Pontifica Universidad Javeriana

Pontifica Universidad Javeriana
HE Institution
Year of foundation: 
1621
Member since: 
28/04/2008
Pontifical Javeriana University
Parent Institution's name (english translation): 
Society of Jesus
Parent Institution's name (original language): 
Compañía de Jesus

Contact

Institutional postal address: 
Carrera 7 No. 40 Seccional Cali, Bogotá.
Region: 
Latin America and Caribbean
Country: 
Colombia
City: 
Bogotá
Institutional e-mail: 
Institutional phone: 
00571 320 8320
Institutional fax: 
00571 285 3348

Mission / Vision

The Javeriana university in the near future will mainly promote research and curricula-centered integral education; it will strengthen its interdisciplinary university nature, and it will reinforce its presence in the country contributing to the solution of its major problems.

Goals

The Javeriana university has as its main goals the integral education of the human being, the conservation, transmission and development of science and culture, transcending the merely informative and technical dimensions.

Main activities

Teaching, research and service are the kye functions of the university and they converge in the general work of the institution and generate interpersonal and organizational relations that involve all the university groups and even persons or entities outside it.

Partners

  • UNESCO. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
  • The Catalan Association of Public Universities (ACUP)

Sponsored by

  • Generalitat de Catalunya. Ministry of Business and Employment. Department of Research and Universities
  • Generalitat de Catalunya. Ministry for Foreign Action and Open Government