University of the Balearic Islands

The University was created in 1978 and its headquarters are located in Palma but it also has two branches in the islands of Minorca and Ibiza. The Development Cooperation and Solidarity Office (OCDS) is the University body in charge of managing development cooperation and volunteering programmes. The Office was created in May 2005 and has a stable team and a wide group of collaborators who belong to different university community areas such as research and teaching staff, administration and services staff and students.

Our Office carries out a considerable number of actions addressed to the university community, among which it should be highlighted mobility calls in the field of development cooperation and volunteering: grants for students in the field of development cooperation, for both undergraduate and master’s degree students, and the programme of international volunteering in development called “Solidarity Stays”, respectively; the call for grants for university cooperation in development projects; the call for grants for actions on education for sustainable development; a high number of training actions in the fields of development cooperation and volunteering; as well as the promotion of local and international volunteering action.

The UIB has a population of nearly 18,200 students, 1000 professors and researchers and 500 administrative and services professionals. If the UIB were a municipality, it would be the 16th largest town in the Balearic Islands, out of a total of 67. Students from partner universities in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Morocco, Russian Federation, Serbia or Tunisia may undertake part of their university studies at the Universitat de les Illes Balears through ERASMUS+ Partner Countries KA107.

Since 2014, the UIB has been partner of several ERASMUS+ projects, in the same area that this one proposed, such as the PSYTOOL (Code: 567199-EPP-1-2015-2-ES-SPO-SCP) which have the aim to train “Agents of Change” addressed to promote fair play and safe sport practice in several sports and places; the current EYVOL (Code: 603159-EPP-1-2018-1-EL-SPO-SCP) addressed to the training of young volunteers from several Mediterranean countries in order to become proactive agents in sports events, and ELIT-in (code: 590520-EPP-1-2017-1- ES-SPO-SCP) addressed to the promotion of elite athletes soft-skills –learned through their sport practice- transferable to the labour market.