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Established	1985
Members	38
Continent	Europe
Countries	mostly EU countries also Norway and Switzerland
Honorary President 2006-2007	Jorma Mattinen, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Chairman of the Executive Board	Guido Langouche, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Office Director	Inge Knudsen
Address	Egmontstraat 11, rue d'Egmont 1000 Brussels Belgium
Acronym	CG
Homepage	http://www.coimbra-group.eu

The Coimbra Group (CG) is a network of European universities that gathers 38 universities, some of which are among the oldest and most prestigious in Europe. It was founded in 1985 and formally constituted by charter in 1987.
The group took its name from the city of Coimbra, Portugal, and the university located there, itself one of the oldest in Europe.

Mission

The Coimbra Group is:

Activities

In pursuit of its Mission the Coimbra Group aims to:

Facilitate knowledge transfer between its constituent universities by means of staff and student interchange so that they can benefit from the added value given by membership of the Coimbra Group, whilst respecting the cultural and national identities of individual universities and their individual freedom in learning and research.
Work with European Union (EU) institutions with a view to participating in or organizing EU higher education and research projects to the benefit of Coimbra Group members.
Contribute to the debate within Europe on quality in higher education and promote the adoption of quality assurance mechanisms within its member universities.
Become a driving force in the creation and further development of the European Higher Education Area and promote the academic expertise of its members within this area and the European Research Area.
Be recognized as an expert body, able to advise its members and EU institutions on various matters relating to higher education, such as information technology (IT) as applied to new teaching methods and lifelong learning.
Encourage co-operation in cultural, social and sporting activities between its members.
Promote the Coimbra Group worldwide as a source of academic excellence in Europe, with a view to attracting students to the universities in the Coimbra Group and encouraging academic collaboration and interchange with its members.

Members

University of Graz

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Dutch-speaking)

Université catholique de Louvain (French-speaking)

Charles University in Prague

University of Aarhus

University of Tartu

Åbo Akademi University

University of Turku

University of Lyon

University of Montpellier (Montpellier is treated as 3 institutions)

University of Poitiers

Georg-August University of Göttingen

Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg

Friedrich Schiller University of Jena

University of Würzburg

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Eötvös Loránd University

National University of Ireland, Galway

University of Dublin (Trinity College Dublin, sole constituent college of the university)

University of Bologna

University of Padua

University of Pavia

University of Siena

University of Groningen

Leiden University

University of Bergen

Jagiellonian University

University of Coimbra

University of Iaşi

University of Barcelona

University of Granada

University of Salamanca

Uppsala University

University of Geneva

University of Bristol

University of Cambridge

University of Edinburgh

University of Oxford

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