The University of Cadiz is organising and coordinating during the week of 3rd to 7th o July 2024 the first BIP (Blended Intensive Programme) focused specifically on Erasmus projects. 27 participants will actively take part in this BIP: both technical and manager staff as well as teaching and research staff from 17 international universities. The Vice-Rector for Internationalisation, Marcela Iglesias, welcomed them together with the Director for International Cooperation Projects, Fernando Pérez, and the staff of the international projects office at the Constitution 1812 building on the Cadiz Campus.

The Erasmus+ projects office of the Vice-Rectorate for Internationalisation of the UCA promotes this initiative, in which knowledge and experiences will be shared aiming at establishing and strengthening links with European (KA131) and (KA-171) partners in Erasmus+ Capacity Building projects. The European University of the Seas, the SEA-EU alliance will be presented in the programme as well as KA220 (Cooperation Association) projects.

The registered participants are from the following universities: Nacional Autónoma de México, Joseph Ki-Zerbo (Burkina Faso); Simón Bolívar (Colombia), Chouaib Doukkali (Morocco), De Lomé (Togo), Sfax (Tunisia), Alassane Outtara (Ivory Coast), Malta, Ljubljana (Slovenia), Gdansk (Poland); Split (Croatia), Kiel and RheinMain Wiesbaden (Germany), Algarve (Portugal), Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (Slovakia), Lasi Technical (Romania); Haute Ecole en Hainaut (Belgium); Konstantin Preslavsky (Bulgaria) and University of Cadiz  (Cadiz).

BIP programmes involve challenge-based learning, where transnational teams of students, faculty and staff from universities work together to tackle challenges or projects. They often combine participants from different fields of study/services to approach the project from different perspectives and who will have to learn to collaborate and complement each other.