Strategic aggregation of universities in Spain: The Spanish program international campus of excellence and the experience of the technical university of Madrid

Abstract

In 2008 the Spanish government launched a new strategy to foster the modernization and internationalization of the Spanish university system, the Strategy University 2015 (SU 2015) (Strategy University 2015. Modernizing the University. June 2010. Ministry of Education. Spain). The main goal of this initiative was to allow Spanish universities to fulfil and exploit their potential to contribute to the development of a knowledge-based economy and society.