SGroup - Universities in Europe

SGroup is an international non-profit association under Spanish law for modern and internationally oriented universities to expand collaboration opportunities in education and research through the transfer of knowledge and the development of strategic alliances. This dynamic network was established in 1988, and currently, its head office is located in Porto, Portugal. 

It is composed of modern, internationally oriented Higher Education Institutions:

• 1. Full Members: 39 universities from 21 European countries;
  2. Associate Members: 6 universities from 6 non-European countries.

 

Our Member Universities work closely together to strengthen their institutional capacities, reinforce their international visibility and improve the quality of their governance, teaching, research and administrative practices while developing their internationalisation processes.

In total, SGroup members participate in 27 European University Alliances financed by the Erasmus+ Programme.

 

What we do

 

SGROUP RECOGNITION AND AWARDS

Following the decision taken at the SGroup Executive Committee Meeting held in Rouen, France in October 2013, the Executive Committee launched a special IMPACT Award for the most:

Integrating

Motivated

Participative and

ACTive members

in recognition of their efforts at the operational level within the SGroup Network.

Over the years several bottom-up initiatives have been proposed and implemented by individual members. New ideas were formed and shaped into activities and new dynamics have been created to benefit the collaboration between SGroup members.

Therefore, in order to acknowledge the special contribution of one of the most active members, the IMPACT Award is granted on an annual basis according to the following criteria:

• Active member in the Network;
• Creation of collaborative relations among the Group and beyond;
• Designing and implementing joint activities with the participation of several members (LOS, Teaching/Research staff or Students);
• Developing joint projects involving at least three members of the Network;
• Encouraging the transfer of know-how, best practices and innovative perspectives among SGroup members;
• Putting forward bottom-up initiatives and projects to directly benefit the member Institutions;
• Promoting SGroup activities;
• Effective Communication with the members.