The University of Santiago de Compostela is a public institution for higher education and research endowed with autonomy, full legal personality and its own heritage, which is made up by the campuses of Santiago de Compostela and Lugo and which assumes and carries out its functions as an essential public service to the community through study, teaching, research and the transfer of knowledge. Mission The USC is a public university dedicated to the preservation, generation, transmission and dissemination of knowledge in a socially responsible manner and in connection with the demands and challenges of Galician society. The University of Santiago de Compostela has a wide academic offer and a powerful research capacity, and has been valued for its excellence as one of the best universities in Spain and in the European Higher Education Area. The USC is a pioneering institution in the development of entrepreneurship policies, the promotion of R&D&I and the transfer and valorisation of the results of its research Vision The University of Santiago de Compostela wants to be recognised as a prestigious university, academically solvent and with research excellence, at the service of the economic, social and cultural development of Galician society, exemplary in the management of its resources and participated democratically by the members of its community around a shared university project: A university that continues to stand out for its academic solvency with an attractive offer, capable of attracting the best students, and sustaining an innovative research activity, of excellence and connected with the demands of our environment in order to project itself as a university of international reference. A university firmly committed to society, in which it acts as an engine of economic development and social welfare, being a reference point for social cooperation, sustainable development, respect for the environment and the creation and dissemination of culture. An exem