University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

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University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Type	Public
Established	1989
Rector	Lluís Serra Majem
Academic staff	811
Administrative staff	837
Students	22,707
Address	Juan de Quesada, nº 30, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Province of Las Palmas, Canary Islands, 35001, Spain
Nickname	ULPGC
Website	www.ulpgc.es

The University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, also known as the ULPGC (Spanish Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) is a Spanish public university located in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the capital city of Gran Canaria island. It is the university with the most students in the Canary Islands. It consists of five campuses: four in Gran Canaria (Tafira, Obelisco, San Cristóbal and Montaña Cardones) and one in the island of Lanzarote, with Tafira being the largest. The University was created in 1989 after many years of petitions from the people of Gran Canaria. The university was incorporated through the University Reorganization Act of 1989. ULPGC was created as the aggregation of the teaching centres of former "Universidad Politécnica de Canarias", focused on engineering (industrial, civil, electronics and computer), and the centres from neighbouring Universidad de La Laguna that were located in Las Palmas province.

This University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has an important university community of foreign students, being the first university in the Canary Islands and among the first in Spain to receive Erasmus students.

The University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in the academic year 2019/2020, has 1,648 teachers and researchers, 143 research staff in projects, 109 research staff in training, 40 honorary doctors and 837 members and a total of 20,356 students.

Academic programs

The university offers 41 bachelor's degrees, 25 Master's degrees, and 13 PhD programs to over 22,006 students.

The fields offered to cover all the five areas of knowledge, Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Health Sciences, Social and Law Sciences, and Architecture and Engineering.

The university has a Moodle-based virtual campus giving service to all traditional classroom-based teaching and specially to 5 fully on-line grade titles and 4 post-graduate programs. According to a popular Spanish newspaper (El País), the ULPGC uses their online platform in an outstanding way.

According to a popular newspaper ranking, the ULPGC placed 34th out of the 48 public universities in Spain (El Mundo newspaper study). In Spain, public universities overtake private ones. Also, the ULPG is in the position 804th of the world ranking.

Teaching and research staff

The university conducts research in several fields, especially in biomedicine, electronics and computer sciences, and marine sciences. Since 1989, research groups at ULPGC have been awarded approximately 2000 research grants (competitive funding from the Spanish government and from international sources, mainly EU Science programs, a living testament to its academic achievement). As a result, the university has produced more than 3000 articles in peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed journals, as well as a number of books and magazine articles.

University Institutes and Excellence in research

ULPGC Research Institutes

The university institutes are the highest body of research management at the university. ULPGC highlights international research in various fields such as marine science, health, energy, economy and tourism, water and ICT around the sea, as evidenced by the granting of the mention of Campus of Excellence “Tricontinental Atlantic Campus” by the Government of Spain.

The Institute of Tourism and Sustainable Economic Development -Tides-http://tides.es leading the tourism research at the ULPGC has contributed to rank the ULPGC as the top 1 university in the European Union in tourism research scientific productivity. shanghairanking. Tourism and Hospitality ULPGC is the 1st in Iberoamerica in Hospitality research scientific productivity. In tourism research, ULPGC highlights in this ranking in some specific research topics: "Destination Marketing and Management", 2nd in the World (sharing the position with 4 more universities); and "Image and Branding", 4th in the World. The neurotourism lab “Emoturlab”Emoturlab has been certified by the European Union as an Advanced Technology Center in Tourism, leading different European projects such as EuroemoturEuroemotur.

Conferences

ULPGC is the main host and co-host of several international conferences. Mainly:

In 2005, this university hosted the MoodleMoot Spain conferences. Many universities have followed the example of the ULPGC in online education.

In 2009, the ULPGC has been the co-host for the GUADEC and Akademy 2009 conferences, joining these two leading software conferences in the same place for the first time.

ULPGC store

A store was opened at the university on November 25, 2014. It is located between the "Las Casitas" cafeteria and the Student Information Service (SIE). The building has two floors and the different items that can be purchased with its own and commercially registered brand are displayed: ULPGC (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria).

References

"Rectorado". 15 September 2021.
General ULPGC statistics(spanish)
It is the university with the most students in the Canary Islands
"La ULPGC, segunda universidad española que recibe más fondos europeos para movilidad". 26 June 2019.
"Datos globales de la ULPGC". ULPGC - Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (in Spanish). 2018-03-06. Retrieved 2020-05-12.
ULPGC – Datos globales
"ULPGC - Campus Virtual".
"Institutos y universidades apuestan por la plataforma libre de 'e-learning' Moodle". El País. 13 April 2006 – via elpais.com.
50 carreras | elmundo.es Archived 2007-10-23 at the Wayback Machine
"ULPGC - Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación - Investigación".
"Results" (PDF). www.ulpgc.es.
^ Park, K. et al. (2011) “Hospitality and tourism research rankings by author, university, and country using six major journals: the first decade of the new millennium. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, 35, 3, 381-416
"MoodleMoot05:Presentación". www.campusvirtual.ulpgc.es. Archived from the original on 4 December 2005. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
"Moodle. Institutos y universidades apuestan por esta plataforma libre de 'e-learning' - Aula Intercultural". 3 December 2006.
"Free Desktop Communities come together at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit". 6 August 2009.
"Free Desktop Communities come together at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit". 6 August 2009.
"Tienda ULPGC". tienda.ulpgc.es. Retrieved 2020-05-12.

External links

Scholia has a profile for University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Q940302).

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Gran Canaria

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Municipalities

History

Nature

Landmarks and attractions

Ancient sites	El Maipés Necropolis Four Doors cave site, Telde Painted Cave, Galdar Caves of Valeron
Natural sites	Bandama Caldera Fuente de los Azulejos Guayadeque ravine Pico de las Nieves Pilancones Roque Nublo
General	Jardín Botánico Canario Viera y Clavijo Palmitos Park Church of San Juan Bautista (Arucas) Las Palmas Cathedral Maspalomas Dunes Atlantic Center of Modern Art Museo Canario Elder Museum of Science and Technology Temisas Astronomical Observatory Yumbo Centrum

Transport

Air	Gran Canaria Airport
Public transport	Autoridad Única del Transporte de Gran Canaria Global Guaguas Municipales Tren de Gran Canaria (planned)
Roads	GC1 GC2 GC31 GC4 GC5
Sea	Puerto de la Luz Port of Las Nieves Trasmediterránea Fred Olsen Express

Sport

General	Sportspeople CB Gran Canaria Gran Canaria FS Maspalomas FS Rally Islas Canarias BM Remudas Real Club Náutico de Gran Canaria Gran Canaria Maratón
Football	CD Arguineguín Castillo CF UD Gáldar AD Huracán UD Las Palmas UD Las Palmas Atlético UD Las Palmas C CD Maspalomas CF Panadería Pulido Real Sporting San José UD San Fernando UD Tamaraceite UD Telde UD Vecindario UD Villa de Santa Brígida UD Villa de Santa Brígida B CF Unión Viera Universidad de Las Palmas CF
Venues	Centro Insular de Deportes Estadio Insular Estadio Gran Canaria Estadio Municipal de Vecindario Gran Canaria Arena

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