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Research group on Industry and Territory (GRIT)

The Rovira i Virgili University’s research group on Industry and Territory (GRIT) carries out research into applied economics. It was founded in 1999 and is part of the map of research groups of the URV and the Catalan Government. Its members are lecturers of the URV affiliated to the Department of Economics.

GRIT mainly studies three areas: industrial dynamics, the economics of innovation and efficiency, and the economics of tourism. Using scientific and independent criteria, the group studies applied economics aith the aid of the most rigorous techniques provided by theoretical and applied economics. Its main aim is to establish work dynamics that make it easier for both individuals and groups to access the competitive calls for research and to publish research results in prestigious scientific journals.

Economics Department

The Department of Economics of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili was created in 2000 from the Department of Economics and Management Sciences that had agglutinated, up to that moment, all professors of subjects related to Economics and Business of the University.

Nowadays, the Department of Economics integrates the areas of Economic Analysis, Applied Economics and History and Economic Institutions. Inside these areas, approximately seventy professors develop their work, sixty per cent of which are full-time.
 

The principal aim of the Department of Economics is to offer to the society a high-level of university education, based on both educational and research quality of its faculty members.

On the other hand, the Department of Economics has a vocation to provide services to its more direct environment. An evidence of this is the importance of some of the projects of knowledge transfer that the department has led or in which it has collaborated: the Strategic Plans of the cities of the Tarragona Region; the connection of the Port of Tarragona to the new railway system; the first studies on the impact of the sanitary institutions in Catalonia, or on the impact of the dismantlement of a nuclear power station in Spain, are some examples.

From its creation, directors of the Department of Economics have been Martí Oliva (2000-2006), Ferran Mañé (2006-2009) and Bernd Theilen (2009-).


Universitat Rovira i Virgili

The Universitat Rovira I Virgili was created in 1991 by the Parliament of Catalonia from the already existing university faculties and schools. In this way the Tarragona University of the 16th century was restored. From the very first day its aim has been very clear: to place knowledge at the service of society so as to contribute to the social and economic development of its environment, which has gradually transformed over time.

Social and cultural changes have opened the doors to a new framework in which our students and future workers are obliged to interact in Europe. At the URV we train professionals under the precepts of European harmonization, a key factor for opening the doors to a world of work without frontiers. And we do so by providing 52 programmes of study in a wide variety of knowledge areas for over 12,000 students.

The data show that the URV is not only one of the leading universities in Catalonia but also one of the leading universities in the European area for the quality of its teaching, its commitment to continuous training and the excellence of its research, development and innovation.