UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS

The University of Balearic Islands is the only public university of the entire Balearic Islands region and is devoted to further education, transfer of knowledge, research and innovation. The University was created in 1978 and its headquarters are located in Palma but it also has two branches in the islands of Minorca and Ibiza. The Development Cooperation and Solidarity Office (OCDS) is the University body in charge of managing development cooperation and volunteering programmes. The Office was created in May 2005 and has a stable team and a wide group of collaborators who belong to different university community areas such as research and teaching staff, administration and services staff and students. Our Office carries out a considerable number of actions addressed to the university community, among which it should be highlighted mobility calls in the field of development cooperation and volunteering: grants for students in the field of development cooperation, for both undergraduate and master’s degree students, and the programme of international volunteering in development called “Solidarity Stays”, respectively; the call for grants for university cooperation in development projects; the call for grants for actions on education for sustainable development; a high number of training actions in the fields of development cooperation and volunteering; as well as the promotion of local and international volunteering action.