Academic exchange between SPbU and University of Alicante
St Petersburg University and University of Alicante are going to encourage academic exchange. The Universities reached an agreement during the visit paid by Vice President of International Relations Juan Llopis to St Petersburg.
Today, SPbU has about 20 partner-universities in Spain, among them are University of Barcelona, University of Valencia, University of Granada and others, says Deputy Rector for International Relations Sergei Andrushin. The University of Alicante is not among them yet, but the universities have agreed to prepare a draft of the collaboration agreement to start academic exchange in the winter semester.
The first things to decide are to define how we are going to collaborate, within a partner agreement or within the programmes, for example, Erasmus+, and the number of students.
Academic exchange is the first step on the road to the collaboration between the two universities. The University of Alicante is proud to have SPbU as a partner: in e-resources exchange, research and joint degree programmes as the University of Alicante proposes to hold defenses of post-graduate theses in Spain and in SPbU to gain a joint degree, says Juan Llopis. «Today our University educates and prepares more than 200 international students, — said Juan Llopis. — We are interested to encourage collaboration with the universities globally, as we are fully aware that today the university should be global, rather than European only”.
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The University of Alicante was created in 1979 on the structure of the University Study Centre (CEU), which was a legal successor of the University of Orihuela founded in the 16th century. Today the University’s staff is about 38,000 and the total student body is 32,000. The University is a Spain’s leading university in economics, business, chemistry and other fields.