Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)

Created by the Catalan government, the UOC is a university run privately to provide a public service and facilitates equitable and inclusive access to higher education.

• The UOC’s portfolio is wide and deep, ranging from short courses to doctoral degrees, with the main part of students in the undergraduate or graduate path.
• The languages used for the vast majority of programmes are Catalan and Spanish.
• But there are some programmes taught in English. They are the focus of this briefing, and the segment of portfolio that must be covered in this service.

The Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) is a research centre of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) specializing in the study of the Internet and the effects of the interaction between digital technologies and human activity.

The IN3 hosts 11 renowned research groups that carry out a wide range of research of an interdisciplinary nature. Every year the centre hosts visiting professors and researchers; its researchers participate in the UOC's doctoral programmes.

Research fields

• Care and preparedness in the network society

• Information and network security and privacy
• Internet computing and systems optimisation

• Gender and ICT
• Complex systems

• Software engineering

• Urban transformations
• The internet of things