College dormitories near Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

The Universitat Oberta de Catalunya is a distance university born in 1995 committed to the social transformation value of education and culture. The UOC promotes creativity, innovation, cooperation and exchange between its university community, the rest of the universities, institutions, the business community and Catalan civil society.

The primary objective of the UOC is that each person can satisfy their learning needs with maximum access to knowledge. For this purpose, the University intensively uses information and communication technologies (ICT) and offers an educational model based on personalization and permanent support of the student, beyond of the limitations of time and space.

The five values that govern the actions of the UOC are:

Commitment: to students, graduates and society; with the quality of services and innovation as a constant of the organization

Respect: for people, for ideas, for cultures and for the world

Transparency: in information, data and processes

Professionalism: empowering people who are part of the organization, recognizing successes and learning from mistakes

Sustainability: economic, social and environmental of the activity undertaken by our organization

Mission

The UOC is an innovative university, rooted in Catalonia and open to the world, which trains people throughout life, contributing to their progress and that of society, while carrying out research on the knowledge society. Its educational model is based on personalization and student support through e-learning.

 Vision

The UOC wants to be a university that, connected in a network with the rest of the world's universities, promotes the construction of a global space of knowledge and frontier research in the knowledge society. Innovates in the  own educational model that focuses on the student, offering quality and customizable training, to promote their competitiveness and contribute to the progress of society.