Networks

COIMBRA GROUP

Founded in 1985 and formally constituted by Charter in 1987, the Coimbra Group is an association of long-established European multidisciplinary universities of high international standard.
 The Coimbra Group is committed to creating special academic and cultural ties in order to promote, for the benefit of its members, internationalisation, academic collaboration, excellence in learning and research, and service to society.
 It is also the purpose of the Group to influence European educational policy and to develop best practice through the mutual exchange of experience.
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LATINUS NETWORK

The LATINUS network is a university-level network of Latin higher education establishments. Its aim is to promote cultural diversity within a Latin environment in order to create an international perspective in a Latin setting.
 These establishments are committed to carrying out joint research and training programmes. They are also committed to supporting academic mobility within the network, while opening the network to the outside world through the networks established by each university.
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EMUNI

The Euro-Mediterranean University (EMUNI University), based in Piran-Portorož, Slovenia, was founded on 9

 June 2008.
 The mission of the University is to provide an international post-university higher education institution based in the Euro-Mediterranean area. The founders of the EMUNI University are universities and other higher education and research establishments.
 The EMUNI University operates on the principle of providing a “university for universities”. It aims to consolidate respect for academic standards and react to initiatives undertaken by its founding organisations in both education and research matters.  
 The EMUNI Centre carries out the tasks of the Secretariat of the University. The University receives funding from a variety of sources: public, private and State, but also from the European Union budget. One of the most significant sources of funding is the money raised by the EMUNI Foundation.
 One of the first steps at the time of creation of the EMUNI University was the signing of the Founding Act. The institutions that signed this Act have the right to name their representative in the General Assembly called to adopt the University statutes. To date, 96 institutions and 29 States have signed the Founding Act.

AGENCY FOR FRENCH-SPEAKING UNIVERSITIES (AUF)

The Agency for French-Speaking Universities (Agence universitaire de la Francophonie – AUF) is present on every continent and has more than 427 agents divided among 66 branches attached to nine bureaus.
 Since 1989, this association of universities has been a key operator among French-speaking institutions. It provides a partner for higher education and research establishments that have chosen French as their teaching language and offers a number of cooperation programmes, particularly in the areas of support to research and teaching in French.
 Each year the agency awards more than 2000 grants as part of its mobility programme.
 The development of the AUF bears witness to its renown within the best universities, but also to the attractive nature of French as a language of teaching and culture on an international level.