Third Mission refers to the set of activities with which the University enters into direct interaction with society, promotes its economic, cultural and social development, through the transformation, provision and circulation of knowledge produced mainly through research activity. It is an institutional responsibility to which the University must respond according to its specificities.
The Third Mission is periodically evaluated by the Independent Evaluation Body and the University Quality Assurance Committee and finally submitted to the Academic Senate for approval.
The fields of action of the Third Mission are expressed in the following declinations:
- Permanent training and open teaching
- Production and management of artistic and cultural goods
- Public Engagement activities
- Clinical trials and health protection initiatives
- Production of public goods of a social, educational nature and policies for inclusion
- Innovative Tools to Support Open Science
- Valorisation of intellectual or industrial property
- Academic Entrepreneurship
- Intermediation and technology transfer structures