University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)

The University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) was founded in 1968 and recognized under the present title in 1980. It is the only public university in the Basque Country, and it is a member of ENLIGHT, a European University alliance of ten Universities from ten European countries (Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland).

The training offer of the UPV/EHU is quite wide: 67 Bachelor´s Degrees, 103 master programs, 44 expert diplomas and 71 PhD programs. There are also research groups. In 2021 there were 289 groups, with, for example, a production of 465 theses in 2020-21 (42% international and 13 % in the Basque language) and 3713 scientific publications in 2020.

Taking part in the LeaderSHIP Project, the members of the UPV/EHU are all from the School of Engineering of Bilbao, which is lay out in three different buildings. Two of them in Bilbao and one in Portugalete (the Nautical Branch). In the School ,there are 4750 Students, 550 Lecturers, 130 Researchers and 150 Services personnel. Two departments are involved: the Energy Engineering department and the Business Organization Department.

Within the Project, the University of the Basque Country will be involved mainly in Work Package 2 (Strategic and sustainable cooperation on skills) in tasks 4, 5 and 6; in Work Package 3 (Curricula Design) in tasks 1 and 2; and above all, in Work Package 4 (Training Provision), developing training/learning methodologies and technologies, piloting the courses and developing a sectoral approach towards the transfer and validation of training.