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## The Vives Network promotes Catalan language as a strategic asset in the training of qualified professionals The institution urges the EU to implement policies that ensure the protection and promotion of its linguistic heritage, in line with the founding principles of the Union

14/03/2025 |
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The General Council of the Vives Network of Universities, made up of the 22 member rectors, met today at the Abbey of Montserrat in an emblematic event that coincides with the commemoration of the millennium of the monastery. In this context, the institution has published the Montserrat Declaration, a document that reaffirms the institution's commitment to the values of quality, inclusion and sustainability as fundamental pillars of higher education. The declaration also calls for the adoption of policies that guarantee the protection and promotion of the Catalan language, ensuring and reinforcing its presence in the public and academic spheres. The text was read in three voices, with the interventions of the president of the Vives Network and rector of the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia, Josep-Eladi Baños Díez; the vice-president II and rector of the Universitat Jaume I, Eva Alcón Soler; and the rector of the University of the Balearic Islands, Jaume Carot Giner.

**A university open to the world and and deeply rooted in its local community**

After three decades of working together, the Vives Network has become a university benchmark, promoting academic collaboration. With this declaration, the institution reinforces its commitment to an innovative university, rooted in the territory and open to the world, aligning itself with the values of quality, sustainability and inclusion that define the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). The document emphasises the role of the university not only as a generator of knowledge, but also as an agent of social and cultural transformation.

“The objective is to contribute to the progress of the university system, educational quality, diversity and innovation as tools for building an inclusive, sustainable and knowledge-based future”, said the president of the Vives Network and rector of the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia, Josep-Eladi Baños Díez.

**Language, education and innovation for a sustainable future**  
In a context of growing linguistic diversity, the Vives Network is committed to a multilingual policy that trains competent professionals with an international vocation, while reaffirming its commitment to the promotion of Catalan in the university sphere. In this sense, the Declaration of Montserrat calls on EU institutions to guarantee the protection and promotion of Catalan language as a common heritage and a key element for the quality of education and the professionalisation of students, calling for it to be made an official language of the European Union.

Likewise, the text approved by the rectors is also committed to promoting strategic alliances with academic, cultural and economic institutions in order to broaden the impact of higher education in the region; and to consolidating the leadership of the universities in the Network with inter-university projects in research, teaching and knowledge transfer. The Montserrat Declaration marks a step forward in the construction of a more open and plural higher education, aligned with the global challenges of the 21st century.

The Vives University Network is a non-profit organisation that represents and coordinates the joint action of 22 universities in Catalonia, the Valencian Community, the Balearic Islands, Northern Catalonia, Andorra and Sardinia. With 30 years' experience in the development of university projects with visible and recognised results, it represents a university community of over 530,000 people including students, teaching and research staff and technical, administrative and service staff.

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