Coimbra Group

The Coimbra Group (CG) is an international association of 40 universities in Europe.

[2] It works for the benefit of its members by promoting "internationalization, academic collaboration, excellence in learning and research, and service to society" through "creating special academic and cultural ties", by lobbying at the European level, and by developing best-practice.

[3] The Coimbra Group was founded in 1985 and formally constituted in 1987 by a charter signed between its members, then numbering 19.

[4] In 1994 it published Charters of Foundation and Early Documents of the Universities of the Coimbra Group.

[5] A second edition was published in 2005, by which time Caen had left the group while Bergen, Geneva, Graz, Lyon, Padua, Tartu and Turku had joined.