Coimbra Group

The Coimbra Group (GC) is an international association of 41 universities in Europe. It was established in 1985.[2] It works for the benefit of its members by promoting "internationalization, academic collaboration, excellence in learning and research, and service to society" through "creating special academic and cultural ties", by lobbying at the European level, and by developing best-practice.[3]

For the 17th-century group of Jesuits, see Conimbricenses.
Coimbra Group
AbbreviationCG
Location
Honorary President (2018-2019)
Rector Patrick Gilli
University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3
Executive Board Chair
Ludovic Thilly
University of Poitiers
Office Director
Emmanuelle Gardan[1]
Websitewww.coimbra-group.eu

History
The group takes its name from the city of Coimbra, Portugal and the university located there.

The Coimbra Group was founded in 1985 and formally constituted in 1987 by a charter signed between its members, then numbering 19.[4] In 1994 it published Charters of Foundation and Early Documents of the Universities of the Coimbra Group.[5] A second edition was published in 2005, by which time Caen had left the group while Bergen, Geneva, Graz, Lyon, Padua, Tartu and Turku had joined.[6]

In 2013 the group consisted of 40 universities,[7][8] but by the following year this had fallen to 37 with the departures of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), the University of Cambridge (UK) and the University of Oxford (UK).[9] Since then, the Group has added Vilnius University (Lithuania) in June 2015[10] and Durham University (UK) in June 2016.[11] This brought the membership of the group to 39,[12] but it subsequently fell to 38 in October 2016, when the University of Lyon (France) decided to leave the Group.[13] At the General Assembly in June 2017, the University of Cologne was invited to join as the 39th member.

Members

As of July 2020, the Coimbra Group includes 41 universities in 23 countries:[14] Founder members are marked *, either on this list or the list of former members.

 Austria
 Belgium
 Czech Republic
 Denmark
 Estonia
 Finland
 France
 Germany
 Hungary
 Ireland
 Italy
 Lithuania
 Netherlands
 Norway
 Poland
 Portugal
 Russia
 Romania
 Spain
 Sweden
  Switzerland
 Turkey
 United Kingdom

Former members

References
  1. "New Office Director of the Coimbra Group | Coimbra". www.coimbra-group.eu.
  2. "Coimbra Group Universities". www.coimbra-group.eu. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
  3. "Mission statement". Coimbra Group. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  4. "Foundation Charter" (PDF). Coimbra Group. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 February 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  5. Jos. M. M. Hermans; Marc Nelissen (1994). Charters of Foundation and Early Documents of the Universities of the Coimbra Group. Coimbra Group. ISBN 9789036704359.
  6. Jos. M. M. Hermans; Marc Nelissen (2005). Charters of Foundation and Early Documents of the Universities of the Coimbra Group. Leuven University Press. p. 8. ISBN 9789058674746.
  7. "NUI Galway hosts Coimbra Group Annual Conference, 2013℅". NUI Galway. 20 May 2013. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  8. "Members". Coimbra Group. Archived from the original on 2 May 2013. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  9. "CG Member Universities" (PDF). Coimbra Group. October 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-04-21. Retrieved 2014-04-20.
  10. "The CG welcomes Vilnius University". 30 June 2015. Archived from the original on 2 March 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  11. "Durham forges new links with European universities". Durham University. 13 June 2016.
  12. "Coimbra Group at a glance" (PDF). Coimbra Group. June 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-10-13. Retrieved 2017-03-02.
  13. "CG Member Universities" (PDF). Coimbra Group. October 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 March 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  14. "List of Members". Coimbra Group. Retrieved 18 July 2020.
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