avaluació i valoració de les tendències actuals”.

On the other hand, and thanks to theparticipation of one of the members ofthe UOC Library in the group Bibliotecasy Propiedad Intelectual of the FederaciónEspañola de Sociedades de Archivística,Biblioteconomia, Documentación yMuseística (FESABID), the evolution of the future legal changes in the field ofcopyright continues to be monitored, andthe possible effects within the frameworkof the services offered by the Library.

Participation in the Dutch Zwolle grouphas continued - this group developscriteria to implement copyrightmanagement policies of scientific and academic work in the universityenvironment.

During the month of May a technologicaland documentary audit was jointlyconducted with the operating group fromComputer Management Applications atthe Supreme Courts of Justice of CostaRica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvadorand Guatemala, as part of the CEFCCEFCA (Centro de Estudios deFormación ConstitucionalCentroamericana) project leading to the installation of the digital resourcemanager developed by the Library as atool to manage the existing digitalresources in the said high tribunals.

The UOC Library also forms part of theConsorci de Biblioteques Universitàriesde Catalunya (CBUC) and of the RedEspañola de Bibliotecas Universitarias(REBIUN). The Virtual Library took partwith the Network in the strategic plan,promoting the development of ICTs inLibraries and providing support for theirimplantation and maintenance. Finally, the UOC Library forms part of theExcellence Network in Digital Libraries(DELOS).

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University Life

Face-to-face Meetings

Face-to-face meetings constitute the rightspace for bringing students and teachingstaff together at the beginning and at theend of each semester.

Presentation meetings take place at thestart of each semester with the academicobjective of having the tutors set out theteaching plan of the various subjects.

Synthesis meetings take place at the endof each semester with the academicobjective of allowing the tutors to evaluate the development of subjects over

the semester and to provide their latestsuggestions as to examinations.

The content of the meetings includes anacademic programme of counselling andtutoring sessions, a programme ofcomplementary activities made up ofworkshops and cultural activities, andvarious usually virtual services at theUniversity, such as: Computer Assistance,Student Services, Graduate and Friendsof the UOC Club, CommunityGalvanisation, and so on.

One of the novelties of the meetings wasthe new format of the counselling sessions. Previously, each counsellor met

his or her students, but as of this coursecounselling sessions are shared, such thatin a single room three or four counsellorsmeet their respective students. In this way,the sessions become more profitable andproductive for all concerned.

The academic programme of the meetingsreceives a stable attendance ofapproximately 35% of the total number of students enrolled. The programme of complementary activities is also wellattended. Thus, presentation meetingsbring together some seven thousandpeople, and the synthesis meetings, somesix thousand. These data include students,counsellors, tutors, and lecturers.

Presentation meeting, first semester

Venue: Autonomous University of Barcelona, Bellaterra CampusDate: 20th September 2003

Colloquia

- Faculty of Economics and BusinessStudies: “The social economy in theeconomy of knowledge” by ArmandVilaplana, President of the Federació deSocietats Laborals de Catalunya(FESALC, Federation of LabourSocieties of Catalonia), member of theConsell de Treball Economic i Social deCatalunya (Economic and Social LabourCouncil of Catalonia) and Counsellor ofthe Caixa Catalunya Savings Bank.

- Faculty of Law and Political Science:“Which Statute for Catalonia?”, round-table discusión with Ramon Camp (CiU),Josep Maria Carbonell (PSC-CpC),Dolors Nadal (PP), Joan Ridao (ERC),and Màrius Garcia Andrade (IC-Verds).

- Faculty of Information and CommunicationSciences: “New formats, genres, and meansin contemporary audiovisuals” by JordiSánchez, Deputy Director of the SitgesInternational Festival of Catalan Cinema.

- Faculty of Psychology and EducationalSciences: “And afterwards, what? Threeapproaches to the employmentopportunities of UOC Psychology

students”, a round- table discussionwith Fèlix Guillén, Dolors Rogríguez, andMiquel Torregrosa.

- Faculty of Humanities and CatalanLanguage and Literature: “DiabolicCabaret”, a stage show by Beth Escudéand Isabelle Bres.

- East Asian Studies: “The situation of East Asian studies in Spanishuniversities”, by Òscar Pujol, Director of the educational programmes of CasaÀsia (Asia House).

- Tourism Studies: “A new paradigm intourism”, by Javier Gallego, Director-General of the THEMIS Foundation,World Tourism Organisation.

- Chat session with the GUPLUassociation (Grup d’Usuaris i Usuàriesde Programari Lliure de la UOC, UOCFree Software Users Group). The chatwas given by Javier Martí Pintanel,founding member of GUPLU , and byother members of the same association.

Cultural Activities

- Award of the Virtual Creativity Prizes.

- Cinema at the UOC. The “Cinema andPolitics” Cycle: Citizen Bob Roberts, TheSmoke Screen and April.

- Exhibition organised by Campus for Peace: “Kosovo: A look at the heartof the Balkans”.

Counselling and tutoring sessions

Tutoring sessions 979

Subjects 483

Shared counselling sessions 97

Reception of the face-to-face meeting on the Bellaterra campus of the UAB

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Workshops

- Searching for information in a virtualenvironment

- Internet I. Introduction and communication- Internet II. Services- Planning your study time- Juridical databases

- PowerPoint workshop. Basic level- PowerPoint workshop. Advanced level- The Virtual Library- Searching for information in databases- Introduction to digital photography- Shiatsu massage workshop- Introductory workshop on computer

security

Colloquia

- Lecture on the Argentine crisis, byArcadi Oliveres, President of Justice andPeace and lecturer in AppliedEconomics at the AutonomousUniversity of Barcelona.

Cultural Activities

- Audiovisual session on travel:“Argentina, Nature in liberty”.This activity, linked to the Campus for Peace, is a solidarity initiative of the UOC. It is based on the fact of collaborating in the campaign for sponsoring Argentine children,organised by Cormparte.

- Films at the meeting. Cycle of Argentine cinema: GarajeOlimpo (Garage Olympus) and Lugarescomunes (Commonplaces).

- Presentation of the winter courses of the FOCUS programme.

Synthesis meeting, first semester

Venue: Autonomous University of Barcelona, Bellaterra CampusDate: 20th December 2003


Tutoring sessions 979

Subjects 483


Services

Blood donations 35

Children in the ludoteca (Play Area) 115

Library Loans 79

Returns 154

Total workshops 12

Total sessions 35

Total attendance 1,365

Workshops

- Exam preparation- Searching for information in databases- Searching for information in a virtual

environment- The Virtual Library- Internet I. Introduction and communication

- Internet II. Services- Introduction to digital photography- Shiatsu massage workshop I- Shiatsu massage workshop II- Music on the Internet- Introduction to digital video editing- Effective presentations

Total workshops 12

Total sessions 27

Total attendance 395

Services

Blood donations 22


Library Loans 19

Returns 83

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Presentation meeting, second semester

Venue: Autonomous University of Barcelona, Bellaterra CampusDate: 28th February 2004

Workshops

- Planning your study time- Searching for information in a virtual

environment- The Virtual Library- Internet I. Introduction and

communication- Internet II. Services

- Internet music- E-books- Introduction to digital video editing- Educational resources on the Internet- PowerPoint workshop- Speaking about genetically-modified

substances- Educational project for students with

chronic illnesses

Total workshops 12

Total sessions 23

Total attendance 1,022


Tutoring sessions 1,027

Subjects 417


Colloquia

- Faculty of Humanities and Languageand Literature “The rules for eludingwords” by Dr Badia i Margarit.

- Faculty of Information andCommunication Sciences: “Ethics ofinformation / Ethics of communication: a dialogue between two approaches to ethical questions in the informationand communication sciences”, by the journalist Salvador Alsius and LydiaSánchez, counsellor at the UOC.

- Faculty of Economics and BusinessStudies: “The network firm in Catalonia”,by Jordi Vilaseca, Head of the Faculty of Economics and Business Studiesat the UOC.

- Faculty of Law and Political Science:“The challenges of the administration ofjustice in Spain”, by Josep Alfons LópezTena, member of the Spanish GeneralCouncil of the Judiciary.

- Faculty of Psychology and EducationalSciences: “Applications of psychologyand its reflection in the cinema”, by Dr Florentino Moreno Martín,Lecturer in Social Psychology and ViceDean of External Relations in the Facultyof Psychology at the ComplutenseUniversity of Madrid.

- East Asian Studies: “Business in EastAsia and basic aspects of interculturalnegotiation”, by Amadeu JensanaTanehashi, Director of the BusinessCircle of Casa Àsia (Asia House).

- Tourism Studies: “Leisure facilities andterritory. Conditioning factors andeffects”, by Dr Salvador Anton Clavé,

Head of the School of Tourism andLeisure at the Rovira i Virgili University.

- Presentation of the development co-operation and volunteeringprogramme of the UOC. Informationsession in which were presented the co-operation projects that the Campusfor Peace carries out in association with other NGOs and non-profitorganisations.

- Presentation of practical assignments inPsychopedagogy. Roser Piñol Rubio, Maite Alquézar Civit,M. Rosario Gistas Casamián and JoanBramona were the students whopresented a project in this session.

Within the framework of this sessionthere were also activities related directlyto the professional practice ofPsychopedagogy. Presentation of theLacenet Network, an example of aninstitution in which students can carry outtheir practical work, by its President, M,Roser Torrescana. Presentation of thejournal Àmbits de Psicopedagogia(Spheres of Psychopedagogy) of theAssociació Catalana de Professionals delsEquips d’Assessorament Psicopedagògic(Catalan Association of Professionals ofPsychopedagogy Assessment Teams),ACEAP. Presentation of the book entitledIntervención psicopedagógica encontextos diversos (PsychopedagogicalIntervention in a number of contexts) byProfessor Francesc Josep Marro Fantova.

- Session on doctoral theses currently inprogress. The doctoral programme onthe Information and Knowledge Societyof the University organised a session ondoctoral theses currently in progresswithin this programme.

Cultural Activities

- Cinema at the UOC: “New narrativeforms of the cinema” Cycle. Adaptation(VOSE), Memento (VOSE), andMulholland Drive (VOSE).

- PSiNET “How to look for informationabout health on the Internet”. The Health Psychology and Internetresearch group PSiNET collected datafor a UOC community pilot study of the strategies used for searching forinformation about health on the Internet.

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Services

Blood donations 32


Library Loans 84

Returns 147

Synthesis meeting, second semester

Venue: Autonomous University of Barcelona, Bellaterra CampusDate: 5th June 2004


Tutoring sessions 1,027

Subjects 417


Colloquia

- Campus for Peace: Presentation of the co-operation project and the volunteering programme of the UOC

- Chat about corporate social responsibility.Within the framework of the Campus for Peace programme, the Faculty ofEconomics and Business Studies of the UOC organised a chat called“Corporate social responsibility: general

aspects and the present situation inSpain”, by the NGO Economists withoutFrontiers.

- Presentation of the journal La FinestraDigital (The Digital Window) by a groupof Audiovisual Communicationsstudents of the UOC who created it as a potential platform for learning and enjoyment while talking about whatthey like most: the audiovisual world.

Workshops

- The Virtual Library - Searching for information in general

databases - Searching for information in a virtual

environment - Digital photography

- Internet I. Introduction andcommunication

- Internet II. Services- Shiatsu massage- Examination preparation- Digital video- Effective presentations- Tax forum

Total workshops 11

Total sessions 24

Total attendance 356

Cultural Activities

- Cinema at the UOC. Samples ofcontemporary videoclips: Michel Gondry,Spike Jonze, and Chris Cunningham.

- PSiNET: Who are you? What’s yourlifestyle? Lifestyles of Internet users.Online questionnaire.

The Website of the Meeting

The Website of the Meeting is the basiccommunications tool that allows theUniversity to inform all enrolled studentsbeforehand about the sessions that aregoing to take place. It informs them aboutthe day and the venue for the meeting,how to get there, the academic

programme, the activities and workshops,as well as the various services availableon the spot during the days in question.In this academic year the usability criteriaof the website of the meeting weremaintained, but with a new design thatallows all the available information to befound more readily.

Services

Blood donations 19


Library Loans 25

Returns 86

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The Journal of the Meeting

For another academic year, the Journal of the Meeting has proved itself to be acommunications and participation tool for the whole UOC community. It is apublication of sixteen pages in length with a print-run of 10,000 journals per

meeting, in the format of a universitynewspaper. It is published in response to each of the face-to-face meetings. The Journal of the Meeting containsinformation about the various aspects ofthe meeting: maps, activity grids, articlesrelating to the colloquia or to otheractivities carried out, and so on.

First semester 21,421

Second semester 18,271

Course total 39,692

Student Services and Care

Student Services

Students at the Universitat Oberta deCatalunya have a Student Care Serviceorganised into various areas andinformation services. When teachingactivity starts, students can have accessto the whole volume of information whichthe UOC makes available, especially inthe Student Care and Secretary’s Officeareas. The Student Care area brings

together the channels necessary for students to be able to communicatewith the University regarding non-academicmatters, in other words, management,services, or information. Finally, the Secretary’s Office is the area wherestudents may consult and sort out forthemselves all the issues that may affectthem throughout their academic life.

Publication of the Students’ Guide

This academic year 2003-2004 , thestudents who began their studies at theUOC obtained the new welcome materialthat the UOC had elaborated to presentthe University, namely, the Students’Guide, which contains an institutionalpresentation of the University, somematters relating to the academic sphere,and other material to do with the servicesand resources that are made available to students.

This guide seeks to explain the mainelements of the educational model, to describe the teaching objectives of recognised degrees, to provideinformation about the various possibilitiesthat students have for personal contactand for participation in the universitycommunity, and to present the mainservices the University provides.

Academic Information on the Campus

In the 2003-2004 academic year anumber of improvements were made inthe presentation of Campus informationand also in regard to the personalisationof the academic content addressed tostudents doing recognised degrees.

These improvements consisted in theapplication of a new design to such areasas the Home Page of the Campus orvarious sections of the Virtual Secretary’sOffice, the use of graphic elements to

reinforce the arrangement of the material,the adaptation of the structure of certainpages, and a clearer organisation andhierarchical structuring of information indifferent areas of the Virtual Campus.

In regard to the personalisation ofinformation, the Secretary’s OfficeNewsletter began to be more importantas an informational resource linked to the main academic processes, andmonth by month it obtained moresubscribers among the students doingrecognised degrees.

Consultation response service

Consultations attended to

Non-teaching issues 2,060

Teaching issues 243

Total 2,303

Incidents attended to by the Campus 9,834

Incidents attended to by telephone 36,442

Total consultations 46,276

Computer Assistance Service Incidents attended to

Student inquiry, suggestion, andcomplaint service

3,353

Subscriptions to the Secretary’s OfficeNewsletter*

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Labour Exchange

The UOC considers it important to promotethe services that bring students into contactwith the labour market, and for this reason,in the 2003-2004 academic year theLabour Exchange continued to foment theeducational co-operation agreements thathad first appeared in December 2002.

The objective of these agreements is tobring students into contact with the world of work, to offer them the chance ofobserving professional models in order

to undertake practical learning in theiractivities of choice, and to provide themwith an environment in which they mayapply the theoretical knowledge acquiredin their studies to a real situation.

Collaboration agreements were signed withtwo-hundred-and-fifty institutions and firms,and a total of two-hundred-and-forty-eightstudents participated in practical sessions.

In this academic year, one-hundred-and-ninety-eight new agreements were signedwith firms and institutions interested in

collaborating with the UOC, and thesebrought in two-hundred-and-twenty students.

In order to facilitate the follow-up ofapplications for practical sessions, areasof the Campus were improved and othernew areas created in the Faculty ofPsychology and Psychopedagogy.

The high degree of acceptance of theservice allowed the creation of a networkof collaborating firms able to respondsatisfactorily to the needs of the studentbody of the UOC community.

The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya offerswithin the Virtual Campus an informationarea for each association and the possibilityfor each one of hosting its own web pages.

It also offers generally-available exchangemailboxes for all associations, and othermailboxes with access restricted toassociations’ members only.

Promotion of Associationism The UOC places at the disposal of theuniversity community the associationismservice that promotes and managesapplications for the formation ofassociations, foments the appearance of specific-interest groups, and providesassessment at all times.

In the course of this academic year a newassociation was created, La Finestra Digital(The Digital Window). The objective of thisassociation is to publish in a website ajournal of the same name on audiovisualsubjects - one addressed to students of Audiovisual Communications and toenthusiasts of the audiovisual world. In addition, the association will dedicateitself to organising activities intended to elaborate material for the journal, tointerchanging knowledge among the members, and to experimentation.

The following associations are currentlyregistered:

- Associació d’Estudiants de la UOC (AEUOC,Association of Students of the UOC)

- Associació de les Illes Balears i lesPitiüses (ABIPI, Association of theBalearic Isles and the Pitiüses)

- Associació Professional de DocentsTelemàtics de Catalunya - UOC(APDTC-UOC, Professional Associationof Telematic Teachers of Catalonia-UOC)

- AtletiUOC

- Coordinadora d’Estudiants dels PaïsosCatalans (CEPC-UOC, Co-ordinatingGroup of Students of the CatalonianCountries-UOC)

- Club de Rugbi UOC (CRUOC, UOCRugby Club)

- Grup d’Usuaris i Usuàries de ProgramariLliure de la UOC (GUPLU, UOC Groupof Free Software Users)

- The Digital Window - Oberta al País Valencià (OPV)- Associació d’Estudiants de Doctorat de

la UOC (Paradigma) (Association ofDoctoral Programme Students of the UOC)

- Plataforma Antiguerra de la UOC(PAUOC, UOC Anti-war Platform)

- Associació d’Estudiants de Documentacióde la UOC (Puntdoc) (Association of UOCDocumentation Students)

- Xarxa de Comunicació i Recursos deResolució i Transformació de Conflictes/UOC (RC2-UOC) (Communications andRecourse Network for ConflictResolution and Transformation)

- Associació dels Estudiants de la UOCResidents a l’Estranger (REUOC,Association of UOC Students Living Abroad)

- Revista Catalana de Cultura i Lletres (Tossal)(Catalan Journal of Culture and Letters)

- Associació dels Llicenciats i Llicenciadesen Psicopedagogia de la UOC (UOCAP)(UOC Psychopedagogy Graduates’Association)

- ZonaCampus

AEUOC 197

ABIPI 51

APDTC-UOC 3

AtletiUOC 106

CEPC-UOC 3

CRUOC 29

GUPLU 36

The Digital Window 12

OPV 44

Paradigma 3

PAUOC 41

Puntdoc 38

RC2-UOC 3

REUOC 22

Tossal 3

UOCAP 16

ZonaCampus 3

Total 610

Sports promotion One of the objectives of the University is to promote sport as a healthful activitythat creates links, a group awareness,and a sense of belonging to the universitycommunity.

In the sphere of intra-university sport, the diversity of the championships thathave taken place is of note, with a total of twenty-five individual sports and tenteam sports represented.

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In this academic year the UOC was givenrecognition by the Esport Català Universitari(Catalan University Sport) in the form of fourmedals for the best sportsmen and womenin the following sports:

- Womens’ BTT, Meritxell Ferrer- Men’s Marathon, Ricard Verge- Men’s Middle Marathon, Ramon Buscart- Men’s Middle Mountain Marathon,

Guillem Vilalta

The gold medal won by Erica Castañedadeserves special mention: it allowed herto participate in the World Championshipthat was held in Greece in June 2004.

Furthermore, in this academic year 2003-2004 the UOC organised oncemore the Catalonia University MiddleMarathon Championships in Sitges andthe Middle Mountain Marathon in Alpens,both of which lasted a single day, 11thJanuary and 6th June, respectively.

In regard to state-wide competitions, the UOC participated in four UniversityChampionship sports:

Sport Gold Medals Silver Medals Bronze Medals

Judo - - 1

Marathon 1 - -

Karate - - 1

Middle Marathon (m / w) 1 1 2

Middle Mountain Marathon 1 - 1

BTT 1 - -

Triathlon 1 - -

Total 5 1 5

Joan Planas Athletics - Pole-vaulting

Erica Castañeda 59 to 63 kilo Taekwondo

Juan Manuel Rodríguez 80 kilo Karate - Kumite

Josep Pellús Chess

The territorial network is structured in twolevels: A nucleus network of supportcentres which covers territorial limits orpopulation areas, and a capillary networkof support points and link points thatreaches all the Catalan regions.

The support centre, principal resource of the territorial network, is orientedtoward the support and galvanisation of the university community and the dissemination of information about the UOC in that sphere. The centre offers the maximum level of services to allthe students in the regions that it is aimedto cover. It also undertakes to co-ordinateall the work of the support points and the link points, and the services offeredtherefrom. Cultural activities thatcontribute to enriching the programmes in which the UOC is present are alsopromoted from these centres.

Support points and link points act ascomplementary entities to the supportcentres. They are located within publicservices or institutional centres inaccordance with a collaborationagreement. These territorial entities offerservice to the public and the possibility of carrying out some specifictransactions; they also have equipmentfor connection to the UOC’s Virtual Campus.

Throughout this academic year, the UOChas been present in the followingterritories:

- Barcelona-Guinardó Support Point(Barcelonès)

- Perpignan Support Point- Santa Bàrbara Link Point (Montsià)- Manlleu Link Point (Osona)

UOC Centres

During the two semesters of theacademic year, a total of one-hundredsportsmen and women participated in the University Championships of Catalonia, in which a total of elevenmedals were won.

Vallès Occidental Support Centre, Vapor Badia,Sabadell

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Support Centres Support Points and Link Points With the support of

Barcelona Badalona (Barcelonès)

Badalona-Llefià (Barcelonès) Town Council of Badalona

Barcelona-les Corts (Barcelonès) Consorci de Biblioteques de Barcelona (Barcelona Consortium of Libraries)

Barcelona-Vila Olímpica (Barcelonès) Consorci de Biblioteques de Barcelona (Barcelona Consortium of Libraries)

Barcelona-Sant Andreu (Barcelonès) Consorci de Biblioteques de Barcelona (Barcelona Consortium of Libraries)

Barcelona-Guinardó (Barcelonès) Consorci de Biblioteques de Barcelona (Barcelona Consortium of Libraries)

L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelonès) Town Council of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat

Mataró (Maresme) Town Council of Mataró

Sant Feliu de Llobregat (Baix Llobregat) Vilanova i la Geltrú (Garraf) Town Council of Vilanova i la Geltrú

Masquefa (Anoia) Town Council of Masquefa

Vallirana (Baix Llobregat) Town Council of Vallirana

Vilafranca del Penedès (Alt Penedès)

Terrassa (Vallès Occidental) Rubí (Vallès Occidental) Town Council of Rubí

Sabadell (Vallès Occidental) Granollers (Vallès Oriental) Town Council of Granollers

Barberà del Vallès (Vallès Occidental) Town Council of Barberà del Vallès

Manresa (Bages) Berga (Berguedà) Town Council of Berga, Regional Council, andBerguedà University Foundation

Igualada (Anoia) Town Council of Igualada

Puigcerdà (Cerdanya) Regional Council of La Cerdanya

Solsona (Solsonès) Regional Council of Solsonès

Manlleu (Osona) Town Council of Manlleu, Caixa Manlleu Savings Bank, and Fundació Mil·lenari

Vic (Osona)

Salt (Gironès) Banyoles (Pla de l’Estany) Regional Council of Pla de l’Estany

Blanes (Selva) Town Council of Blanes

Figueres (Alt Empordà) Regional Council of Alt Empordà

Olot (Garrotxa) Fundació d’Estudis Superiors d’Olot (Higher Education Foundation of Olot)

Palafrugell (Baix Empordà) Town Council of Palafrugell

Ripoll (Ripollès) Regional Council of Ripollès

Santa Coloma de Farners (Selva) Town Council of Santa Coloma de Farners

Ribes de Freser (Ripollès) Town Council of Ribes de Freser

Vidreres (Selva) Town Council of Vidreres

Reus (Baix Camp) Coma-ruga (Baix Penedès) Consorci Universitari del Baix Penedès (Baix Penedès University Consortium)

Montblanc (Conca de Barberà) Regional Council of La Conca de Barberà

Valls (Alt Camp) Consorci Pro Universitari Alt Camp - Conca de Barberà (Alt Camp-Concade Barberà Pro-University Consortium) and Town Council of Valls

Tortosa (Baix Ebre) Gandesa (Terra Alta) Regional Council of Terra Alta

Móra d’Ebre (Ribera d’Ebre) Regional Council of Ribera d’Ebre

La Fatarella (Terra Alta) Town Council of La Fatarella

Santa Bàrbara (Montsià) Town Council of Santa Bàrbara

Lleida (Segrià) Seu d’Urgell (Alt Urgell) Regional Council of Alt Urgell

Sort (Pallars Sobirà) Regional Council of Pallars Sobirà

Tàrrega (Urgell) Town Council of Tàrrega

La Pobla de Segur (Pallars Jussà) Town Council of La Pobla de Segur

Alghero (Italy) - (Barcelonès)* Òmnium Cultural de l’Alguer, Universitat de Sàsserand Town Council of Alghero

Brussels (Belgium) - (Barcelonès)* Patronat Català Pro Europa

Ciutadella (Minorca) - (Barcelonès)* Town Council of Ciutadella and University of the Balearic Isles

Illes Pitiüses (Barcelonès)* Island Council of Eivissa and Formentera

Manacor (Majorca) - (Barcelonès)* Town Council of Manacor and Universitat de les Illes Balears (University of the Balearic Isles)

Perpignan (Northern Catalonia) - (Gironès)* Ministry of the Presidency, Generalitat de Catalunya (Autonomous Government of Catalonia)

Sant Julià de Lòria (Andorra)Virtual Studies of Andorra (University of Andorra)

Madrid Premises

Valencia Premises

Seville Premises

* Reference Support Centre

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The various entities of the UOC providingservice to the public experienced anoverall increase in activity in the lastacademic year, with a rise in the numberof calls received on the Latin Americanrecruitment telephone number, which is902 372 373. There was also an increasein the number of messages received bye-mail in the information mail-boxes.Thus, what is noticeable is an increase in the diversity of consultations stemmingfrom the large selection of educationaloptions that the entire Grup UOC offers.

There were some modifications in someof the fields in the data-gathering form of the UOC’s CRM (Customer RelationshipManagement) tool, which providesknowledge about the professional data of the people who have shown interest inthe UOC (area of activity, kind of work,name of the firm, and position) and haveexpressed a motivation to study. Thispermits a deeper analysis of the profile of those who want to study at the UOC.

The Club of Graduates and Friends of the UOC offers graduates the possibilityof remaining linked to the University byforming part of a network of associateswho share areas, services, andadvantages with the objective ofpromoting their projection and recognitionin the professional world and bringing up

to date their acquired knowledge, whileparticipating in the quality and prestigethat, together, they attain.

The BBVA has sponsored the Club of Graduates and Friends of the UOCthroughout this academic year and as of 2002.

The distribution of consultations for each device was the following:

Attention to the Public

Information-providing devices Number of consultations attended to

Support Centres and Link Centres 64,000

Main Campus - 902 141 141 29,566

Latin American Campus - 902 372 373 21,000

[email protected] 4,179

[email protected] 3,500

Total 122,245

The UOC now has 5,035 graduates:

Business Studies 671

Business Administration and Management 438

Labour Sciences 278

Market Research and Techniques 8

Psychopedagogy 586

Psychology 4

Law Studies 116

Political and Administration Sciences 22

Humanities 83

Catalan Language and Literature 11

Technical Engineering in Computer Management 104

Technical Engineering in Computer Systems 144

Computer Engineering 25

Degree in Multimedia Studies 12

Documentation 334

Total graduates in recognised degrees and in degrees of the UOC’s own 2,836

Doctor’s degree in the Information and Knowledge Society 2

Master’s degree holders and other postgraduate students 2,197

Total 5,035

The Club of Graduates and Friends of the UOC

The profile of the people trained at theUOC is ideal for their becoming activeparticipants in the emerging informationsociety, as they acquire the talent tomanage information and knowledge onthe Net, and constitute a profile of peoplewith an innovative and creative mentality.They are people sensitive to thechallenges of constant learning, flexible in their responses to the changes in their environment, and good managersof their time.

Graduate Students

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The club provides the tools, services, and resources necessary for theprofessional projection of its members,who are able to enjoy maximumadvantages as a result of having studiedat the UOC. Likewise, the Clubcontributes to the formation of aprestigious community.

This section includes the LabourExchange service, offering personalisedprofessional guidance and selected joboffers, and the Graduate Directory:

UOC 2004 Graduate Directory

The 2004 Graduate Directory is the book in which figure those who haveattained a Doctorate, a Bachelor’sDegree, or a Diploma at the UOC beforeJuly 2004, together with their contactdetails, their academic degree, and theirprofessional data.

The publication of this Directory has the following two aims:

- To facilitate contact among graduates,such that they may interchange ideasand experience and create projects incommon.

- To offer a tool for communicating withthe firms and principal intermediaries inthe labour market that will allow them toknow who the graduates of the UOCare, and in this way come to proposalsfor professional improvement.

The Graduate Directory is published inCatalan and in Spanish, and is distributedto more than five-hundred firms, amongwhich are the most representative humanresources selection consulting firms onthe labour market, and the mainenterprises in each of the occupationalsectors related to the studies taught atthe UOC.

Professional Projection

The Club allows a continual re-cycling of the knowledge acquired in the courseof study in the subjects to do with the professional sphere, the informationand knowledge society, and knowledgeand culture in general.

This section includes attractive discountson training, and the possibility of obtainingaccess to courses, seminars andmeetings.

Training

- Comunitat de Fer Empresa en la Societatdel Coneixement (CFESC) This club hasbeen operational since July 2002 and inthis academic year it has organised sixvisits to different firms and importantinstitutions in its sphere of activity, inwhich participated one-hundred-and-twenty-seven members of the Club.

- Comunitat de Teatre (CT) de la UOC(UOC Theatre Community) In thisacademic year a total of fifty newmembers joined the two-hundred whoalready enjoy this virtual area, with avolume of two-hundred messages andthree-hundred face-to-face activities,which were attended by more than two-hundred members of the UOC.

- In this academic year the Comunitat de Solidaritat de la UOC (CS, SolidarityCommunity of the UOC) wasestablished. It has the support andcollaboration of the Campus for Peace.It is an open area that promotes and brings together virtual projects of the UOC community in matters to do

with co-operation and solidarity. In thisacademic year a total of one-hundredmembers joined and four visits weremade to NGOs, in which seventy-twomembers of the UOC participated.

The members of the UOC communitywere also able to participate from time totime in recreational and cultural outings,such as the one to the CalçUOCtada ofReus, graduation ceremonies at the UOC,and visits to the most emblematicmuseums and areas of Catalonia. A totalof ten activities were organised with morethan three-hundred-and-fifty participants.

In April 2004, The Club of Graduates and Friends of the UOC celebrated the second UOC Graduates’ Night at the Royal Palace of Pedralbes, with atotal attendance of one-hundred-and-seventy-six people, seventy of whomwere graduates.

The total number of activities organisedwas twenty-eight, in which participatedmore than one thousand people.

Community Galvanisation

The Advantages Service offered UOCcommunity members, through thecollaboration of various firms and entities,a total of two-hundred-and-fifty-fivepermanent advantages.

These advantages consist in discounts of between 5 and 50% in museums,bookshops, sports shops, fitness centres,and many other firms and cultural entitiesthroughout Catalonia. In order to obtainthem, it is necessary to present a UOCidentity card.

Furthermore, by means of the applicationof a raffling system, about

four-thousand-five-hundred tickets wereshared out among members of the Club.Some were free, and others at half price,for attendance at shows offered by:

- Gran Teatre del Liceu- Teatre Lliure- Teatre Nacional de Catalunya

(Catalonian National Theatre)- Teatre Poliorama- Teatre Victòria- Versus Teatre- Auditori de Barcelona

Advantages

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Research

The Internet Interdisciplinary Institute(IN3)

Research is, together with training, and the dissemination and extension ofknowledge, one of the attributes thatdefine and delimit a university and conferto it its own personality. The priority at the UOC is to advance the creativity ofthe person and the progress of society bypromoting, on the one hand, specialisedresearch on the knowledge society and,

on the other, the type of research,development and innovation that mustallow the University to follow a permanentadaptation and evolution. Thus researchbecomes a co-substantial activity of the day to day of its professionals, not only of the academic but also of the management staff.

From the IN3 work is done with two basicobjectives in mind:

- To study the effects, the use and the applications of the information andcommunications technologies on theperson, organisations and society at largeand in the changes that take place in the information and knowledge society.

- To provide support to the researchgenerated at the UOC, not only in itsmore academic and scientific aspect, butalso in the management, the monitoringand the promotion made of it.

Programmes

The following are the programmes intowhich the research, development andinnovation activity are structured:

The Network Society

It analyses the impact of the use of ICTson society in general, and the phenomenaaccompanying the emergence andconsolidation of a network society. On theone hand, this line of research pays specialattention to the analysis of the use of theInternet in regard to educational activity, at home, the world of business, the publicAdministration, the communication media,and the health system, among otherspheres. On the other hand, this line alsoincludes the analysis of the processes bywhich the Internet transforms and is itselftransformed by the collection of practices,uses and appropriations on the part ofvarious social actors.

Head: Professor Manuel Castells

One must single out here the presentationand approval of the projects that make upthe second part of the Catalonia InternetProject (Projecte Internet Catalunya, PIC)- Second Phase:

- PIC Autonomous Administration. An analysis of the process of change in the sphere of attention to citizens as a result of the implantation of e-governance initiatives in anautonomous administration such as thatof the Generalitat de Catalunya, takingalso into account the European context.

- PIC Universities. An analysis of the transformation processes ofuniversity academic life in the Catalansphere, the link of the said processesto current reality, and the repercussionsthat they have in society in generalconcerning the use of telematic toolsand, specifically, of the Internet.

- PIC Audio-visual. A study ofinternational scope about the Internet as a means of communication, and ananalysis of the transformations of thecommunications media in Catalonia as a result of the implantation of the Internet.

- PIC Business. Research on theproduction conditions and competitionpatterns in Catalan business, with theaim of contrasting the relationshipamong the various sources ofcompetition advantage of Catalanenterprise and the most advanced

productive and organisational modelsbased on the constant innovation andon networking.

- PIC Schools. Continuation of the studyon the incorporation of the Internet intothe non-university educational spheredeveloped during the first phase.

- PIC Health. Identification of the factorsof organisational, administrative andcultural change needed for theproductive use of the information andcommunications technologies for thebenefit of the citizen using Catalonia’shealth system.

e-learning

It analyses the incorporation of the Internet-based technologies into the educational sphere, from educationalpsychology and the theories of learning to the management of virtual organisationsand the analysis of their social impact.

Head: Professor Tony Bates

The following are the priorities in thisstudy:

- E-learning management- Teaching and learning- E-learning technology

Knowledge Management

It is geared to clarifying the differencesbetween, on the one hand, data andinformation, and, on the other, informationand knowledge, and making themoperational; to understanding how data,information and knowledge contribute tothe development of, and the competitionamong, organisations; and finally tounderstanding the extent to whichprocesses foment or hinder thegeneration of data, information andknowledge.

Head: Professor Max Boisot

E-government and E-administration

An analysis of the transformations resultingfrom an intensive use of the ICTs in thepublic administrations and governmentsystems, and of the impact thesetechnologies have on the politicalphenomena and on the relationshipbetween the Administration and the citizen.

Head: Professor Joan Prats

Networking technologies

The networking technologies encompassall the technologies that deal withcommunications networks. Firstly, andconcerning communication itself, thesetechnologies include the newcommunication models, such as thewireless networks or the new paradigmsof ambient intelligence. Regarding themore structural aspects, networkingtechnologies build on peer-to-peermodels, new high velocity networks, aswell as on improvements in security andstructuring of information. Lastly, theapplications treated in networkingtechnologies include collaborative work inthe network and the analysis ofinteractions between users andapplications.

The Knowledge Economy and the Network Company

Information and communicationtechnologies are transforming economicactivity and defining a new knowledge-based economy. For businesses, thisbroad process of transformationtranslates into the consolidation of aconcept: the network company. The network company is a strategic,organisational and productive businessmodel in the knowledge society and is based on the decentralisation in the network of the elements of value. This model is only possible with apowerful technological instrument - ICTs.Indeed, the intensive use of digitaltechnologies defines a new manner of doing business, based on computerand telecommunications networks. We can now understand e-business asthe productive practice of networkedcompanies, based on intensive use of ICTs.

e-health

Bringing together health professionalsand users of the healthcare system(patients) has been one of the principalmotives of the Psychology of Healthstudy. With the incorporation of theInternet into our daily lives, a newscenario for the doctor - patientrelationship is born. Now the psychologyof health has to study this new scenarioin order to offer a common space for thecitizen-Internet user (in terms of health)and health professionals who currently (orin the future) are (or will be) using thisonline tool to offer their products andservices.

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Introduction

The UOC is a pioneering university invirtual learning (e-learning) and an activeagent in the transition towards a newculture - the one generating the samedevelopment of the information andknowledge society.

A decided will to disseminate this newculture finds expression in variousinitiatives, like the University’s portal(www.uoc.edu), the publication of the research results, the publishingactivity, the cultural and disseminationactivities, as well as the knowledgetransfer services which the Universitymakes available to enterprise andinstitutions.

The UOC has a special interest to makeknown the activity of its researchers andthe results of the research projects whichthey carry out. For this reason, itencourages the publication of the scientific production generated inorder to achieve the dissemination of its activity. Thus it contributes to the understanding of the phenomenonof the information and knowledge societyfrom all the spheres.

Presence on the Internet

Throughout the academic year 2003-2004the UOC has increased its efforts todisseminate knowledge on the Internetseen as a natural channel of presence anddissemination of the University. Thisdissemination has been organised mainlythrough vertical initiatives on the Internet,and also through the actual University portal,which has contributed to their amplification.

Initiatives on the Internet

Thus, Lletra (www.uoc.edu/lletra), thevirtual space of Catalan literature, hasestablished itself, in its third anniversary,as a reference point of Catalan literatureon the Internet and as the main virtualaccess to the Catalan literary system.

The fourth edition of the Premi Lletra,awarded within the framework of theGirona Literary Awards of the FundacióPrudenci Bertrana, has consolidated theaward as the most important recognitionin the sphere of the web pages devotedto Catalan literature. Lletra has alsobecome the promoter of face-to-faceactivities with an impact on the Internet,like the one that at the end of 2003gathered a representation of authors,publishers and literary critics with the aimof reflecting – exploring new formats –on the literary year ending and the onestarting: http://www.uoc.edu/lletra/anatomia2003.

In its annual issue, the digital Humanitiesjournal Digithum (www.uoc.edu/digithum),which celebrated its sixth birthday in 2004,

published the monographic work «Les professions de les humanitats en la societat del coneixement».

The virtual space devoted to theintersection among art, science andtechnology, Artnodes(www.uoc.edu/artnodes), continued topublish articles, interviews, reviews andchronicles of events. One could single outthe publication at the end of November of2003, of the node “Art, activisme itecnologia. Heterotopies glocals”.

Mosaic (www.uoc.edu/mosaic), a journal on multimedia issues born with the objective of strengthening the relation between the university sphereand the multimedia business world, has inaugurated design and haspublished twelve issues, mainly witharticles, interviews and selections ofmultimedia assignments by students.

Catalonia Internet Project (Projecte Internet Catalunya)

In the field of research, one must singleout the publication on the Internet of five research reports resulting from the Projecte Internet Catalunya(www.uoc.edu/in3/pic), an interdisciplinaryresearch programme on the informationsociety in Catalonia promoted by theUOC’s Internet Interdisciplinary Institute(IN3).

- ICTs and the transformations in Catalanenterprise

- School in the network society- E-government and public services:

a study of the CAT365 portal- Barcelona City Council in the network

society- Internet and the Catalan university

network

e-law

Framework research programme whichseeks to contribute to the analysis of theprofound changes detected in the area ofLaw in the network society, both on acontent level and in terms of regulatoryinstruments, processes and operators.

This new context is causing a crisis inmany of the assumptions underlying theregulatory capacity of the law –territorialityof power, the sovereign state, a cleardivision of powers, etc.– and forces us toreconsider the majority of the premises onwhich we have based jurisprudence inmodern times.

The programme not only invites to anidentification of what is changing andwhy, but also to carry out an analysis andevaluation of the various strategies ofadaptation to these changes.

e-cultures

The objective is to facilitate access toliterary and heritage culture for theEuropean citizen, particularly collectionsin museum and galleries, and to facilitateartistic creation in virtual environments.The idea is the overcome obstacles oftime and space to access collections anddocumentation that find themselves at acertain physical distance or that belong to

a different temporality, and in this wayprovide online information for users.Furthermore, new perceptions arisingfrom the reactions and interactions ofdigital technologies in these areas ofknowledge will be studied. In otherwords, the essential aim is to create astructure similar to the MEDICI model towhich the DG XIII of the EuropeanCommission had already given support.

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*Single Visitors - Number of Single-Users IP who have visited the UOC’s website

Knowledge Disseminationand Transfer

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The UOC portal, leader on the Internet

The UOC portal (www.uoc.edu) hasmaintained and strengthened its role as a disseminating agent of knowledge.Moreover, this year it has reinforced thedissemination and amplification of contentthrough the six channels that it hasopened (law and politics, economy andenterprise, education and psychology,information and communication,technology, culture and society). They forthe first time have incorporated fourservices of selection of weekly updatednews items elaborated by the UOCLibrary: news about knowledgemanagement, news about law and theInternet, news about e-commerce andNews of technology and the Internet.

Figures

The UOC portal keeps leading, in aconsecutive way these last years, the panorama of Spanish and Europeanwebsites. According to Alexa, one of themost-often used and referenced Internetrankings (built around three quantitativeparameters: number of visitors, numberof pages per visit, and number of siteswith link to the page in question), theUOC portal is found among the world’s

first 3,000 websites. In the academicsphere, according to this ranking, the UOC site is the first university portal in the European scope, the third in theLatin American scope, and it is placedamid the first fifty in the world. Within the parameters of the Spanish state, the UOC site is above sites of institutionsas important as the Spanish Ministry ofScience and Education, the BarcelonaCity Council, or the Generalitat deCatalunya.

As for the statistics of access registeredthrough the analysis of logs towww.uoc.edu, and taking intoconsideration that the UOC has some35,000 registered users among students,lecturers, staff and collaborators, the factthat more than 250,000 single visitorsvisit it monthly proves that it has becomea site with a very considerable impactpattern. The number of accesses addsglobally to more than 1,000,000 eachmonth to the www.uoc.edu pages.

Globally, the content of academic and research dissemination adds to thousands of opened pages.

AIMC Report

Another indicator of the Internet activity is the Estudio general de medios, a yearlyreport of the Asociación para laInvestigación de Medios deComunicación (AIMC), which measuresregularly since 1996 the evolution of the Internet in Spain. The sixth edition ofthis report, carried out between Octoberand December 2003, was made public in February 2004, with a total of 40,865valid surveyed persons. One of the resultsof the survey is a ranking of the 100 sitesbest remembered after a first mentionwith this question: «Try to remember the five last websites you have visited».According to this ranking, the UOC siteappears in 17th position, four positionshigher than in 2002 and abovepaginasamarillas.es, elperiodico.com,microsoft.com, vilaweb.com, gencat.net,lavanguardia.es or bbva.es. According to the same report, the profile of theinternaut visiting the UOC portal is this:he is a man(63%), between 25 and 44years old (78,8%), has studied atuniversity (68,4%), is an activeprofessional (87,8%), has been using the Internet for the last five years (63,8%),lives in Catalonia (70,9%), but not in aprovincial capital (52,9%).

Publishing Activity

During the academic year 2003-2004,Editorial UOC, SL continued its publishingactivity with the 40 new publicationsgrouped in the following way:

Activities of social dissemination

One of the UOC’s leading objectives isthe dissemination and transfer ofknowledge within the context of changesand of the social, economic and culturalimpact, promoted by the technologiesand information. This will to disseminate

the initiatives and the knowledgegenerated from the University is madeconcrete with a number of activities whichdo not limit themselves to the virtualchannels, but that respond to a clear willof being present in the territory throughthe organisation and participation inactivities of a face-to-face nature.

In the Annex to this 2003-2004 Reportyou will find a selection of those events of social dissemination, conferences,seminars and courses in which the UOChas taken part, whether from the organisation itself or through the active participation and collaborationof lecturers and University professionals

«Manuals» Collection, books in Catalan 12 titles

«Manuales» Collection, books in Spanish 18 titles

«Biblioteca Multimèdia» Collection, books with CD-ROM in Spanish and Catalan 3 titles

«Biblioteca Oberta» Collection, books in Catalan 2 titles

Collections in which the titles do not come from the UOC holdings

«Biblioteca Multimedia de la Industria» Collection, CD-ROM in Spanish 2 titles

«Nuevas Tecnologías y Sociedad» Collection 4 titles

New collections or series

«Educación y Sociedad Red» Collection 3 titles

«E-culture» Collection 2 titles

Articles 78

Working papers 16

Reviews 12

Virtual debate 1

Interviews 6

Research reports 5

Doctoral work 1

Research notes 3

Press releases 200

Link selection 80

Activity notes 100

Content published on the website

Internet University Visits Source: Alexa - July 2004

Collections from the exploitation of the holdings of the UOC subjects

1,7572,576 2,697

6,353 6,5017,206

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Autónomade México

Universitatde Barcelona

OpenUniversity

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de Catalunya

OxfordUniversity

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UNED

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Training for Enterprise and institutions

During this period, the UOC, through itsgroup’s GEC company, has carried outimportant projects in the field of learningsolutions – like those developed on behalfof Banc Sabadell, Volkswagen AudiEspaña S.A., Asepeyo, Cyclops or AENA –, of marketing – such as the Magus 0.15 environment for CajaNavarra –, information – RuralCat or theEstany Obert portal –, of collaborationwork – like the environment e-oncologiafor doctors –, or of cross-media – wherethe project Einstein a la platja, carried outjointly by Barcelona Televisió and theRamon Llull University, stands out.

Some of the customers with which GEChas worked during this exercise are thefollowing:

The Finance Sector- Bancaja. The project is based on the

development of a training environmentfor the 5,200 staff of Bancaja. Withinthe environment, at first knowledge pillswill be offered, and a welcomingprogramme for new staff.

- Bankinter. Creation of a specialisationprogramme for Branch Directors. The project combines virtual with face-to-face training, with content, suchas investment analysis, office planningand organisation, or sales techniques,among others.

- Banc Sabadell. Design of three newhigher programmes in Financemanagement, Marketing managementand Strategic direction, as well as acourse on e-business that combinesface-to-face with virtual training.

- Caja Navarra. The relationship with thisentity consolidates itself thanks to thecreation of the Magus0.15 community, a virtual environment for children up to15 years of age, of a ludic nature,conducted under the supervision of the Marketing Department of thisbanking institution.

Mutual and Insurance Companies- Asepeyo. The relationship with this

mutual consolidates itself with the beginning of the creation of itscorporate university. This projectconsists in three very distinct stages: its conceptualisation, its launch and the transfer of knowledge for the self-management of the project from the organisation.

- Mutual Cyclops. Within the frameworkof the project, geared to the integrationof the e-learning activities of the humanresources and training departments, awelcome plan for new staff has beenelaborated, plus a training plan forspecific competencies. On the otherhand, a management programme forthe managers of the company has beendevised, as a first step towards theconstruction of a future CyclopsManagement School.

- Caifor. Extension of the project throughthe implementation of new courses andthe maintenance of the management ofthe project office.

The Pharmaceuticals Sector- Lilly. Development of content and

galvanisation of various training actions

geared to the medical community andto the network of medical delegates ofthis pharmaceutical company.

- Pfizer. Creation and galvanisation of a learning community for doctorsspecialising in cardiovascular ailments.

The Public Sector- e-oncología. Within the framework of

the project a virtual space of referencedevoted to the professionals working inthe health area linked to oncology. The main objectives of the communityare to provide information and training,and to facilitate the management ofknwoledge and the collaboration workamong the members of the community.

- AENA. Design of the training processes,and construction of a virtual campus for the more than 9,000 workers atAeropuertos Españoles y NavegaciónAérea. The environment incorporates a system to manage learning thatincludes functionalities such asplanning, programming, calls, provision,monitoring and evaluation of the trainingprogrammes.

- Pla de l’Estany Regional Council.Creation of the Estany Obert project, a web space whose objective is the integration and dissemination of the tourist brand Pla de l’Estany andof all the tourist services in the region.

- Ministry of Justice, Generalitat deCatalunya. Development of a virtualenvironment and virtualisation of varioustraining programmes for the Centred’Estudis Jurídics i FormacióEspecialitzada.

- Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock andFisheries, Generalitat de Catalunya.GEC has held the co-ordination and management of the office of the RuralCat project, the virtualcommunity of reference of the ruralworld of Catalonia. A system ofphitosanitary alerts through the mobiletelephone as a service worthy ofremark; a geographical search serviceof products with a quality mark; and alight version of the portal allowing userswith speed of connection problems afaster access have all beenincorporated to it.

- Secretariat of Telecommunications andthe Information Society, Generalitat deCatalunya. Co-ordination of the office of the xarxa365 web project, the web ofpublic points of access to the Internet of Catalonia, which in additionincorporates a course of initiation to the Internet with the aim of trainingone thousand people free. GEC is alsoin charge of managing the support andgalvanisation office of the Ciutadaniacommunity, geared to the introductionof the information and communicationstechnologies.

- Ministry of the Interior, Generalitat deCatalunya. The first edition of the higherManagement of Public Securityprogramme was held this year.Catalonia’s national police (Mossosd’Esquadra) and local police took partin it.

- The virtual learning environment of theConsejo General del Notariado offersonline training to notaries and notaryoffices’ staff with the aim of bringing the information and communications

technologies closer to this collective.The challenge of this environment is tobecome a management tool for change,through training activities and thegalvanisation of user communities.

- Agencia Española de CooperaciónInternacional. An extension of the AECIproject, involving the creation of a virtualspace to monitor former foreign grantholders, especially from those countriesthat receive official development aid(AOD), who have studied in the Spanishstate in universities and other officialinstitutions that award the grants.

- Spanish Ministry of Science andTechnology. Extension of the Funcionaproject, partly subsidised by the Ministryof Science and Technology. It consistsin the design and construction of anintranet platform allowing the provisionof support to the public institutionsconcerning professional development.

- Content for All. A GEC-led Europeanproject consisting in the development of new interactive services geared to the future development of digitaltelevision. Generation of virtualcommunities using peer to peertechnology (P2P) is also expected.

- Delphy. A project to help design and rollout educational policies for the RussianMinistry of Education, which expectsaction along three great strategic lines,namely, vocational training, distanceeducation, and business training. Theproject is led by the British Council andhas the important participation of GEC.

Other sectors- Volkswagen Audi España, S.A.

Development of a learning managementsystem to provide support to the salesand post-sales teams of the four brandsmaking up the group: Volkswagen,Audi, Skoda and commercial vehicles.In addition, some courses for the post-sales division have been developed.

- BSH Electrodomésticos España, S.A. A course on branding and product wasconducted for the company BSHElectrodomésticos España, a firmincluding Siemens, Bosch, Balay, Lynxand Ufesa, among other brands. Theproject also includes a training fortrainers course.

- Gas Natural. Training environment for allthe Gas Natural staff and for the variouscollectives of external collaborators ofthe company. GEC developed theplatform of those training environments,the integration with the company’smanagement system, and currently itcarries out maintenance andenvironment hosting tasks.

- Barcelona Televisió. Creation of the webspace of the TV programme Einstein ala Platja, with the aim of establishingdynamics of management of audiencesbetween the Internet and the television(a cross-media strategy). The project has been carried out with the collaboration of the Faculty of Communication of the Ramon LlullUniversity, within the Master’sprogramme of Digital projects of communication.

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Solidarity Co-operation

The Campus for Peace (C4P)

The Campus for Peace is thedevelopment co-operation programme of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunyathrough which the institution dischargesits role as co-operation agent,contributing with knowledge, resources,and technical capacity, and at the sametime co-ordinating, channelling andguiding the university community activityin co-operation and solidarity issues,according to its principle of ethicalcommitment to society.

The following facts can be singled out inits fourth year of existence:

- The success of the UOC campaignApadrinaja.org involving Argentinianchildren. It obtained 100 sponsorshipsand 1,083 euros, and is currentlyhosted online by Comparte, as asponsoring and denouncing tool of the situation of children.

- The consolidation of the training fordevelopment work line, a pioneeringmodel of technological transfer andonline voluntary work, within which the following projects and courses werecarried out:

Development of a training offer for NGO members, geared to theircollaborators and volunteers.

Training programme of the EHAShealth project, together with theFundación Enlace Hispanoamericanode Salud.

Spanish Red Cross volunteer trainingwithin the framework of the Internetpara todos project of the SpanishMinistry of Science and Technology.

Second and third edition of thecourse Introducción a la formaciónon-line, AbSoo-Compartir paraeducar project, with the IWith.orgFoundation.

Creation of the virtual training spacefor the Spanish Red Cross, on whichthe entity has carried out foureditions of its Curso a distancia deatención sanitaria inmediata and oneedition of its Curso a distancia deformación básica en cooperacióninternacional.

Creation of the virtual training spacefor the Fundación EDE, on which thisentity has taught the courseRegulación de conflictos en elequipo de educadores.

Consolidation of the Campus forPeace grant programme. Fifteenmembers of Enginyeria senseFronteres (Engineers withoutBorders) were awarded a grant for50% of the postgraduate course ontechnologies for humandevelopment, and two beneficiariesof the AbSoo-Compartir para educarproject, and two 100% grants for theUOC Summer Virtual University.

- The continuity of the voluntary workprogramme, so that, in addition to thedevelopment training projects, volunteersmade the following initiatives possible:

Computer support to AmnistiaInternacional Catalunya

Design of the graphic line for the Reform Watch Internet portal

- Three new beneficiaries of the use of its technological platform service:

I Congrés Virtual Internacional sobrela Sordceguesa

Oficina Virtual d’Economistes senseFronteres

Working group of the Fundació perla Pau

- The participation, in keeping with the Campus’ mission of dissemination of the use of ICTs in co-operation, in the following sessions:

Solidarity Fair, Forum of CulturesBarcelona 2004

I Congrés Internacional: E-learning iInclusió Social

I Congrés Virtual Llatinoamericàd’Educació a Distància Latin Educa2004

III Seminari sobre Quart Món iExclusió Social

Jornada Exclusió Social iTecnologies de la Informació

III Congrés d’Aplicació de les NovesTecnologies a la Docència Presenciali E-learning

Jornades Net.es3

- The organisation, in keeping with the Campus’ objective of galvanising theUOC community and raising awarenessin it, of the following activities:

Presentation of the project of e-learning for developmentAbSoo-Compartir para educar.

A talk on social corporateresponsibility by Economistes senseFronteres at the synthesis meetingand within the framework of theFaculty of Economics and BusinessStudies.

“Kosovo: una mirada al cor delsBalcans” exhibition, in collaborationwith the Xarxa d’Universitats InstitutJoan Lluís Vives at the initial meeting.

First Campus for Peace voluntaryworkers’ meeting.

The Campus for Peace in figures:

Projects 29

Projects involving online training 6

Projects involving knowledge management 6

Projects involving virtual communities 7

Sensitising campaigns 6

Internet projects 3

Other projects 1

Courses 19

Given by C4P voluntary workers 12

Given by member entities 7

Entities 23

Member entities of the C4P platform 15

Collaborating entities 8

Volunteers 39

C4P platform users 2,578

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Financial Report 2003

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Investments 4,765,386.21 4,839,289.18 7,190,938.43 9,407,455.37 6,244,790.53

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(2) Approved budgets, without amortisations

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ASSETS Euros

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Immaterial assets 25,918,918.41

Material fixed assets 18,097,934.26

Financial assets 3,502,556,69

Total fixed assets 47,519,409.36

Accumulated depreciation -24,499,007.10

Net Fixed Assets 23,020,402.26

Immaterial fixed assets in process 633,463.87

Expenses to be distributed over various years 26,751.31

Inventory 310,419.35

Receivable 43,448,713.57

Temporal financial investments 480.81

Cash 3,104,521.10

Pre-paid expenses 85,883.98

Current Assets 46,950,018.81

Total Assets 70,630,636.25

LIABILITIES Euros

Share capital 188,793.14Voluntary reserves 3,440,842.66Results -497,339.32

Own Funds 3,132,296.48Capital grant 20,363,407.67Other revenue to be distributed over various fiscal years 106,865.24

Revenue to be distributed over various fiscal years 20,470,272.91

Other provisions 135,125.62Provisions for risks and expenses 135,125.62

Long-term debt 26,682,772.32Other debt 864,154.51

Long-term liabilities 27,546,926.83Short-term debt 5,068,448.16Debt with companies of the group and associated companies 1,421,637.34Suppliers 8,749,657.88Other non-commercial debt 2,923,198.52Pre-paid expenses 1,183,072.51

Short-term Liabilities 19,346,014.41

Total liabilities 70,630,636.25

Balance Sheet on 31 December 2003

Balance Sheet Structure on 31 December 2003

Assets Liabilities

Introduction

In the section that follows the financialfigures of the Foundation for the UniversitatOberta de Catalunya corresponding to thefiscal year 2003 are detailed.

As in previous years, the firm BovéMontero i Cia. audited the Foundation’syearly accounts and presented the relevantpositive report to the Foundation’s Board ofTrustees, which approved the report in thesession of 5 July 2004.

After a detailed analysis, the mostrelevant aspects of the financial data aresingled out as follows:

- The monitoring of the profit and loss sheet,and the investment sheet, for the fiscalyear 2003 has been done separately forthe main campus (contract programme),for the specific projects, and for the IN3.

- The ordinary budget for the fiscal year2003 increased with respect to that ofthe previous fiscal year by 6%, in orderto cover the increase in activities.

- Investments totalled 9,407,455.37euros. The most important items weredestined to teaching modules; to theconstruction of the Research premisesfor the IN3; to hardware and othermaterial assets; and to computerapplications, which represented 35%,34%, 15% and 14%, respectively, of total investment for the fiscal year.

- The cash flow generated was 58,774.99euros, which was destined to the financing of investments withoutspecific funding.

Long-termLiabilities

Short-termLiabilities

CapitalSubsidies

Own Funds

Net FixedAssets

CurrentAssets

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(1.00%)

(45.00%)

(1.00%)

(39.00%)

(3.00%)

(10.00%)(1.00%)

Profit and Loss Statement 2003

REVENUE Main Campus Specific Projects IN3 Total FUOC

Net Revenue 14,512,300.85 5,346,454.75 928,540.39 20,787,295.99

Works for fixed assets 22,020.51 166,490.64 188,511.15

Other Income 50,957.76 569,236.53 620,194.29

Operating subsidies 15,721,837.36 830,095.74 2,537,785.38 19,089,718.48

Capital Subsidies 4,119,228.48 218,972.62 411,227.63 4,749,428.73

Donations 377,625.00 20,241.05 397,866.05

Excess in provision of risks and expenses 16,828.34 16,828.34

Total operating revenue 34,803,969.96 7,168,319.67 3,877,553.40 45,849,843.03

EXPENSES

Monetary aid and others 47.80 180,319.12 1,638.28 182,005.20

Suppliers 552,906.13 2,969.14 8,999.71 564,874.98

Labour Expenses 14,164,238.70 1,758,487.92 1,734,864.91 17,657,591.53

Amortisation 4,200,727.13 540,727.94 564,087.82 5,305,542.89

Variation in traffic provisions 347.27 6,701.66 135,125.62 142,174.55

External Services 14,205,097.57 4,369,752.49 1,599,929.26 20,174,779.32

Taxes 627,985.27 311,198.14 128,798.78 1,067,982.19

Other expenses of current management 124,202.00 124,202.00

Total operating expenses 33,751,349.87 7,170,156.41 4,297,646.38 45,219,152.66

Operating results 1,052,620.09 -1,836.74 -420,092.98 630,690.37

Financial Income 89,053.90 89,053.90

Financial expenses 720,176.08 12,056.69 13,870.17 746,102.94

Result 421,497.91 -13,893.43 -433,963.15 -26,358.67

Extraordinary Income 142,942.76 704.08 143,646.84

Extraordinary expenses 154,414.94 199,961.19 260,251.36 614,627.49

Pre-tax results 410,025.73 -213,854.62 -693,510.43 -497,339.32

Tax on profits

Result 410,025.73 -213,854.62 -693,510.43 -497,339.32

Distribution of Elements for the Operating Revenue 2003

Capital SubsidiesGeneralitat

OperatingSubsidies Other

OperatingSubsidiesGeneralitat

Other Income

Net Revenue

Donations

CapitalSubsidies Other

(2.00%)(1.00%)

(39.00%)

(12.00%)

(46.00%)

Distribution of Elements for the Operating Expenses 2003

ExternalServices

Amortisation

LabourExpenses

SuppliersTaxes

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Investments

CONCEPT Main Campus Specific Projects IN3 TOTAL

Non-financial investments financedthrough own funds 0.00 0.00 44,451.80 44,451.80

Cash flow of the financial year 491,524.32 107,900.91 -540,650.24 58,774.99

Result 410,025.73 -213,854.62 -693,510.43 -497,339.32

Data of Closing

1) Investments made

Main Specific Building Total FUOC Campus Projects IN3 Castelldefels 2003

Establishment expenses 0 0 0 0 0Licences, brands and similar 2,913.28 0.00 0.00 0.00 2,913.28Computer applications 936,566.28 295,447.94 51,110.27 0.00 1,283,124.49Didactic modules 2,904,965.80 259,951.39 45,037.47 0.00 3,209,954.66Other immaterial assets 37,018.95 0.00 0.00 0.00 37,018.95

Total immaterial assets 3,881,464.31 555,399.33 96,147.74 0.00 4.533.011.38

Building Work 148,037.23 0.00 0.00 3,076,469.85 3,224,507.08Other Facilities and Furniture 90,490.17 0.00 0.00 134,775.35 225,265.52Hardware and Other Material Assets 437,865.99 0.00 87,801.16 899,004.24 1,424,671.39

Total material assets 676,393.39 0.00 87,801.16 4,110,249.44 4,874,443.99

Total fixed assets(without amortisation fund) 4,557,857.70 555,399.33 183,948.90 4,110,249.44 9,407,455.37

Total 4,557,857.70 555,399.33 183,948.90 4,110,249.44 9,407,455.37

2) Investment finance

Main Spciefic Building Total FUOC Campus Projects IN3 Castelldefels 2003

Debt authorised by the Generalitat(Autonomous Govt.) 4,517,222.70 420,708.47 0.00 2,586,652.42 7,524,583.59Investment subsidies fromGeneralitat (Autonomous Govt.) 12,000.00 134,690.86 46,478.48 0.00 193,169.34Other investment finance 28,635.00 0.00 47,387.67 0.00 76,022.67Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology 0.00 0.00 45,630.95 0.00 45,630.95Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology – Feder Fund 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,523,597.02 1,523,597.02Cash flow applied tofinancing of investments 0.00 0.00 44,451.80 0.00 44,451.80

Total 4,557,857.70 555,399.33 183,948.90 4,110,249.44 9,407,455.37

Inve

stm

ents

200

3

(14.00%)

(35.00%)(34.00%)

(2.00%)

(15.00%)

Distribution of Elements for the Fixed Assets 2003

OtherFacilities and

Furniture

Building Work Didactic modules

Computerapplications

Hardware and OtherMaterial Assets

(17.00%)

(80.00%)

(2.00%) (1.00%)

Investment Finance 2003

Investmentsubsidies from

Generalitat(Autonomous Govt.)

Debt authorised by the Generalitat (Autonomous Government)

MCyT

Other investment finance

Audit Report

Audit Report by Bové Montero of 18 June 2004

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Annexes · Activities Involving Social Dissemination

Lectures, Round-tables, Debates

[10 September 2003] Until 11th. MadridAlbert Sangrà, from the area of EducationalMethodology and Innovation, presented the paper “La formación de los profesoresuniversitarios en el contexto de la LOU y la armonización europea”, at the Red Estatalde Docencia Universitaria (REDU)’s 5th Seminar.

[24 September 2003] SevilleThe Rector Gabriel Ferraté intervened in theround-table “Salud digital, presente y futuro”, at the IV Jornada de Tecnologías de laInformación y la Comunicación.

[25 September 2003] Bogotá (Colombia)Josep Maria Duart, lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences,delivered the inaugural lecture at the Seminariode Educación y Nuevas Tecnologías organisedby the Asociación Colombiana deUniversidades.

[29 September 2003] 2a. Setmana de la Feina.Fira de BarcelonaLluís Tarín, the Administrator of ContinuingEducation, delivered the lecture “Visió generalrespecte a l’e-learning”. Meritxell Santiago, fromCommunity Services and Galvanisation, gave alecture on “Programes formatius i competènciesadquirides a la UOC. Perfil i valors delsestudiants”. And Joan Cortes, from GEC, tookpart in the Fair with a paper on e-learning ininstitutions and enterprise.

[1 October 2003] Until 5th. Turin (Italy)Jordi Herrera and David Megías, lecturers at the Faculty of Computer Studies and Multimedia, presented a paper at the Conference on Communications and Multimedia Security (CMS 2003).

[9 October 2003] San SebastianAdoració Pérez, from the Library, presented the paper “Las bibliotecas virtuales” at the IIIJornadas de Bibliotecas Judiciales Españolas.

[9 October 2003] Polytechnic University of Catalonia. BarcelonaMarta Enrech, Jordi Serrano and Núria Soler,from the Library, presented the paper “La comuncación científica y las expectativasde los usuarios en las bibliotecas digitales:metabuscadores y gestores de contenidospersonalizables”, at the III Workshop de la Redde Bibliotecas Universitarias sobre ProyectosDigitales.

[14 October 2003] Palacio de Congresos.MadridLluís Tarín, Head of Continuing Education, took part in the round-table “E-learning una nueva cultura de aprendizaje”, during the Net.es3 sessions.

[15 October 2003] Polytechnic University of Catalonia. BarcelonaMontse Guitert, lecturer at the Faculty of Computer Science and Multimedia, gave the paper “Models de participació en xarxa” at the Jornades Vegga - Associació per laInnovació Estratègica. Jordi Alberich, lecturer at the Faculty of Information andCommunication Sciences, and Mireia Pascual,Head of Audiovisual Services, also took part.

[20 October 2003] UOC, Tibidabo building.AuditoriumOpen lecture by John Stephenson, Head of the International Centre for Learner-managedLearning at the University of Middlesex (UK),titled “Capability or competence in highereducation”, included in the Seminari Edu Lab,organised by the area of EducationalMethodology and Innovation.

[20 October 2003] Centre de CulturaContemporània de BarcelonaThe UOC and the Fundació Bofill co-organisedthe Debats d’Educació, inaugurated by JuanCarlos Tedesco, Head of the InstitutoInternacional de Planificación Educativa,Buenos Aires, Argentina.

[23 October 2003] Until 2nd November. ChileAlbert Sangrà, from the area of EducationalMethodology and Innovation, gave the paper“Evaluación y aseguramiento de la calidad enprogramas e-learning” at the seminar “E-learning:desafíos para la educación técnica superior”.

[28 October 2003] Centre Cívic la Sedeta.BarcelonaDavid Martínez, lecturer of the East AsianStudies programme, gave the paper “La llenguai l’escriptura xineses”, included in the “Els dimarts de la Xina” cycle, organised by the Club d’Amics de la UNESCO.

[30 October 2003] BarcelonaThe Rector Gabriel Ferraté delivered the inauguralpaper at the ICDE SCOP 2003 Conference co-organised by the UOC and the InternationalCouncil for Open and Distance Education (ICDE).

[4 November 2003] Centre Cívic la Sedeta.BarcelonaAnna Busquets, Head of the East Asian Studiesprogramme, gave the paper “L’altra meitat delcel: les dones a la Xina”, in a cycle organisedby the Club d’Amics de la UNESCO.

[6 November 2003] Until 7th. MadridSílvia González, from the IN3, presented the project e-learn TN at the EuropeanAssociation Distance Teaching Universities(EADTU) international congress.

[13 November 2003] Aula d’ExtensióUniversitària de SantsAnna Busquets, Head of the East Asian Studiesprogramme, gave the paper “Trets fonamentalsdel món xinès” at a cycle organised by the University of Barcelona.

[13 November 2003] Club d’Amics de laUNESCO. BarcelonaDavid Martínez, lecturer of the East AsianStudies programme, gave the paper “Les rutes de les religions” at the cycle “Els dijous de la ruta de la seda”.

[17 November 2003] Until 18th. Santiago de Compostela (Galicia)The Rector Gabriel Ferraté gave the paper “Las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación al servicio de las personas.Aprender en un mundo global” at the Semanade la Ciencia y la Tecnología.

[19 November 2003] Until 22nd. Seville.Jornadas Andaluzas de DocumentaciónAgustí Canals, Head of the Faculty ofInformation and Communication Sciences, gavethe paper “Formación virtual para losprofesionales de la información”. Pablo Laraand Sandra Sanz, lecturers at this Faculty,intervened in two round-tables on scientificportals and on virtual learning, respectively.

[19 November 2003] Aula d’ExtensióUniversitària “Endavant Sant Martí”Anna Busquets, Head of the East Asian Studiesprogramme, gave the paper “La dona a la Xinaclàssica” at a cycle organised by the Universityof Barcelona.

[20 November 2003] Aula Magna, University of Vic (Osona)Isidor Marí, Head of the Faculty of Humanitiesand Language and Literature, intervened in theround-table “L’ensenyament de les humanitats iles ciències socials” at the XI Debat Universitari,organised by Xarxa d’Universitats Joan LluísVives.

[21 November 2003] SevillePatrícia Riera, from the Library, gave a paper on“Drets d’autor i publicacions electròniques” atthe Jornadas Andaluzas de Documentación.

[25 November 2003] Espai Círcol. ReusThe Rector Gabriel Ferraté gave the paper“Virtualitat, multidimensionalitat i intel·ligènciaambiental. Els nous paradigmes per a lasocietat del coneixement”.

[26 November 2003] University of BarcelonaMario Pérez-Montoro, lecturer at the Faculty of Information and Communication Sciences,presented the paper “El reto de la gestión del conocimiento en la sociedad de lacomunicación” at the Seminari Permanent de Teoria de la Informació i de la Comunicació.

[27 November 2003] AlacantAgustí Canals, Head of the Faculty of Informationand Communication Sciences, and JosepCobarsí, lecturer of that Faculty, intervened in the round-table “La gestión del conocimiento en el entorno de los servicios de información”,organised by the University of Alacant.

[3 December 2003] El Prat de Llobregat.Centre de Cultura Contemporània La CapsaIsmael Peña, Administrator of the Campus forPeace, took part in the debate “Impacte socialde les TIC” included in the III Seminari sobreQuart Món i Exclusió Social.

[4 December 2003] Club d’Amics de laUNESCO. BarcelonaAnna Busquets, Head of the East Asian Studiesprogramme, gave the paper “Els grans viatgersde la ruta de la seda” included in the cycle “Els dijous de la ruta de la seda”.

[4 December 2003] BrusselsThe Rector Gabriel Ferraté intervened in the plenary session of the Information SocietyTechnologic Advisory Group (ISTAG).

[9 December 2003] BarcelonaAgustí Canals, Head of the Faculty of Information and Communication Sciences,and Eva Ortoll, lecturer at that Faculty, calledfor, and moderated, a discussion group withfive Documentation graduates to debate the “Competències i perfils dels gestorsd’informació”.

[12 December 2003] Until 13th. Udine (Italy)Miquel Strubell, lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities and Language and Literature,presented the paper “L’actitud lingüística com a obstacle a l’èxit de l’educació bilingüe” at the congress Denominazione dell’Iniziativa: Il Convegno Internazionale sull’EducazionePlurilingue.

[15 December 2003] MadridThe Rector Gabriel Ferraté gave a paper at the seminar “Nuevas tecnologías y sociedad”,organised by Fundación para el Análisis y los Estudios Sociales (FAES).

[15 December 2003] Until 18th. Puebla (Mexico)Joan Elies Adell, lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities and Language and Literature,intervened in a conference cycle on literatureand the new technologies organised by the Autonomous and Distinguished University of Puebla.

[22 January 2004] MadridRamon Bayán and Antoni Roure, from the areaof Telecommunications, presented a paper onthe Wi-Fi network in labour environments, at the Wlan/Wi-Fi sessions within the Forum 2004.

[3 February 2004] Institut d’Estudis Catalans,BarcelonaJoan Pujolar, Head of the Catalan Language and Literature programme at the Faculty ofHumanities and Language and Literature, gavethe paper “Els discursos sobre la desaparició delcatalà: som on érem?” within the cycle “Diversitatlingüística: els fets, els discursos, la gestió”.

[5 February 2004] BarcelonaThe Rector Gabriel Ferraté delivered the inaugurallecture at the Earth Dialogues Congress organisedby the Forum 2004 and Green Cross.

[10 February 2004] Institut d’Estudis Catalans.BarcelonaIsidor Marí, Head of the Faculty of Humanitiesand Language and Literature, gave the paper“La llengua catalana en el futur ordenamentlingüístic de la UE” included in the cycle“Diversitat lingüística: els fets, els discursos, lagestió”.

[11 February 2004] Auditori del Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya. BarcelonaMiquel Strubell, Head of the Humanitiesprogramme, intervened in the Jornada Dedicadaa les Universitats Multilingües Europees.

[16 February 2004] Sala Bangemann, TibidabobuildingThe Faculty of Law and Political Scienceorganised a lecture under the title “El cos com apassword” given by Professor Stefano Rodotà,President of the Italian Data Protection Agency.

[17 February 2004] Vilafranca del PenedèsJordi Vilaseca, Head of the Faculty ofEconomics and Business Studies, inauguratedthe cycle “Tribuna Oberta Vilafranca” with the lecture on “L’empresa xarxa a Catalunya”.

[20 February 2004] GuadalajaraPatrícia Riera, from the Library, gave a paper onpublic library loans in the face of legal changesat the Jornadas sobre el Préstamo Públicoorganised by the Federación Española deSociedades de Archivística, Biblioteconomía,Documentación y Museística (FESABID).

[1 March 2004] University of BarcelonaMario Pérez-Montoro, lecturer at the Faculty of Information and Communication Sciences,gave the paper “Contextos informacionales yprocesos de comunicación”, included in the 3rdTeoria de la Comunicació Audiovisual seminar.

[3 March 2004] UOC, Tibidabo buildingEva Ortoll, lecturer at the Faculty of Informationand Communication Sciences, gave a lecture inthe virtual course “Gestión del conocimiento ygestión de la información” organised byBibliotecnic, the Peruvian association oflibrarians and documentalists.

[4 March 2004] BarcelonaJordi Vilaseca, Head of the Faculty of Economicsand Business Studies, gave the paper “Les TIC,un sector de futur a Catalunya?” at the TertúliaDigital forum, that brings together management andexecutive staff with Internet and ICTs specialists.

[4 March 2004] University of GironaJosep Lladós, lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, gave the paper “Impacte de l’ampliació europea en l’economia gironina”, included in the session“L’Est: per què?” organised by the Faculties of Economic Sciences and Law.

[5 March 2004] BarcelonaAnna Busquets, Head of the East Asian Studiesprogramme, intervened in the round-table“Dones i història” included in the II Jornades de Dones Fent Història organised bythe Catalan Ministry of Welfare.

[9 March 2004] Cercle Financer de BarcelonaManuel Castells, IN3 Research Professor, gavethe paper “Productividad, competitividad ytecnología en la nueva economía global” at theCercle Financer de Barcelona, an organisationlinked to the Caixa de Pensions savings bank.

[11 March 2004] GandesaJordi Vilaseca, Head of the Faculty ofEconomics and Business Studies, gave the paper “El teletreball a Catalunya: situacióactual i perspectives”, at the Centre deTeletreball de la Generalitat de Catalunya.

[16 March 2004] UOC, Tibidabo building. SalaBangemannIndustrial designer André Ricard gave a paperon design and usability.

[17 March 2004] University of SaragossaRosa Borge, lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Political Science, presented the paper “La participación electrónica: obstáculos,experiencias y futuro” about electronicdemocracy at the II Jornades Infodiez.

[18 March 2004] Col·legi de Periodistes deCatalunya. BarcelonaEva Ortoll, lecturer at the Faculty of Informationand Communication Sciences, intervened in the round-table “Dret social a la informació”jointly organised with the Col·legi Oficial deBibliotecaris i Documentalistes de Catalunya.

[19 March 2004] Edifici Miramar. SitgesMiquel Strubell, Head of the Humanitiesprogramme, gave the paper “Identitat i mitjans de comunicació” at the I Jornades de PensamentObert i Cultura de la Pau, organised by Ethnos.

[25 March 2004] Graduation Hall, Faculty of Pedagogy, University of BarcelonaTeresa Guasch, lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences,intervened in the round-table “La resolucióalternativa de conflictes en l’àmbit educatiu”within a cycle of interprofessional meetings held at the Forum Barcelona 2004 organised by the Col·legi de Llicenciats de Catalunya.

[2 April 2004] BarcelonaAgustí Cerrillo, lecturer at the Faculty of Lawand Political Science, gave the paper“L’Administració i la garantia i la responsabilitaten les transaccions electròniques”, at theSeminari de Dret Local, jointly organised by the Federació de Municipis de Catalunya, theBarcelona City Council, the Barcelona ProvincialCouncil, the Escola d’Administració Pública,and the Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona.

[13 April 2004] Amics de la UNESCO.BarcelonaDavid Martínez, lecturer of the East AsianStudies programme, gave the paper “Tradiciói cultura popular a la Xina tradicional” includedin the cycle “Els dimarts de la Xina: la Xinacontemporània”.

[15 April 2004] MadridJosep Prieto, lecturer at the Faculty of ComputerStudies and Multimedia, presented the paper“Presentación de un caso real del uso del Netlabde Cisco Systems para impartir formación delNetworking Academy Program” at the CiscoNetworking Academy Program 2004 sessions.

[19 April 2004] UOC, Tibidabo building.AuditoriumCampus for Peace and the Faculty ofEconomics and Business Studies presented the Economistes sense Fronteres NGO and the paper “La responsabilitat social corporativa”.

[19.04.04] AndorraThe University of Andorra, in joint collaborationwith the UOC, organised a talk on “La realitatdels mitjans de comunicació a Andorra”.

[20 April 2004] Centre de CulturaContemporània de BarcelonaManuel Castells, researcher and President IN3’sScientific Committee, gave the paper“Educació, aprenentatge i tecnologia a lasocietat del coneixement” at the Debatsd’Educació cycle, jointly organised by te UOCand the Fundació Jaume Bofill.

[20 April 2004] Forum of Cultures. BarcelonaJordi Vilaseca, Head of the Faculty ofEconomics and Business Studies, intervened in the Conferència Internacional sobreSolucions TIC per a les PIME Mediterrànies,where he delivered the inaugural lecture withthe title “Access to the New Economy from the Mediterranean SMEs perspective”.

[26 April 2004] Palma, Majorca (BalearicIslands). University of the Balearic IslandsJordi Alberich, lecturer at the Faculty ofInformation and Communication Sciences, gavethe paper “Programari lliure en l’audiovisual”.

[26 April 2004] BilbaoPau Alsina, co-ordinator of the Artnodes space,presented a paper at Ciberarts 2004: CongresoInternacional de Arte, Ciencia y Tecnología.

[28.04.04] Casa ÀsiaThe East Asian Studies programme organised a round-table with the title “L’Àsia oriental: unaaproximació als aspectes econòmics, culturals i socials”, in which Anna Busquets, Head of the programme, intervened.

[3 May 2004] Cambra Oficial de Comerç,Indústria i Navegació de Barcelona (BarcelonaChamber of Commerce, Industry andNavigation)Jordi Vilaseca, Head of the Faculty of Economicsand Business Studies, gave the paper “TIC icomerç. Les transformacions de l’activitat comerciala Catalunya”, organised by Catalunya 2003.

[4 May 2004] Until 8th. University of Porto(Portugal)Eulàlia Hernández, lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences,presented the work data of the research groupled by lecturer Adriana Gil at the IX EuropeanConference for Research on Adolescence.

[12 May 2004] Until 14th. MadridLecturers Montse Guitert and Teresa Romeupresented the paper “La formación inicial de los formadores de e-learning: el caso de la asignatura Multimèdia i comunicació de la UOC” at the 4ª Conferencia Internacional de la Educación y la Formación Basada en las Tecnologías.

[17 May 2004] Institut d’Estudis Catalans.BarcelonaFrancesc Vallverdú, the Vice Rector forEducational Research, Innovation andMethodology, took part in the round-table“Accés a Internet com a dret universal”.

[18 May 2004] Amics de la UNESCO.BarcelonaDavid Martínez, lecturer of the East AsianStudies programme, gave the paper “Una nova cultura del menjar a la Xina?”included in the cycle “Els dimarts de la Xina: la Xina contemporània”.

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[18 May 2004] King Juan Carlos I University.MadridJordi Vilaseca, Head of the Faculty of Economicsand Business Studies, and Joan Torrent, lecturerat the same Faculty, presented the paper “Haciala empresa red. Las TIC y las transformacionesde la empresa” during a seminar on appliedeconomics organised by this university.

[19 May 2004] Until 21st. New YorkEnric Mor and Julià Minguillón, lecturers at the Faculty of Computer Science andMultimedia, presented the paper “E-learningPersonalization Based on Itineraries and Long-term Navigational Behavior” at theThirteenth International World Wide WebConference (http://www2004.org).

[20 May 2004] UOC, Castelldefels building.AuditoriumThe Faculty of Psychology and EducationalSciences organised the XII DebatInteruniversitari with the title “Innovació endocència universitària i ús de les TIC” within the events of the Institut Joan Lluís Vives.

[26 May 2004] Barcelona. Forum of CulturesGemma Andreu, lecturer at the Faculty ofInformation and Communication Sciences, gave the paper “Porto Franco: la utopia de la comunicació intercultural regional a laxarxa” as part of the Forum’s Dialogues.

[28 May 2004] Instituto de InformáticaJurídica. MadridAna Mª Delgado, lecturer at the Faculty of Lawand Political Science, presented the paper “La utilización de tecnologías informáticas ytelemáticas en la nueva Ley general tributaria”at the XVIII Encuentro sobre Informática yDerecho organised by the Pontifical Universityof Comillas.

[1 June 2004] Sala Mirador, Centre de CulturaContemporània de BarcelonaSessió de Debats d’Educació jointly organisedby the Faculty of Psychology and EducationalSciences and the Fundació Jaume Bofill. JavierElzo, Professor of Sociology at the University of Deusto (Bilbao) and President of the ForumDeusto was in attendance.

[2 June 2004] Until 5th. Porto Alegre (Brazil)David Megías, lecturer at the Faculty ofComputer Science and Multimedia and co-ordinator of the international Master’s courseon Free Software, together with Jordi Mas,academic co-ordinator of the said course,presented the paper “International MasterProgram in Free Software: a Higher EducationExperience” at the 5th International Forum on Free Software.

[11 June 2004] Sala BangemannThe Faculty of Law and Political Scienceorganised the videoconference “Derechosemergentes y nuevos compromisos en el sigloXXI. Hacia la declaración universal de derechosemergentes”. The following intervened: JoséManuel Bandrés, Head of the Institut de DretsHumans de Catalunya and judge of the SpanishSupreme Court; Jaume Saura, lecturer on International Public Law at the University of Barcelona; and doctors Glòria Ramírez andGuillermina Baena, lecturers on Political Scienceat the National University of Mexico.

[16 June 2004] Budapest (Hungary)Nati Cabrera and Cristina Girona, from theEducational Methodology and Innovation area,presented the papers “Promoting the Use ofICT in Primary Schools: The ACTIV-e Project”and “The Balance Scorecard for Methodology:A Tool for Improvement in Higher Education” at the EDEN 2004 Conference.

[16 June 2004] Forum Barcelona 2004Lecturers Montse Guitert and Teresa Romeupresented the paper “El profesor en la red: la formación inicial como motor de cambio”.

[17 June 2004] Hotel Juan Carlos I. BarcelonaJordi Vilaseca, Head of the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, gave a paper on the application of the newtechnologies to enterprise within the frameworkof the 3rd E-sourcing Forum, the sessionsorganised by the Asociación Española delComercio Electrónico (AECE).

[17 June 2004] Gran Hotel Verdi. SabadellThe UOC collaborated with the association that organise the Sabadell Tribuna Obertalunch-and-debate sessions, and invited MiquelRoca i Junyent, barrister and lecturer at the Pompeu Fabra University.

[17 June 2004] Polytechnic University of Catalonia, BarcelonaJordi Vilaseca, Head of the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, deliveredthe closing lecture of the Master’s course on E-business organised by this university.

[21 June 2004] Until 26th. Lugano(Switzerland)Lecturers Montse Guitert, Francesc Giménez,Teresa Romeu and Teresa Lloret presented the paper “Learning and Co-operative Work in a Virtual Setting: The Case of the UOC”at the Ed-Media 2004 Conference.

[22 June 2004] BrusselsElena Barberà, lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences,intervened in the initial evaluation sessions of the European projects taking part in the 2004E-learning European Commission summons.

[23 June 2004] Palma, Majorca (BalearicIslands). University of the Balearic IslandsEva Ortoll, lecturer at the Faculty of Informationand Communication Sciences, gave the paper“L’avaluació contínua a la UOC” included in the Jornades d’Adaptació Metodològica al’Espai Europeu d’Ensenyament Superior.

[5 July 2004] University of Barcelona. PlaçaUniversitat, BarcelonaPau Alsina, lecturer at the Faculty of Humanitiesand Language and Literature, gave the paper“Paisatgisme científic i els seus suggerimentsartístics” included in the cycle “Ciències i arts,espurnes d’amor”.

[12 July 2004] ValenciaManuel Castells, Researching Professor at the IN3, intervened in the debates cycle “Arte y cultura para los nuevos públicos en la eradigital”.

[25 August 2004] Aarhus (Denmark)Pau Alsina, co-ordinator of the Artnodes space,presented the paper “Software Art and PoliticalImplications in Algorithms” at the Read_Me2004. Software Art and Cultures Conference.

Seminars, Sessions, and Conferences

[21 September 2003] Until 28th. Bogota(Colombia)Josep Maria Duart, lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences,intervened in the Asociación Colombiana de Universidades (ASCUN) conference.

[1 October 2003] Support Centre ofBarcelonès. AuditoriumThe Faculty of Humanities and Language andLiterature organised the I Jornada sobre lesProfessions de les Humanitats en la Societatdel Coneixement.

[3 October 03] Until 8th. BarcelonaThe UOC and the Club de Màrqueting deBarcelona organised the sessions “Marketingrelacional e Internet: cómo extraer el máximoprovecho de la inversión en clientes”, in whichlecturers from this university took place.

[6 October 2003] Until 8th. UOC, TibidabobuildingThe UOC hosted the seminar “Educación ynuevas tecnologías en la universidad” organisedby the Centro Interuniversitario de Desarrollo(CINDA), in which lecturers from various LatinAmerican universities intervened.

[9 October 2003] Until 16th. BarcelonaFrancesc Vallverdú, the Vice Rector for Educational Research, Innovation andMethodology, intervened in the sessions “Redespara aprender: nuevo modelo de e-learning”organised by the Enredando Internet portal.

[24 October 2003] UOC, Tibidabo buildingThe Faculty of Law and Political Scienceorganised a session on “Política criminaleuropea e internacional y delincuenciainformática” together with legal firm Uría &Menéndez Advocats.

[29 October 2003] UOC, Tibidabo building.Auditorium The SCOP 2003 (Standing Conference ofPresidents) took place under the motto“Universidades para la sociedad deconocimiento”. It was summoned by the UOCand the International Council for Open andDistance Education (ICDE).

[3 November 2003] Until 7th. UruguayCristina Girona, from the EducationalMethodology and Innovation area, teaches the seminar “Diseño de materiales educativospara entornos virtuales” at the University of the Republic of Uruguay.

[13 November 2003] Until 15. A Coruña(Galicia, Spain)Laura Borràs, lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities and Language and Literature,presented at the “A poesía na aula” seminar the papers: “A linguaxe poética dasvanguardias á poesía electrónica: Camiñosdunha evolución” and “Traballando a poesía en pantalla. Propostas didácticas para a aprendizaxe en rede”.

[24 November 2003] Until 28th. UOC,Tibidabo building and CastelldefelsFirst International Seminar of the UOC’sUNESCO E-learning Chair with the title “Liderar la universidad en la sociedad del conocimiento”.

[27 November 2003] Until 29th. BarcelonaThe Faculty of Law and Political Science andthe Institut Internacional de Governabilitat de Catalunya (IIGC) jointly organised the conference “Democràcia, governabilitat i benestar en les societats globals”. Pere Fabra,the Head of this Faculty, presented a paper.

[27 November 2003] Until 28th. Tenerife(Canary Islands)Jordi Herrera, lecturer at the Faculty of Computer Science and Multimedia, is one of the reporters at the Encuentro Internacionalsobre Sistemas Inteligentes organised by the University of La Laguna.

[28 November 2003] Until 29th. Reus andTortosaThe UOC, the Rovira i Virgili University, and the Catalan Secretariat-General for Youth Affairsjointly organised the session “Els nousciutadans: joventut i mercat de treball”. On Saturday 29th Pilar Ficapal, lecturer at theFaculty of Economics and Business Studies,gave the paper “Immigració i recursos humans:noves perspectives per a noves realitats”. Thesession closed with a round-table on immigrationand the labour market in Catalonia, moderated by Tomàs Herreros, tutor at the Faculty ofHumanities and Language and Literature.

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[12 December 2003] UOC, Tibidabo buildingThe Faculty of Law and Political Science,together with Víctor Ferreres, lecturer at the Escola Judicial and at the Pompeu FabraUniversity and New York University, jointlyorganised a seminar on the reform of the Spanish constitution.

[18 December 2003] Reial Acadèmia de Medicina de Catalunya. Sala GimbernatThe session “Anatomia, balanç i profecia de la literatura catalana” was held as areflection on the literary year just ending and on Catalan literature in general.

[9 January 2004] Until 16th. Bombay (India)Israel Rodríguez, lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences,intervened as a guest researcher at the WorldSocial Forum held in Bombay.

[15 January 2004] UOC, Tibidabo buildingA meeting of the Campus for Peace volunteerswas held.

[15 January 2004] Bologna (Italy)Albert Sangrà, Head of the EducationalMethodology and Innovation area, intervened in the session “La valutazione nell’e-learning”,organised by the University of Bologne, with the presentation “Problematiche valutativenell’università virtuale”.

[22 January 2004] UOC, Tibidabo buildingThe Jornades Tècniques sobre ProgramesInformàtics de Suport a la Llengua are held,organised by the Comissió Tècnica de Llenguaof the Institut Joan Lluís Vives.

[18 February 2004] Hong Kong (China)Ferran Giménez, a lecturer of the DistanceDegree in Multimedia Studies programme, andMiquel Peguera, lecturer at the Faculty of Lawand Political Science, intervened in the 21stICDE World Conference on Open Learning andDistance Education. Ferran Giménez presenteda paper on “Construint ponts entre l’educaciósuperior i el mercat de treball” and MiquelPeguera, “L’experiència del curs sobre pràcticalegal als Estudis de Dret de la UOC”.

[29 February 2004] Palma, Majorca (BalearicIslands). University of the Balearic IslandsTeresa Romeu, lecturer on Multimedia and Communication, together with the rest of authors, presented the paper “Pauta para el análisis de diferentes modelos de educaciónno presencial”, at the IV Congreso InternacionalVirtual de Educación.

[3 March 2004] Oldenburg (Germany)Albert Sangrà, Head of the EducationalMethodology and Innovation area, intervened in the European Distance Education Network(EDEN) Executive Committee’s meeting.

[8 March 2004] Bucharest (Rumania)Lourdes Gil, from the Educational Methodologyand Innovation area, intervened in the co-ordination meeting of the RomanianEuropean eUniversity (RE2U) project. On the last day, she also intervened in the I Policy Seminar of the said project.

[13 March 2004] Barcelona. Caixa FòrumManuel Castells, IN3’s Research Professor,inaugurated the sessions “Els nous paradigmesde l’art” with the paper “Noves tecnologies i canvi social”.

[15 March 2004] Until 19th. CastelldefelsManuel Castells, IN3’s Research Professor;Albert Batlle, Head of the Political andAdministration Sciences programme at the Faculty of Law and Political Science; and Inma Rodríguez, lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, intervenedin the Setmana de les Noves Tecnologies aCastelldefels, organised by the CastelldefelsTown Council at its Centre Frederic Mompou.

[17 March 2004] Until 19th. Palau deCongressos de BarcelonaThe UOC had a stand at Barcelona’sInternational Marketing Meeting. Joan MiquelGomis, lecturer on Tourism, intervened in asession devoted to tourism, as did the team of Inma Rodríguez, from the Faculty of Economicsand Business Studies. It was organised by the Club de Màrqueting de Barcelona.

[22 March 2004] Until 26th. UOCThe second module of the UOC’s UNESCO E-learning Chair International Seminar was held.

[24 March 2004] Until 26th. University of SalamancaMaria Antònia Huertas, lecturer at the Faculty of Computer Science and Multimedia,intervened as IN3’s leading researcher in ameeting of the C@lculus project (logic,demonstration and representation).

[24 March 2004] Until 4th April. CongrésLatinEduca 2004Elena Barberà, lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences,presented a paper on the relation betweendistance education and the autonomy andindependence processes of learners. The seminar was organised by the NationalTechnological University (Argentina), theNational Autonomous University (Mexico), and the Fundación Latinoamericana para la Educación a Distancia.

[26 March 2004] Coma-ruga (Baix Camp)Rafael Macau, Head of the Faculty of ComputerScience and Multimedia, intervened in the 8è.Simposi Universitat i Empresa with the paper“La cara oculta de les noves tecnologies”. Thesymposium was organised by the Rovira i VirgiliUniversity, and the Baix Penedès universityconsortium.

[26 March 2004] Tibidabo Building IV. MeetingRoomThe Faculty of Law and Political Scienceorganised the seminar “Brésil et Europe: les transformations de la dimension sociale de la citoyenneté” taught by Joaquim Leonel de Rezende Alvim, lecturer at the FederalFluminense University (Brazil) and visitinglecturer of the University of Paris.

[29 March 2004] UOC, Tibidabo buildingThe UNESCO E-learning Chair and lecturersIsrael Rodríguez and Jordi Planella of theFaculty of Psychology and EducationalSciences organised the session “Perspectivasocial del E-Learning en la Educación Superior:Universidad y Desarrollo en la Era de laInformación”.

[14 April 2004] Until 16th, Tibidabo building.AuditoriumThe Faculty of Humanities and Language and Literature organised the sessions “Under Construction. Literatures digitals i aproximacions teòriques”.

[15 April 2004] Until 16th. Centre de CulturaContemporània de BarcelonaIsmael Peña, Administrator of the Campus for Peace, intervened in the I CongresoInternacional de E-learning e Inclusión Social,where he presented the paper “El voluntariadovirtual: gestor y transmisor de conocimiento”.

[19 April 2004] Until 24th. University of Louvain (Belgium)Law lecturer Mark Jeffery conducted a researchseminar on the latest developments of European law in the sphere of transfers to enterprise.

[22 April 2004] UOC, Drassanes buildingThe Faculty of Information and CommunicationSciences organised a session in which lecturerMario Pérez-Montoro intervened with the paper“Gestionar el coneixement a lesorganitzacions”.

[22 April 2004] Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)Jordi Vilaseca, Head of the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, intervenedin the Seminario Universidades RegionaisBrasileiras. Elementos para uma proposta,specifically in the round-table “Inovação emCiência e Tecnologia: cultura, políticas públicase iniciativas empresariais”.

[22 April 2004] Barcelona. PIMEC-SEFESbuilding. AuditoriumJoan Torrent, lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, took partin the inaugural session of the cycle of meetingson innovation in enterprise, with the title “La innovació com a eina essencial per a la competitivitat de la PIME gironina,mitjançant l’ús de les noves tecnologies”.

[3 May 2004] Until 7th. The Virtual Universityof Tunisia (Tunisia)Xavier Mas, from the Educational Methodologyand Innovation area, conducted a trainingseminar for virtual trainers within the projectRénovation Pédagogique et Université Virtuelle(RP&UV).

[5 May 2004] Until 7th. LleidaThe UOC and the University of Lleida jointlyorganised the Interacción 2004 conference on human-computer interaction. The followinglecturers took part in it: Rafael Macau, Head of the Faculty of Computer Science andMultimedia; Raquel Navarro, from IN3; andFerran Giménez, Julià Minguillón, Enric Mor and Eugènia Santamaria, lecturers at the saidFaculty.

[6 May 2004] UOC, Tibidabo building.AuditoriumThe Faculty of Law and Political Scienceorganised the session “L’ampliació de la UE: els efectes juridicopolítics”, with thecollaboration of the Patronat Català pro Europa.Pere Fabra, Head of Faculty, and lecturer MarkJeffery took part in it.

[7 May 2004] UOC, Tibidabo buildingThe Faculty of Law and Political Science and publishers Thomson Aranzadi jointlyorganised the Jornades sobre la Reforma Penali Processal Penal, together with the legal firmUría & Menéndez Advocats, under the co-ordination of lecturers Rosa Fernándezand Óscar Morales.

[11 May 2004] Until 12th. MadridAlbert Sangrà, Head of the EducationalMethodology and Innovation area, and JosepM. Duart, lecturer at the Faculty of Psychologyand Educational Sciences and co-ordinator ofthe UNESCO E-learning Chair, intervened in theOnline Educa 2004 conference, as well as inthe meeting of Universia’s scientific committee.

[12 May 2004] MadridThe Online Educa Madrid 2004 conference is held under the motto “Punto de encuentroentre Europa y Latinoamérica”. The inaugurallecture was delivered by the Rector GabrielFerraté.

[14 May 2004] UOC, Tibidabo building.AuditoriumThe Faculty of Law and Political Scienceorganised a session under the co-ordination of lecturer Ana Mª Delgado on the new GeneralTax Law, with the collaboration of legal firmLandwell Abogados y Asesores Fiscales.

[14 May 2004] UOC, Drassanes building.AuditoriumThe Faculty of Economics and BusinessStudies organised the session “Màrquetingelectrònic: estratègia relacional a Internet”. The event opened with a lecture by InmaRodríguez and continue with a round-tablemoderated by lecturer Ana Isabel JiménezZarco, in which three tutors from the Facultytook part: Albert Rof Bertrans, Marc CortesRicart i Francesc Llobet Monclús.

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[21 May 2004] Madrid. Headquarters of theConsejo General de la Abogacía EspañolaCarles Sigalés, the Vice Rector for Faculty and Academic Policy, inaugurated the Jornadessobre la Reforma Penal i Processal Penal,organised by the Faculty of Law and PoliticalScience and publishers Thomson Aranzadi,together with the legal firm Uría & MenéndezAdvocats, under the co-ordination of lecturersRosa Fernández and Óscar Morales.

[25 May 2004] Centre Operatiu de CaixaManresaThe UOC collaborates in the IX Jornadad’Economia de Caixa Manresa, organised by this banking firm. The following took part in the conference: Anthony Giddens, lecturer at the London School of Economics andadvisor to UK Prime Minister Tony Blair; FelipeGonzález, former President of the Spanishgovernment; and Jordi Pujol, former Presidentof the Catalan Autonomous Government(Generalitat de Catalunya).

[28 May 2004] Palma, Majorca (Balearic Islands)Gisela Ametller and Lluís Garay, lecturers at the Faculty of Economics and BusinessStudies, intervened in the I Jornadas deEconomía del Turismo where they presentedthe paper “Innovación y nuevas estrategiascompetitivas en el sector de servicios menosintensivos en conocimiento”.

[31 May 2004] Until 4th June. Cartagena de Indias (Colombia)The UOC’s UNESCO E-learning Chairorganised the seminar “La universidad en la eradel conocimiento. E-learning: liderazgo y gestión del cambio”, with the intervention of Xavier Aragay, the Administrator; FranciscoRubio, Vice Rector for International Relations;Josep M. Duart, lecturer at the Faculty ofPsychology and Educational Sciences and co-ordinator of the UNESCO Chair; and LluísTarín, Head of Continuing Education.

[1 June 2004] Shanghai (China)Francesc Vallverdú, the Vice Rector for Educational Research, Innovation andMethodology, and Francesc Noguera, Head of Information Systems, took part in thesessions “Using Java To Build the DigitalCampus” organised by Sun Microsystems.

[4 June 2004] UOC, Tibidabo building.AuditoriumAna Sofía Cardenal, lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Political Science, co-ordinated and taught the seminar on internationalmediation “Jocs connectats i reputació: un model explicatiu del col·lapse democràtic”.

[10 June 2004] UOC, Tibidabo building.AuditoriumThe Faculty of Economics and Business Studiesorganised the Jornades del Tribunal de Defensade la Competència, with the intervention of LluísFranco, the President of the Tribunal; GabrielFerraté, the Rector; Jordi Vilaseca, the Head of the Faculty of Economics and BusinessStudies; and lecturer Josep M. Batalla.

[15 June 2004] World Trade Centre, BarcelonaThe Faculty of Economics and BusinessStudies and the Cidem co-organised theJornades PIC-Cidem, with the intervention of Professor Manuel Castells and Jordi Vilaseca,the Head of the Faculty, who presented thestudy “Les tecnologies de la informació i lacomunicació i les transformacions a l’empresa”.The Rector Gabriel Ferraté closed the sessions.

[16 June 2004] Forum of Cultures site.BarcelonaThe Virtual Educa conference was held, with the intervention, among other people, of the Rector Gabriel Ferraté. They wereinaugurated by Francisco Rubio, Vice Rector for International Relations. The UOC had astand in the congress precinct.

[18 June 2004] UOC. Tibi 4 Oval RoomThe Faculty of Law and Political Scienceorganised a seminar in which lecturer RosaBorge conducted the session on “Participacióelectrònica: l’estat de la qüestió”.

[26 June 2004] A Coruña (Galicia)Adriana Gil, lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences,intervened in the organisation of the IXCongreso Nacional de Psicología Social, underthe initiative of the University of A Coruña.

[1 July 2004] Until 2nd. GironaAlbert Sangrà, Head of the EducationalMethodology and Innovation area, together with NatiCabrera and Cristina Girona, from the same area,presented the papers “El quadre de comandament:una eina per a la millora metodològica en l’àmbitde l’ensenyament universitari” and “L’avaluaciódels aprenentatges en una universitat virtual” at the 3r. Congrés Internacional DocènciaUniversitària i Innovació (CIDUI).

[5 July 2004] Until 8th. University School of Computer Studies of SabadellJosep Prieto and David Megías, lecturers at theFaculty of Computer Science and Multimedia,co-ordinated the Jornada sobre ProgramariLliure: Iniciació al GNU/Linux, organised by theUOC and included in the Sabadell Universitatinitiative.

[8 July 2004] Faculty of Economics. Universityof ValenciaInma Rodríguez, lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, intervenedin the II Jornadas de la Titulación enInvestigación y Técnicas de Mercado.

[25 August 2004] Until 28th. Paris (France)Adriana Gil, lecturer at the Faculty of Psychologyand Educational Sciences, intervened in the 4S-EASST Meeting, where she read the paper“From Consumption to Production: New MediaTechnology as Relationship Technologies”.

Workshops and Exhibitions

[22 October 2003] Until 3rd November.Havana (Cuba)Pauline Ernest, lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities and Language and Literature,co-ordinated the workshop “Enseñar literatura a los jóvenes. Algunas técnicas para garantizarel éxito en las clases de literatura”, at theconference “Lectura 2003: para leer el XXI”,jointly organised by IBBY and UNESCO.

[20 November 2003] Support Centre of Barcelonès. Drassanes buildingThe Library organised the workshop “Els centres d’informació sota indicadorsempresarials”, jointly organised with the OpenUniversity, Milton Keynes.

[1 May 2004] Until 12th. Jakarta (Indonesia)Carles Fernández, from the IN3, gave a trainingseminar on the UOC methodology, within thecontext of the CAE ELearn co-operation projectbetween Europe and Asia.

[14 June 2004] UOC, Drassanes buildingThe Institut Internacional de Governabilitat de Catalunya and the Consell Assessor per al Desenvolupament Sostenible jointlyorganised the workshop “Institucions per al desenvolupament sostenible” in which RectorGabriel Ferraté intervened.

Courses

[1 October 2003] Until 3rd. UOC, TibidabobuildingPostgraduate Education and the Escuela Virtualde Gobernabilidad organised specific trainingfor Heads of Department from the University ofthe Western Cape and the University of FortHare, both from South Africa, the University ofBotswana, and two UNESCO members.

[20 November 2003] Until 4th December.Col·legi Oficial de Bibliotecaris iDocumentalistes de Catalunya, BarcelonaEva Ortoll, lecturer at the Faculty of Informationand Communication Sciences, taught the course “Competència informacional dels treballadors a les organitzacions”.

[24 November 2003] Until 28th. SalamancaAdoració Pérez and Patrícia Riera, from the Library, taught the course “Servicios deinformación en las bibliotecas virtuales”.

[8 December 2003] Until 12th. Peking (China)Albert Boada, from Faculty Co-ordination andManagement, and Josep Lladós, lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and BusinessStudies, taught a training for trainers coursewithin the context of the IN3’s European projectDEC eLearn.

[10 December 2003] Until 11th. Col·legi Oficialde Bibliotecaris i Documentalistes deCatalunya, BarcelonaPatrícia Riera, from the Library, taught the course “Propietat intel·lectual i serveisd’informació”.

[26 January 2004] Lagos (Nigeria)Jordi Sarriera and José Cátedra, from the UOC’sTechnological Transfer Group, launched a pilottest in e-learning at the University of Lagos.

[23 February 2004] SevillePablo Lara, lecturer at the Faculty of Information and Communication Sciences,taught the course “La gestión de la información+ conocimiento en el ámbito de los serviciospúblicos. La administración electrónica” at theInstituto Andaluz de Patrimonio Histórico.

[10 May 2004] Until 14th. University of SalamancaAdoració Pérez, Head of the Library area, andPatrícia Riera, from the Library, gave a courseon services to virtual library users.

[30 June 2004] Until 2nd July. Elx, AlacantRita Riba, from the IN3 Project Managementoffice, attended the course “Projectes isistemes de gestió de la I+D+i” organised by the Oficina de Transferència de Resultats de la Investigació (OTRI) network.

[9 July 2004] Until 23rd. Polytechnic Universityof Catalonia. Campus Universitari de la Mediterrània, Vilanova i la GeltrúPau Alsina, co-ordinator of Artnodes, run asummer course on “Arts, ciències i tecnologies:cap a un nou Renaixement” organised by theUOC with the collaboration of the PolytechnicUniversity of Catalonia and the Town Council of Vilanova i la Geltrú.

[21 July 2004] Until 13th August. AustralUniversity of Santiago de Chile (Chile)Lecturers Pablo Lara and Francesc Saigi, from the Faculty of Information andCommunication Sciences, taught a course on “Educación a través de las nuevastecnologías de información y comunicación”.

Presentations

[8 September 2003] Until 12th. RemoteSensing’03. BarcelonaJulià Minguillon, Jordi Herrera and DavidMegías, lecturers at the Faculty of ComputerScience and Multimedia, presented the article“Evaluation of Copyright Protection Schemesfor Hyperspectral Imaging”.

[10 September 2003] Palau de la Generalitatde Catalunya. BarcelonaProfessor Manuel Castells presented his trilogyL’era de la informació. Economia, societat icultura, with a videoconference interventionfrom the United States.

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[14 September 2003] Until 17th. ICAAC 43rdAnnual Meeting. ChicagoJulià Minguillon, lecturer at the Faculty ofComputer Science and Multimedia, togetherwith two lecturers from the AutonomousUniversity of Barcelona, presented the article “AConstrained Quantization Algorithm for PulsedField Gel Electrophoresis Pattern Analysis”.

[18 September 2003] Arxiu Històric de laCiutat (Casa de l’Ardiaca). BarcelonaPresentation of the Catalan and Spanisheditions of Els arxius, entre la memòria històricai la societat del coneixement, written by RamonAlberch, and published by Editorial Pòrtic and Editorial UOC respectively.

[13 October 2003] Palacio de Congresos.MadridIsmael Peña, Administrator of the Campus for Peace, presented at the Net.es3 sessionsthe Campus for Peace’s experience in the fieldof virtual volunteering.

[30 October 2003] Faculty of Letters,University of LleidaPresentation of the book Diversitat i políticalingüística en un món global written by MiquelPueyo and Albert Turull and published by Editorial UOC.

[11 November 2003] Until 14th. AlacantJordi Álvarez, lecturer at the Faculty of ComputerScience and Multimedia, presented the article“Automatización de patrones medianteaspectos: camino por cubrir” at the 8asJornadas de Ingeniería del Software y Bases de Datos, organised by the University of Alacant.

[11 November 2003] San SebastianAtanasi Daradoumis and Joan ManuelMarquès, lecturers at the Faculty of ComputerScience and Multimedia, presented the article“Is an Effective Online Group Real Effective?” atthe monographic workshop “Trabajo en grupo yaprendizaje colaborativo” organised by BeatrizBarros, lecturer on Computer Studies at the UNED.

[17 November 2003] BarcelonaMark Jeffery, lecturer at the Faculty of Law andPolitical Science, published the research project“Tecnología informática y privacidad de lostrabajadores”, included in the research group, inRevista Aranzadi de Derecho y NuevasTecnologías.

[2 December 2003] Barcelona. PolytechnicUniversity of Catalonia, North CampusJoan Manuel Marquès, lecturer at the Faculty of Computer Science and Multimedia, read hisPhD thesis with the title LaCOLLA: unainfraestructura autònoma i autoorganitzada per a facilitar la col·laboració.

[9 December 2003] Barcelona, Palau de laGeneralitatJordi Pujol, the President of the CatalanAutonomous Government; Gabriel Ferraté, the Rector of the UOC; Imma Tubella, the ViceRector for Research; Professor Manuel Castells;and the Heads of the Catalonia Internet Project(Projecte Internet Catalunya, PIC) researchproject, presented the PIC document at thePalau de la Generalitat.

[10 March 2004] Autonomous University of BarcelonaAna Gálvez, lecturer at the Faculty ofPsychology and Educational Sciences, read her PhD thesis with the title Posicionamientos ypuestas en pantalla: un análisis de la producciónde sociabilidad en los entornos virtuales.

[18 March 2004] Barcelona. Can GolferichsPau Alsina, from Internet Initiatives, presentedthe Artnodes space, of which he is Codirectorand Editor, published on the UOC Internetportal.

[18 March 2004] Barcelona. Can GolferichsFerran Giménez, lecturer at the Faculty ofComputer Science and Multimedia, presented thevirtual magazine for the UOC multimedia graduate.

[5 April 2004] New YorkRaquel Xalabarder, Head of the Lawprogramme, presented the document“Copyright Exceptions for Teaching Purposes inEurope”, which is the result of an IN3 researchproject, at the sessions on “Global Access toEssential Learning Tools” organised by TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue.

[14 April 2004] Auditorium of the TarragonaPort AuthorityFrancesc González, lecturer of the Tourismprogramme, presented the book Ordenació delterritori i sostenibilitat al Camp de Tarragona,which he wrote jointly with Josep Oliveras.

[7 May 2004] University of BarcelonaEva Rimbau, lecturer at the Faculty ofEconomics and Business Studies, read her PhDthesis that bears the title Un modelo estratégicode los determinantes y consecuencias deltrabajo eventual. Aplicación a los centros parala práctica deportiva de Barcelona.

[13 May 2004] UOC, Tibidabo building.Auditorium. 12 hGerard Ryan, tutor at the Faculty of Economicsand Business Studies, read his PhD thesis titledAn Explanatory Investigation of Waiting on theInternet: Discovering the Concept andDeveloping the Framework.

[2 June 2004] Arteixo (Galicia)Carles Sigalés, the Vice Rector for Faculty andAcademic Policy, and several lecturers from theFaculty of Psychology and EducationalSciences presented the PIC Escola at theFundación Amancio Ortega.

[9 June 2004] UOC, Castelldefels building,9.30 a.m.The Catalonia Internet Project (Projecte InternetCatalunya, PIC) was presented to Carles Solà,the Catalan Minister of Universities, Research,and the Information Society, at an event duringwhich the following intervened: ProfessorManuel Castells; Imma Tubella, the Vice Rectorfor Research; Carles Sigalés, the Vice Rectorfor Faculty and Academic Policy; Eduard Aibar,Head of the doctoral programme; TeresaSancho, academic co-ordinator of the doctoralprogramme; and Jordi Vilaseca, Head of theFaculty of Economics and Business Studies.

[11 June 2004] UOC, Tibidabo building.Auditorium. 7 p.m.Campus for Peace presented the project AbsooCompartir para educar carried out jointly withthe Fundació IWith.org, on the occasion of thevisit by representatives of the Guatemala AdecoNGO.

[22 June 2004] Llibreria La Central del Raval.BarcelonaPresentation of the book Imparables, whichincludes poems, among others, by Joan EliesAdell, lecturer at the Faculty of Humanities andLanguage and Literature.

[30 June 2004] UOCThe Faculty of Law and Political Scienceorganised the presentation of the book El deberde la información y asistencia a los obligadostributarios, written by Ana María Delgado andRafael Oliver, lecturers at this Faculty.

[16 July 2004] UOC, Tibidabo building.Auditorium. 12 noonPresentation of the project Benchmarking de plataformes d’e-learning: anàlisi comparativade plataformes de mercat.

[28.07.04] BarcelonaPresentation of Lletra at the XVIII JornadesInternacionals per als Professors de Català,organised by the Institut Ramon Llull.

[18 August 2004] Universitat Catalana d’Estiu.Prada de ConflentCarles Sigalés, the Vice Rector for Faculty andAcademic Policy, and Josep Maria Mominó,lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology andEducational Sciences, presented the result ofthe first PIC report at a non-university learningsphere.

Institutional Events

[27 September 2003] Ca l’Estruch, SabadellGraduation ceremony of 650 students of therecognised degrees taught in Catalan, and 7students of the Distance Degree in MultimediaStudies. Lluís Ferrer, the Rector of theAutonomous University of Catalonia, acted asSponsor. Actor Jordi Boixaderas from Sabadellpresented the event.

[28 October 2003] Parc Mediterrani de laTecnologia, CastelldefelsJordi Pujol, the President of the CatalanAutonomous Government (Generalitat deCatalunya); Andreu Mas-Colell, the CatalanMinister of Universities, Research, and theInformation Society; Carlos López Blanco, theSpanish Secretary of State forTelecommunications and the InformationSociety; and Gabriel Ferraté, the Rector of theUOC, inaugurated the premises of the IN3,home to the UOC’s Research Institute.

[17 December 2003] IN3 building,CastelldefelsDiploma-awarding ceremony of the UOC’sdoctoral degree DEA (Diploma d’EstudisAvançats). The act was presided over by the Rector, Gabriel Ferraté.

[17 April 2004] Headquarters of the InstitutNacional d’Educació Física de Catalunya(INEFC)The Rector Gabriel Ferraté presided over the celebration of the graduation ceremony of the Postgraduate Training courses.

[8 May 2004] Casa América, MadridFirst graduation ceremony outside Catalonia of 1,500 students of Postgraduate Training, and of 200 of recognised degrees. Joan Soto,Honorary President of Hewlett Packard Spainand Vice President of SEDISI (AssociacióEspanyola d’Empreses de Tecnologies de la Informació), acted as Sponsor.

[30 June 2004] Can Jaumandreu, BarcelonaLaying down of the foundation stone of the UOC building at Can Jaumandreu, in the 22@ area of Barcelona’s Poblenoudistrict. The following took part in theceremony: Gabriel Ferraté, the Rector; JoanClos, the Mayor of Barcelona; Carles Solà, the Catalan Minister of Universities, Research,and the Information Society; Maravillas Rojo,President of Barcelona Activa; and LluísCasamitjana, CEO of Espais Sabadell.

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