Mission and Values

Instil integrity in all our academic and professional activities. This means behaving with a commitment to fundamental values such as rigour and hard work, honesty, a critical spirit, equity and a sense of responsibility, even in difficult circumstances.

Respect colleagues and people, including ourselves, and being sensitive to others’ concrete circumstances. This implies respecting everyone’s dignity and being able to support and help others when they need it and working together to build a fairer and more humane world.

Positively value diversity and learn from differences between people, ideas and situations. This means understanding that     differences based on gender, ethnicity, language, culture, sexual orientation, religion, physical traits or any other differences are opportunities to learn and enrich ourselves with different visions about people, the world and ourselves.

Seek, share and contribute to the common good. This means being aware that we cannot obtain our own good separately from that of the entire community and that, consequently, this has to be reflected in attitudes based on respect and responsibility towards the community.

Assume responsibilities and commitments to achieve a fairer and more sustainable society. This implies seeing reality not just “how it is” in fact but, also, “how it should be”, in keeping with the fundamental values of justice and environmental sustainability.