Coimbra group

Coimbra Group Coimbra Group asbl (CG)
Chair:	Ludovic Thilly
Executive Director:	Inge Knudsen
Establishment date:	1985
Number of members:	39
Seat :	Brussels
Website:	www.coimbra-group.eu

The Coimbra Group (CG) is a network founded in 1985 and currently consists of 39 European universities . The legal status of the group is that of a non-profit making association (asbl) under Belgian law. The group is represented by the general assembly. The group is based in Brussels , the main administrative center of the European Union .

The elite League of European Research Universities (LERU) with 23 members is more influential , and the European University Association (EUA) with around 850 members is broader . There are also other university lobby organizations .

The group is named after the Portuguese city of Coimbra , whose university was founded in 1290.

Self-sight

The group sees itself as an organization of traditional, European, multidisciplinary universities of a high international format.

The statutory purpose of the organization is to create academic and cultural connections for the benefit of all members as well as internationalization and academic cooperation. The pursuit of excellence in teaching and research and serving society in general unites the members.

One goal is a lively exchange of ideas. Another aim of the group is to jointly influence educational policy at national and European level.

Members

The 19 founding members are marked with a star.

Belgium Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Université catholique de Louvain *  Denmark Aarhus University *  Germany Georg-August University of Göttingen * Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg * University of Cologne Friedrich Schiller University Jena Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg *  Estonia University of Tartu  Finland Åbo Akademi , Turku Turku University  France University of Montpellier University of Poitiers *  Ireland Trinity College (Dublin) * National University of Ireland, Galway *  Italy University of Bologna * University of Padua University of Pavia * University of Siena *  Lithuania Vilniaus universitetas  Netherlands Reich University of Groningen University of Leiden *

Norway University of Bergen  Austria Karl Franzens University Graz  Poland Jagiellonian University of Krakow  Portugal University of Coimbra *  Romania Alexandru Ioan Cuza Iași University  Russia Saint Petersburg State University  Sweden Uppsala University  Switzerland University of Geneva  Spain University of Barcelona University of Granada * University of Salamanca *  Czech Republic Charles University Prague  Turkey Istanbul University  Hungary Loránd Eötvös University , Budapest  United Kingdom Bristol University Durham University University of Edinburgh *

former members

 France

• University of Caen *
• University of Lyon

 Greece

• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki *

 United Kingdom

• University of Cambridge
• University of Oxford *

See also

• Russell group
• CLUSTER

Web links

• Official Websites (English)
• Literature by and about Coimbra group in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Executive Board. Accessed July 31, 2019 .  
2. ↑ coimbra-group.eu ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Tania Rabesandratana: European research universities form a new lobby organization-but did they need it? Science, 2016, doi: 10.1126 / science.aag0590 .
4. ↑ Coimbra Group Mission Statement ( Memento of the original dated August 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 75 kB): "Work with European Union (EU) institutions [...] to the benefit of its members", "promote the group", "Ensuring that information [...] is widely disseminated [...] and brought to the attention of the relevant authorities [...] " 
5. ↑ http://www.coimbra-group.eu/wp-content/uploads/CG-Foundation-Charter.pdf CG Foundation Charter
6. ↑ ^{a b} Membership List 2013 ( Memento from May 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )