The UB to coordinate a consortium of ten European universities and eight Russian universities as part of the Erasmus-Mundus programme

The European partners in the ERANET-MUNDUS consortium (which falls under the framework of Barcelona Knowledge Campus activities), in addition to the UB, are the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Radboud University Nijmegen, the University of Poitiers, the University of Duisburg-Essen, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, the University of Glasgow, the University of Siena, the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra and the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Most of these institutions, including the UB, are members of the International Research Universities Network (IRUN), giving them experience of collaborative work in research programmes, joint degrees, conferences and symposia, summer courses and other activities. The Russian partner universities are the Russian State Hydrometeorological University, the Siberian Federal University, Pskov State Pedagogical University, the South Ural State University, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Demidov Yaroslavl State University, Saint Petersburg University and the Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod. The network also includes the following associates: the Spanish Higher Institute of the Environment, the Friends of the Baltic, the Committee for Nature Preservation of the Russian Geographical Society, the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency and the Russian National Accreditation Agency. At the UB, ERANET-MUNDUS activities are overseen by the International Mobility and Programs Office and the academic coordinator Marc Ruiz-Zorilla.