EUNEIZ University has today started the 2024-25 academic year with almost 500 students and has added an extra floor to its facilities in the Biosfera building. Of the total student body, around 230 students have enrolled for the first time in one of the eight technological and health degrees that the University of Vitoria-Gasteiz will be offering as of Monday 16 September.
The Rector Eva Eguiguren, accompanied by the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Luis Llurda, and the Vice-Dean of the Music Department, Norberto Bayo, greeted the first-year students on a welcome day in which, in addition to getting to know the EUNEIZ facilities, they had their first contact with what will be a decisive academic stage for their professional future, “but also full of experiences for their personal baggage”.
“The university stage marks our lives in an undeniable way. Not only do we prepare ourselves to fulfil our professional dreams, but we also benefit from experiences that make us grow as people. At EUNEIZ we are aware of the double learning that students face, so in addition to offering knowledge, supporting innovation and encouraging creativity and talent, we accompany them through their personal development, encouraging their transformational and responsible role in society”, he emphasised.
The Rector highlighted the ‘consolidation’ of the EUNEIZ project, which is growing in terms of students and facilities”, quintupling the number of students in two years and increasing the space of its facilities in the Biosfera building by 50%, from 2,500 to approximately 3,750 m2. He also recalled that, together with the degrees in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences, Physiotherapy, Multimedia, Music and Sound Production for the Entertainment Industry, Art for Video Games, Video Game Design and Development and Cybersecurity, a new degree in Sports Management will be added this academic year 2024-25.
After expressing her satisfaction at welcoming the new students, the Rector highlighted the diversity of origin of the students, coming from different communities in Spain, and even from other countries such as France, Italy and Nigeria, “making the University a meeting place and a space for cultural exchange”.
As part of EUNEIZ’s commitment to contribute to the welfare and development of Alava and the Basque Country through the training of new professional profiles, the head of EUNEIZ’s academic department highlighted the role of the University of Vitoria-Gasteiz in the generation of knowledge through research, as well as in the consolidation of emerging sectors with significant professional prospects. “We want to train a new generation of professionals who can respond to the great transformational challenges of our society.”, she concluded.