The University of Salamanca was founded in 1218. It is the oldest founded university in Spain and the fourth oldest European university, besides being considered the alma mater of Latin American universities, for their intense relationship at the beginning of higher education in Latin America. The University of Salamanca is of medium size made up of 9 teaching and administrative campuses offering 80 official degrees, and 27 double degrees in all branches of knowledge. It has around 22,000 registered undergraduate students. If we add to this figure the number of registered students in the 78 University Masters, 41 doctorate programmes and other studies, the figure is about 30,000 students. The University of Salamanca has always prided itself on its ability to attract students from outside of "its natural market". It is the second university in the country to attract a higher number of students from outside its region. This characteristic of the university has become more pronounced in recent years. Also worth noting is our capacity to attract foreign students from Europe and from the rest of the world. These figures are also rising steadily in our doctorate programmes where 15% of students are of European origin and 36% from the rest of the world, especially from Latin America. The University of Salamanca is the European university with the ninth largest number of incoming Erasmus students and ranks number five among Spanish Universities. However if we consider the importance of Erasmus students in relation to the size of our university, they represent 4.75% of the total number of students, this is in fact, the highest percentage among medium to large public universities. Each year, the University receives more than 10,000 foreign students, including those who come to learn Spanish, Erasmus students, and Graduate and Postgraduate students with a non-Spanish mother tongue, what makes the city internationally renowned for its university atmosphere. The academic institution main research fields of knowledge are Biosciences and Spanish courses for non-native speakers. There are also other significant fields such as Art and Humanities, ICT, Mathematics, Physics, Geology, Law, Economy, Education or Psychology. The University of Salamanca has institutes and research groups in the field of the Biosciences that are European and global references in their area: The Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology of Cancer – Centre for Cancer Research (IBMCC-CIC) (www.cicancer.org) is particularly important owing to the leading international role of some of its teams and the acknowledgement it has received from other professionals, with several prestigious national and international awards. The Institute of Functional and Genomic Biology (IBFG) CSIC-University of Salamanca (www.imb.usal.es) has gained international recognition in the field of mycology. The Institute of Neurosciences of Castile and Leon – INCYL (www.incyl.usal.es) carries out important activities in national and international projects in the field of basic and applied neurosciences. The DNA Bank participates in the Human Genome Project, and is a worldwide recognized technological platform created to support biomedical research. In the area of agro-biotechnology, the Spanish-Portuguese Centre for Agricultural Research – CIALE (www.ciale.es) is carrying out research in agro-biotechnology, biodiversity, genetic improvement, plant production, plant health, etc. The Centre for Ultra-fast Ultra-intense Pulsed Lasers – CLPU (www.clpu.es) is a singular scientific infrastructure created as a consortium between the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity, the Regional Government of Castile and Leon and the University. One of the main assets of the University is the pursuit of excellence in the field of Spanish Language. In order to achieve this goal, the University builds on the collaboration of the most prestigious national and international teams and productions. There are many data that attest to this: It has more than 600 researchers in Spanish Language. The teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language at the University of Salamanca began in 1929 and the Department of Spanish Language wrote the first communicative teaching manuals of the Spanish Language. Another force that drives the University is related to the assessment and certification of the Spanish Language. In this field, the University of Salamanca has researchers and teams of experts in the calibration and preparation of tests, the training of testers, and a team of more than 120 test markers, as well as technical staff and all the computer programmes and equipment required. In 1990, the University of Salamanca and the Spanish Ministry of Education signed a Cooperation Agreement that gave birth to the DELE certificates (Diploma of Spanish as a Foreign Language), official Spanish language exams. The “Instituto Cervantes” joined us in this task in 1992, after the establishment of agreements with the other two institutions. In 1990, the University of Salamanca and the University of Cambridge founded the Association of Language Testers in Europe (ALTE), a reference agency in Europe for the research, development and practice of examinations and tests in European languages. This association is currently made up of 31 members, representing 26 European languages. Since February 2008, the University of Salamanca has been part of the consortium controlling the project of indicators of Language Competences in the European Union (SURVEYLANG), together with the University of Cambridge, the Goethe-Institut, the Instituto Cervantes, CITO, the Alliance Française, the Università per Stranieri di Perugia and the Gallup Institute. The University of Salamanca is a member of the EPSO project (European Personnel Selection Office), which develops tests in 24 languages for the selection of translators for the European Union. The University of Salamanca together with the "Instituto Cervantes", the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and the University of Buenos Aires, has developed the first digital certificate of Spanish Language (SIELE) in the world. All these initiatives underscore the leading position of the University of Salamanca in the certification and assessment of the Spanish Language, together with its prospect of becoming a Campus of International Excellence. The University of Salamanca, together with the rest of the university community, celebrated its eighth centenary in 2018.

　　萨拉曼卡大学成立于 1218 年。它是西班牙历史最悠久的大学，也是欧洲第四古老的大学，除了被认为是拉丁美洲大学的母校外，还因其在拉丁美洲高等教育之初的密切关系而建立。萨拉曼卡大学规模中等，由 9 个教学和行政校区组成，提供 80 个官方学位和 27 个所有知识分支的双学位。它有大约 22,000 名注册本科生。如果我们把78个大学硕士课程、41个博士课程和其他研究的注册学生人数加在一起，这个数字大约是30 000名学生。萨拉曼卡大学一直以其吸引来自“自然市场”之外的学生的能力而自豪。它是该国第二所吸引更多来自该地区以外的学生的大学。近年来，大学的这一特点变得更加明显。同样值得注意的是，我们吸引来自欧洲和世界其他地区的外国学生的能力。这些数字在我们的博士课程中也在稳步上升，其中 15% 的学生来自欧洲，36% 来自世界其他地区，尤其是来自拉丁美洲。萨拉曼卡大学是伊拉斯谟入学学生人数第九多的欧洲大学，在西班牙大学中排名第五。然而，如果我们考虑到伊拉斯谟学生相对于我们大学规模的重要性，他们占学生总数的 4.75%，这实际上是大中型公立大学中比例最高的。 每年接待 10,000 多名外国学生，包括前来学习西班牙语的学生、伊拉斯谟学生以及母语非西班牙语的研究生和研究生，这使这座城市以其大学氛围而闻名于世。学术机构的主要知识研究领域是生物科学和针对非母语人士的西班牙语课程。还有其他重要领域，如艺术与人文、信息通信技术、数学、物理学、地质学、法律、经济、教育或心理学。萨拉曼卡大学在生物科学领域拥有欧洲和全球参考的研究所和研究小组：癌症细胞和分子生物学研究所 - 癌症研究中心 (IBMCC-CIC) (www.cicancer.org) 尤为重要，因为它的一些团队在国际上发挥了主导作用，并得到了其他专业人士的认可， 获得多项著名的国内和国际奖项。萨拉曼卡大学 (www.imb.usal.es) CSIC 功能与基因组生物学研究所 (IBFG) 在真菌学领域获得了国际认可。卡斯蒂利亚和莱昂神经科学研究所 – INCYL (www.incyl.usal.es) 在基础和应用神经科学领域的国家和国际项目中开展重要活动。DNA 库参与了人类基因组计划，是一个全球公认的技术平台，旨在支持生物医学研究。在农业生物技术领域，西班牙-葡萄牙农业研究中心 – CIALE (www.ciale.es)正在开展农业生物技术、生物多样性、遗传改良、植物生产、植物健康等方面的研究。超快超强脉冲激光中心 – CLPU (www.clpu.es) 是西班牙经济和竞争部、卡斯蒂利亚和莱昂州政府以及大学之间的联盟创建的独特科学基础设施。该大学的主要资产之一是在西班牙语领域追求卓越。为了实现这一目标，大学以最负盛名的国内和国际团队和制作的合作为基础。有许多数据证明了这一点：它有 600 多名西班牙语研究人员。萨拉曼卡大学的西班牙语作为外语教学始于 1929 年，西班牙语系编写了第一本西班牙语交际教学手册。推动大学发展的另一股力量与西班牙语的评估和认证有关。在这一领域，萨拉曼卡大学拥有测试校准和准备、测试人员培训的研究人员和专家团队，以及一支由 120 多个测试标记组成的团队，以及技术人员和所需的所有计算机程序和设备。1990 年，萨拉曼卡大学和西班牙教育部签署了合作协议，催生了 DELE 证书(西班牙语作为外语文凭)，官方西班牙语考试。1992 年，“塞万提斯学院”在与其他两个机构达成协议后加入了我们的行列，共同完成了这项任务。 1990 年，萨拉曼卡大学和剑桥大学成立了欧洲语言测试员协会 (ALTE)，这是欧洲研究、开发和实践欧洲语言考试和测试的参考机构。该协会目前由 31 名成员组成，代表 26 种欧洲语言。自 2008 年 2 月以来，萨拉曼卡大学与剑桥大学、歌德学院、塞万提斯学院、CITO、法语联盟、佩鲁贾斯特拉涅里大学和盖洛普研究所一起成为欧盟语言能力指标项目控制联盟 (SURVEYLANG) 的一部分。萨拉曼卡大学是 EPSO(欧洲人员选拔办公室)项目的成员，该项目开发了 24 种语言的测试，用于为欧盟选拔翻译人员。萨拉曼卡大学与“塞万提斯学院”、墨西哥国立自治大学和布宜诺斯艾利斯大学共同开发了世界上第一个西班牙语数字证书 (SIELE)。所有这些举措都凸显了萨拉曼卡大学在西班牙语认证和评估方面的领先地位，以及其成为国际卓越校园的前景。萨拉曼卡大学与大学社区的其他成员一起于 2018 年庆祝了成立八百周年。