UOC, in English, Open University of Catalonia, is a completely virtual university founded in 1995. It currently has more than 40,000 students and offers several official undergraduate degrees as well as several graduate programs, including the PhD program on Information and Knowledge Society. UOC's virtual campus is an integrated e-learning environment that allows students to pursue their studies completely online except for final exams, when appropriate.

UOC offers intensive use of information and communications technologies (ICT), thereby enabling users to overcome the barriers imposed by time and space and to offer an educational model based on personalized attention for each individual student. UOC

For more information please contact Francesc Noguera, fnoguera@uoc.edu or visit http://www.uoc.edu/portal/english/