Pontevedra Campus

The Pontevedra campus is one of three campuses that host the University of Vigo. It is located in the Spanish city of Pontevedra and offers undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral studies in Social sciences, health sciences, arts, engineering and Sports.[2]

Pontevedra Campus
Campus de Pontevedra
Casa de las Campanas, Rectorate
TypePublic University
Established1990
AffiliationUniversity of Vigo
RectorJorge Soto
Students4027[1]
Location
Pontevedra
,
Province of Pontevedra, Galicia
,
Spain

42°26′23.5″N 8°38′18.0″W
CampusA Xunqueira, City centre
Website

History

The Pontevedra Campus has its origins in the Normal school located in the city, which since the 19th century has been the Normal school of the province of Pontevedra and the School of Nursing dependent on the Provincial Council of Pontevedra (Diputación Provincial de Pontevedra). The Normal school of Pontevedra, the origin of the current Faculty of Education (created en 1998), was created in 1845 and the School of ATS (Ayudante Técnico Sanitario), the origin of the current School of Nursing, was created in 1974.[3] These two schools have offered for many years the university studies par excellence of the city of Pontevedra, in addition to the UNED Regional Centre in the province of Pontevedra, which was created in 1973 and is located in the Monte Porreiro district of the city, where a wide range of university studies can be followed (Different engineering studies, History, Mathematics, Law, Physics, Chemistry, Psychology, Foreign Languages, Sociology, Economics, Commerce, Pedagogy, etc.).

With the division of the University of Santiago de Compostela into three universities, the Pontevedra Campus was created in 1990 and new faculties were established in the city. The offer of university studies in Pontevedra has been extended with new degrees and courses.

The first faculty that started on the Pontevedra campus in 1990 was the Faculty of Fine Arts. In 1991, a second engineering school joined it, the School of Forestry Engineering.

In 1993, the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication was created, starting with a first degree in Advertising and Public relations in 1994 and in 1995, the Faculty of Physiotherapy began to operate. Later, in 2009, the University Centre of Defence was created, depending on the Campus of Pontevedra, in the Military Naval School of Marín, located in the urban area of Pontevedra, 6 kilometres from the city, where industrial engineering studies are offered.[4]

There are plans to establish two more faculties on the campus in the near future, the Faculty of Design and Creative Studies[5] and the Faculty of Public Administration and Management.[6][7]

In recent years, the Pontevedra campus has specialised in the field of creation, taking the name Campus CREA.[8]

The Pontevedra campus was declared a Green Campus on 18 November 2015,[9] · [10] being the first in Spain to achieve this distinction.[11]

The American coffee chain Starbucks has opened a space in the Faculty of Education and Sport in September 2019.[12]

Description

Organization

The Pontevedra campus is located in the area of A Xunqueira, in the north of the city. From an urban point of view, it has a central roundabout and several streets with multiple parking spaces, including those for students.

There are a total of four faculties on this campus: the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication, the Faculty of Physiotherapy, the Faculty of Education and Sport and the College of Forestry Engineers.

The central campus library is located on the ground floor of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication, and the documentation delivery and collection centre (LERD) of the Galician university system is located in the School of Forestry Engineering.

In the city centre there is the Faculty of Fine Arts, located next to the Plaza de España in the eclectic 19th century building of the former Saint Ferdinand Barracks, and the School of Nursing, located in the Provincial Hospital of Pontevedra.

Every year, the Pontevedra campus welcomes Erasmus students from universities in other countries, whose numbers have increased in recent years.[13] To facilitate their stay in the city, the Erasmus Student Network has a branch located in dedicated premises at the engineering school.[14]

Institutions

The university institutions present in Pontevedra are the following:

  • The headquarters of the Vice-Rectorate of the campus in the House of the Bells, in the old town centre. The owner of this historic building is the City Council of Pontevedra, which has temporarily ceded part of its building to the university.[15]

The city is also home to the Higher School of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property in Galicia.

In 2015, the Pontevedra campus had 4,000 Students enrolled. In the 2014–2015 academic year, it was the campus with the highest occupancy rate in the University of Vigo in the first year of study, with 97%.[16][17]

The university degrees on campus with the highest employment rate are Physiotherapy (93%) and Advertising and Public Relations (86.6%).[18]

Infrastructures

The university campus has a kindergarten at its northern end, which is mainly dedicated to the children of the staff of the A Xunqueira school zone and is integrated into the network of Kindergartens of the Xunta de Galicia A galiña azul (The Blue Hen). On the other hand, the Pontevedra hospital complex became in 2012 the University Hospital Complex of Pontevedra (CHU), where medical students from the Faculty of Santiago de Compostela can carry out their final years of study.

Traditions and culture

At the end of April, the main festival on the Pontevedra campus, Santa Catabirra, is dedicated to the patron saint of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication, Saint Catherine of Siena. Thousands of young people from all over Galicia participate in this festival.[19] The celebrations of Saint Ero, patron saint of the Faculty of Fine Arts, are also of some importance.

  • Faculty of Fine Arts
  • Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication
  • Faculty of Physiotherapy
  • School of Forestry Engineering
  • Faculty of Education and Sport Sciences
  • Campus crèche
  • Faculty of Fine Arts
  • Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication
  • Entrance to the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication
  • Entrance to the Faculty of Fine Arts
  • School of Forestry Engineering
  • Faculty of Fine Arts
  • University Centre of Defence
  • Faculty of Education and Sport Sciences

References
  1. "El campus de Ourense cuenta con 4.500 alumnos matriculados". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 23 November 2017.
  2. "La futura titulación en Deseño del campus se impartirá en Benito Corbal". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 24 April 2021.
  3. "Enfermería, de escuela a facultad: un largo camino para integrarse en la Universidade". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 20 March 2021.
  4. "Centro Universitario de la Defensa". CUD (in Spanish). 20 October 2013.
  5. "La Universidad aprueba la creación de la Facultad de Diseño y Creación en Pontevedra". Pontevedra Viva. 29 July 2019.
  6. "La Facultad de Gestión Pública inicia su creación". La Región. 18 February 2020.
  7. "Piden que el grado de Dirección y Gestión Pública cuente con facultad propia". Pontevedra Viva (in Spanish). 17 February 2020.
  8. "Pontevedra no quiere perder el tren como campus de especialización". La Voz de Galicia. 20 June 2020.
  9. ""Tenemos que modificar hábitos de consumo para que sean sostenibles"". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 9 February 2020.
  10. "¿Cuántas emisiones de CO2 evitan los paneles fotovoltaicos del campus de Pontevedra?". La Voz de Galicia. 23 March 2021.
  11. "El PSOE apuesta por potenciar el campus de Pontevedra y extender su 'modelo verde' a la ciudad". Pontevedra Viva (in Spanish). 7 July 2020.
  12. "Starbucks aterriza en el campus de Pontevedra". Diario de Pontevedra. 10 September 2019.
  13. "Un Campus 'bellissimo', 'schone', 'nice' y 'bien padre'". Diario de Pontevedra. 27 January 2016.
  14. "Punto de encuentro para ´erasmus´". Faro. 22 September 2014.
  15. "O Concello de Pontevedra cede o uso da Casa das Campás á Universidade para fins académicos". DUVI. 16 April 2005.
  16. "La Universidad de Vigo logra el mayor índice de ocupación de Galicia". La Voz de Galicia. 27 January 2015.
  17. "A Universidade de Vigo estabiliza a súa matrícula en 21.831 estudantes no curso 2014–2015". DUVI. 27 January 2015.
  18. "De la universidad al mundo laboral, ¿qué les espera a los egresados del Campus?". Diario de Pontevedra (in Spanish). 19 September 2021.
  19. "Miles de jóvenes de toda Galicia participan en la fiesta Santa Kata 2017". Faro. 28 April 2017.

See also

Bibliography
  • Porto Ucha, Ángel Serafín (2002). Instituciones para la formación de la mujer. La Escuela Normal Superior de Maestras de Pontevedra (in Spanish). Santiago de Compostela: Innovación educativa. p. 17-46. ISSN 1130-8656.
  • Porto Ucha, Ángel Serafín (2009). La Educación Especial en la formación de los maestros y maestras en el primer tercio del siglo XX : algunos datos referidos a Galicia (in Spanish). Pamplona: Universidad Pública de Navarra. p. 335-344. ISBN 978-84-9769-244-1.
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