University of Pablo de Olavide

University of Pablo de Olavide
founding	1997
Sponsorship	state
place	Seville , Spain
Rector	Vicente C. Guzman Fluja
Students	12,082 (2018/19)
Website	www.upo.es

UPO campus

The University Pablo de Olavide (Spanish: Universidad Pablo de Olavide ) is a public university in Seville ( Spain ).

University profile

It was founded in 1997 , making it one of the youngest public universities in Spain. The UPO has around 12,000 students, making it smaller than the older and better-known University of Seville (Spanish: Universidad de Sevilla ). The UPO campus of around 140 hectares is located on the south-eastern outskirts of Seville, the capital of Andalusia .

The UPO bears its name in honor of the Hispanic-Peruvian enlightener and politician Pablo de Olavide y Jáuregui (1725–1803), who worked in Seville as town planner and reformer of the University of Seville. The naming is intended to express the desire to open up to Latin America ; this is implemented u. a. through cultural and scientific collaborations with Latin American universities.

The campus was established during Franquism in the early 1950s. From 1956 until its dissolution in 1978, the Universidad Laboral "José Antonio Primo de Rivera" was located there, where workers or their children could take an apprenticeship, master craftsman or advanced training course.

Faculties

There are six faculties :

• Faculty of Economics ( Ciencias Empresariales )
• Fac. For Experimental Sciences ( C. Experimentales )
• Fac. For Sport ( Deporte )
• Fac. For Law ( Derecho )
• Faculty of Human Sciences ( Humanidades )
• Faculty of Social Sciences ( C. sociales )

Research centers

The university has the following research centers:

• CABD (Andalusian Center for Developmental Biology ; Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarollo ), a leading interdisciplinary center for developmental biology in Spain
• Center for Political Sociology ( Centro de Sociología Política )
• CICSMA (Research Center for Social and Environmental Accounting ; Centro de Investigación en Contabilidad Social y Medioambiental )
• America College ( El Colegio de América ), a platform for promoting Latin American and Caribbean studies and cooperation with local universities.

Special programs and grants

Numerous programs and international scholarships are offered to enable students to study abroad, including:

• Erasmus program
• Atlanticus program (bilateral programs for stays in the USA, Canada and Australia)
• PIMA (“Intercambio y Movilidad Académica”, program of the Organization of Ibero-American States)
• Mexicalia program (bilateral program for stays in Mexico)
• UPO-PUCP program (bilateral program for stays in Peru)
• "Becas Iberoamérica Santander" program

See also

• List of universities in Spain
• University of Seville

Web links

• Homepage of the University of Pablo de Olavide (Spanish, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.upo.es/rectorado/rector/
2. ↑ https://www.upo.es/transparencia/tema/estudiantes/numero-de-alumnos-matriculados/
3. ↑ ^{a b} Presentation of the UPO by the Rector ( Memento of the original of February 21, 2009 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. 
4. ↑ Short biography of Pablo de Olavide y Jáuregui ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Patricia Delgado Granados: La universidad de los pobres. Historia de la Universidad Laboral sevillana y su legado a la ciudad. Seville 2005.