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Murcia, April 27, 2012. - On 3 and 4 May, Murcia is the capital of Spanish and Latin American University in hosting the XII General Meeting of Universia, the largest network of universities in Portuguese-speaking, formed by 1,232 academic institutions in 23 countries.
Is expected to attend the heads of the 79 universities that are Universia Spain and Emilio Botin, chairman of Banco Santander Universia and accompanied by Adelaida de la Calle, president of the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (CRUE) Jose Antonio Cobacho, rector of the University of Murcia, Jaume Pagès, CEO of Universia, and Jose Antonio Villasante, general manager and director of Banco Santander Santander Universities Global Division.
The meeting will analyze the activities carried out in 2011 and laid out the lines of future action.
The highlight of last year were the initiatives that have facilitated the integration into the labor of 330,568 college and work experience another 25,000 professionals.
All this, through Employ Universia (http://emplea.universia.es/home/) and in collaboration with universities and companies.
Other items of note are the OpenCourseWare, which in 2011 provided access to 1,776 subjects, the Global Resource Portal, which included 26,000 courses or the Resource Library, which contributed over 15 million files of 213 collections.
The university also have their own space Universia like Portal Scholarships, which in 2011 released 33,764 calls, as well as participation in contests and competitions online.
Universia participated in the organization of six contests in 2011 who got 8 million online votes.
Amongst them Fototalentos, whose winners will receive the award on May 4 in Murcia.
Universia has over 158,000 followers on Facebook and Twitter.
Support for Universia is a highlighted area of ​​activity of the Santander Universities Global Division, Banco Santander, which is the backbone of social action of the bank and allows you to maintain a stable alliance with more than 1,010 universities in America, Asia and Europe.
More information www.santander.com / universities.
A full schedule of activities
The twelfth Annual General Meeting of Universia also includes the "Meeting Agora Santander-Universidad de Murcia", on May 3, which have been invited Spanish and foreign students from the universities of Alicante, Miguel Hernandez, Technical University of Cartagena and Murcia that have benefited from any of the Santander Scholarship programs.
At this meeting, the university will analyze what values ​​to defend and spread, and the possibilities it opens an enterprising idea and a scholarship.
Among those attending will receive their awards and the winners of the short stories "A scholarship, a story", organized by Agora Santander, the social network formed by university students who have received a scholarship Santander.
Banco Santander gives more than 21,000 scholarships and grants each year to scholars from around the world.
It also held the meeting of the board of RedEmprendia, the Latin American university network of business incubators, with the support of Banco Santander through Santander Universities and involving 20 universities in Spain and Latin America.
This network aims to promote an environment conducive to entrepreneurship and universities that are hosting your business incubators in over 400 new business projects a year.
It also awarded prizes for OpenCourseWare Universia Awards and Uniproyecta, created by the Network of Student Affairs (RUNAE) with the support of Universia to encourage the entrepreneurial spirit of the university.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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