Julio C. Ruiz

The UNED is the biggest public university in Spain in terms of both number of students and academic offerings, as well as the largest campus in Europe and has been 50 years committed to universalize quality Higher Education through an online and blended learning model leader in its sector. The more than 200,000 students who trust in the UNED each year endorse an innovative learning system that combines online teaching and on-site support backed by a constantly evolving technological platform that offers a flexible model adapted to the individual needs of each of its students. An active system applied in all the studies of its wide academic offer, in which the student becomes the main character of his or her own learning, as established by the European Higher Education System. The UNED has more than one hundred active Research Groups, distributed among its 11 Faculties and Schools. The thematic diversity addressed is extremely extensive and offers new solutions and areas of study for a large number of areas of interest to the Society. But the research activity of the UNED is not only developed from the Faculties and Schools, but it is also structured in its three Research Institutes and its two Study Centers.