Highlights Archive

GCU will participate as a speaker in the 5th Cultural Routes Managers’ Meeting in Huelva, reinforcing its academic role in European cultural initiatives.

GCU is preparing a volunteer program in León, inspired by Jaca’s experience, reinforcing academic and cultural cooperation along the Camino de Santiago.

The GCU president attended a preparatory meeting in Paris on European cultural routes, strengthening the academic dimension of these initiatives.

The GCU took part in the 14th Annual Advisory Forum on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe, held in Cappadocia (Türkiye), where it was specially invited to coordinate the meeting of universities belonging to the network of the European Institute of Cultural Routes. During the event, it was announced that the Institute had been granted the 2025 Grupo Compostela–Xunta de Galicia Prize.

Representatives of the partner organisations of the CGU Volunteering with Heritage in Forests GAL programme held their first official meeting to coordinate efforts and jointly plan activities.

As part of his pilgrimage along the Camino Portugués, Professor David Green, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Worcester (United Kingdom), held a series of institutional meetings between 23 and 29 May 2025 with representatives of the Compostela Group of Universities (CGU) and its member institutions. These activities were part of the Meetings on the Way initiative, promoted by the CGU to reinforce academic ties along the Camino de Santiago.