The University of Cádiz (in

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: Universidad de Cádiz), commonly referred to as UCA, is a public university located in the

province of Cádiz Cádiz is a Provinces of Spain, province of southern Spain, in the southwestern part of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia. It is the southernmost part of mainland Spain, as well as the southernmost part of conti ...

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, noted for its

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and

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s curricula. It was founded in 1979, and has the

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motto ''Non Plus Ultra'' ("No Further Beyond"). Its headquarters are located in

Cádiz Cádiz (, , ) is a city and port in southwestern Spain. It is the capital of the Province of Cádiz, one of eight that make up the autonomous community of Andalusia. Cádiz, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Western Europe, ...

, where the Rectorate is. During the 2007/2008 academic year, there were 17,280 students,UCA, today
– 2008 statistics 1698 lecturers, and 680 administration and services workers associated with the university.

History

The University's origins lie in the 15th century with the "Colegio de Pilotos de los Mares de Levante y Poniente". Its Faculty of Medicine traces its founding to the Royal Naval College of Surgery in 1748, which was the first in Europe to combine medicine and

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in a single school. The modern University of Cádiz was founded on October 30, 1979, with an inaugural session "''Cajal, análisis literario de un carácter''" about

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and the first rector election was conducted in 1984. In March 1984, the Gold Medal was awarded to

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. In May 1985,

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and

Antonio Domínguez Ortiz Antonio Domínguez Ortiz (October 18, 1909 – January 21, 2003) was a Spanish historian, one of the leading specialists in the history of the Spanish Antiguo Régimen of the 16th through 18th centuries, in particular in social history. He was al ...

were invested Doctor Honoris Causa. In this year, the rectorate is relocated to the current building, ''Casa de los Cinco Gremios''. University bylaws and statutes were approved in February 1986. In 1992, ''Centro Andaluz Superior de Estudios Marinos'' was inaugurated in Campus of Puerto Real. Since 2003, UCA has promoted new technologies for learning-related purposes, first with

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and then

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(free software). In 2009, the recently created "General Inspection of Exceptional Services" begun to make decisions which were severely reprobed by some intellectual authors, for it allows authorities the use of official means in order to arbitrarily punish teaching staff.

Campuses

In addition to the principal campus in Cádiz, the university has three satellite campuses: *

Bahía de Algeciras Campus The Bahía de Algeciras Campus UCA is a branch of the University of Cádiz (UCA). Its facilities are located in Algeciras and La Linea de la Concepción, Spain. Structure The Bahia de Algeciras campus is operated by the Municipal University Fou ...

Jerez de la Frontera Jerez de la Frontera (), or simply Jerez (), is a Spanish city and municipality in the province of Cádiz in the autonomous community of Andalusia, in southwestern Spain, located midway between the Atlantic Ocean and the Cádiz Mountains. , the ...

Campus *Campus of

Puerto Real Puerto Real () is a seaport in Andalusia, in the province of Cádiz. , it had a population of 40,667. The town is located on the northern shore of the inner lobe of the Bay of Cádiz, on the site of the ancient Roman settlement of Portus Gadit ...

: near to

Bahía de Cádiz Natural Park Bahía de Cádiz Natural Park (Parque Natural de la Bahía de Cádiz) is a natural park (Spain), natural park located in the province of Cádiz (Andalusia, Spain). It was established in 1989. Nature Located at the mouth of the Guadalete river ...

. The main building is the

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; ''CASEM'' which offers studies in Marine Environment and Marine Resources, Seafaring, Marine Engineering, Naval Radioelectronics and Naval Engineering. File:CASEM Campus de Puerto Real 2.jpg, CASEM, Campus of Puerto Real File:ESI-3.jpg, School of Engenieering, Cádiz Campus File:Jerez Campus 01.jpg, Jerez Campus File:PolitecnicaAlgeciras.jpg, Algeciras Campus

Schools within the university

Some schools within the university are: *University School of Modern Languages

) *University School of Health ("Salus Infirmorum") at Cádiz *University School of Engineering at Puerto Real *University School of Labor Relations at Jerez de la Frontera *University School of Legal and Economic Studies ("Tomás y Valiente") at Algeciras *University Center for Advanced Studies at Algeciras *University School of Labor Relations at Algeciras *University School of Pedagogy ("Virgen de Europa") at La Línea de la Concepción

University rectors

University rectors in UCA history: * October, 1979 – February, 1984: Felipe Garrido * February, 1984 – June, 1986: Mariano Peñalver Simó * September, 1986 – January, 1995: José Luis Romero Palanco. Reelected in November, 1990. * January, 1995 – April, 2003: Guillermo Martínez Massanet. Reelected in February, 1999. * May, 2003 – July, 2011: Diego Sales Márquez. Reelected in May, 2007. * July, 2011 – 2019: Eduardo González Mazo. * July, 2019 – present : Francisco Piniella Corbachoю

Free software and supercomputing

One of the first free software offices in Spain was founded at this university, Libre Software and Open Knowledge Office (OSLUCA). This office has set up some free software conferences (2004
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UCA provides a

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for research purposes since 2007. It is a cluster of 80 computers, each with 4 processing cores (finally 320 cores) and 640 GB RAM, designed for a peak performance of 3.8

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. The supercomputer uses SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 as operating system.

Notable alumni

Some notable alumni from UCA: *

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: physician and lecturer * Pascual Hontañón Cabezas: physician * Federico Rubio y Gali: surgeon * Benito Alcina y Rancés: hygienist * Antonio Machado y Núñez: rector of

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and mayor of Sevilla * Cayetano del Toro y Quartiellers: politician * Gabriel Matute y Valls * Guillermina Rojas y Orgis

Honoris Causa

Honorary doctoral degrees from University of Cádiz: * William W.L. Glenn (1981) * Dietrich E. Wilhelm Trincker (1982) * Andrés Segovia Torres (1982) * Rafael Alberti Merello (1985) *

(1985) *

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(1987) * José Ignacio Barraquer Moner (1987) * Fernando Quiñones Chozas (1998) *

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(2000) * Andrés Fernández Díaz (2004) * José Manuel Caballero Bonald (2004) * Miguel Ángel Ladero Quesada (2004) * Margarita Salas Falgueras (2004) * Carlos Castilla del Pino (2004) * Salustiano del Campo (2006) *

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(2007) * Juan de Dios Ramírez Heredia (2008) * Takashi Asano (2008) * Marcelino Camacho Abad (2008) * Nicolás Redondo Urbieta (2008) *

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* Clara Eugenia Lida

Partnerships

The university participates in the ERASMUS programme, a partnership for student exchanges in Europe. It maintains relations with many universities on all continents.

Partnership Universities

Universities that have an exchange programme with the University of Cádiz include: *

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References

External links

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University home page in EnglishUCA image galleryLibre Software and Open Knowledge Office
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