
SDG 1 – No poverty
End poverty in all its forms everywhere
- The UdA Solidarity committee works to promote the University’s social, solidarity and cooperation functions through awareness-raising and volunteering.
- The University of Andorra promotes cooperation and volunteering through training courses aimed at the UdA community. These include courses in International Cooperation and Volunteering and Management of NGOs and Other Non-profit Organisations. Two grants are also provided to enable UdA students to work as volunteers in the field of international cooperation.
- With the aim of reducing social inequalities, university students have access to the Government of Andorra’s study grants as well as the mobility and research grants offered by the UdA, which are also opened to staff. Similarly, the university provides special payment conditions for students with financial difficulties and reductions on tuition fees for large families or single parent families.
- The University of Andorra has agreements with different universities to promote the virtual mobility and have the willingness to reduce its cost and making mobility more universal. Internationalisation at home actions are also promoted, such as semesters taught in English or the Buddy Programme, to ensure that internationalisation reaches all the students.
- The UdA offers open access content and publications (Open Science), to make them accessible to everyone. It also uses free institutional software (Open Source) and of many applications for teaching and research to promote an accessible software to everyone.