Newsflash Compostela Group of Universities

25. 1. 2021

The CGU mourns the passing of its former President Marc Richelle

The Compostela Group of Universities is deeply saddened by the death of its first President, Marc Richelle, Belgian academic with an outstanding career in the field of psychology.

The Executive Committee of the Compostela Group of Universities (CGU) learned last week about the decease of the first President of its international network, Marc Richelle, who as an academic gained international recognition for his advances in the field of psychology.

He was one of the co-founders of the CGU and participated in the meetings before its creation in September 1993, where the association’s project and objectives were defined. A year later, the constituent assembly of the CGU took place at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) and after the event, he was elected President of the network. A position he held between 1995 and 1999.

In his speech on the occasion of the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the CGU, Richelle recalled this stage of genesis, in which the founders made “viable what could have been seen as a utopia”, giving birth to “a network of universities located on any of the many pilgrimage routes to Compostela throughout Europe”.

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The CGU introduces virtual mobility into the Stella Junior programme

The Compostela Group of Universities (CGU) launched a new call for its Stella Junior student mobility programme, in which the main novelties are the incorporation of the virtual modality and the change in the issuing of the Stella Junior certificate.

The network’s member universities will determine whether to offer face-to-face or virtual mobility, at the time they submit their internship offers and based on the recommendations of the health authorities. These offers must be submitted using the form available on the Stella Junior programme page and they have until 5 March 2021 (12:00 PM GMT – noon) to do so.

The budget allocated to grants in the 2021 call is 3,900 euros, which will be distributed through the individual grants until it is exhausted. The grants for in-person mobility will have a budget of 600 euros each, while for the virtual modality it will be 200 euros per grant.

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