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| Abbreviation | CG |
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Executive Board Chair | Ludovic Thilly University of Poitiers |
Office Director | Emmanuelle Gardan[1] |
| Website | www |
TheCoimbra Group (CG) is an international association of 42 universities in Europe.[2] It was established in 1985.[3] It works for the benefit of its members by promoting "internationalization, academic collaboration, excellence in learning and research, and service to society" through "creating special academic and cultural ties", by lobbying at the European level, and by developing best-practice.[4]
The Coimbra Group was founded in 1985 and formally constituted in 1987 by a charter signed between its members, then numbering 19.[5] In 1994 it publishedCharters of Foundation and Early Documents of the Universities of the Coimbra Group.[6] A second edition was published in 2005, by which time Caen had left the group while Bergen, Geneva, Graz, Lyon, Padua, Tartu and Turku had joined.[7]
In 2013 the group consisted of 40 universities,[8][9] but by the following year this had fallen to 37 with the departures of theAristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece), theUniversity of Cambridge (UK) and theUniversity of Oxford (UK).[10] Since then, the Group has addedVilnius University (Lithuania) in June 2015[11] andDurham University (UK) in June 2016.[12] This brought the membership of the group to 39,[13] but it subsequently fell to 38 in October 2016, when theUniversity of Lyon (France) decided to leave the Group.[14] At the General Assembly in June 2017, theUniversity of Cologne was invited to join as the 39th member, whileUtrecht University joined the group in December 2020.[15]TheUniversity of Göttingen withdrew from the group in December 2024.[16] In June 2025, theUniversity of Leeds,Newcastle University and theUniversity of Wrocław joined, bringing the current number of members to 42.[17]
As of June 2025,[update] the Coimbra Group includes 42 universities in 22 countries:[18]
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