Inaugural lectures

Challenges and opportunities of the university in a global context

Jaume Pagès, CEO of Universia, talks to Jordi Planella, Dean of the UOC's Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences. 

The Future of Universities in Europe

Xavier Prats, Deputy Director-General for Education at the European Commission.  

The European Higher Education Area (EHEA), key to employability and international cooperation

Guy Haug, President of the Advisory Board of the UOC International Graduate Institute and European expert in higher education systems, and university assessment and development. 

Between Consevatism and Messianism: Is Technology Really Changing Student Expectations in Higher Education? 

By Francesc Pedró, Senior Policy Analyst, OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI), Paris.

The challenges to understanding: a bridge or drifting

By Mustapha Cherif, Philosopher, lecturer of International Relations. Director of the UOC's Arabic and Islamic Studies. 

Planning and Beyond in the Globalising World

By Alfonso Vegara, President of the Fundación Metrópoli. 

Intelligent cities

By William J. Mitchell, Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Learning to live together

By Mustapha Cherif, Philosopher and Lecturer at Algiers University. 

The biases of electricity

Derrick de Kerckhove, Director of the McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology and Professor in the Department of French at the University of Toronto. 

ICT in Education: possibilities and challenges

Martin Carnoy, Stanford University. 

eGovernment for Europe's public services of the future

Erkki Liikanen, European Commissioner responsible for Enterprise and Information Society.

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New technology: an opportunity for humanitarian action

Juan Manuel Suárez del Toro, President of the Spanish Red Cross.