 The UdG has joined forces with the University of the Balearic Islands, the Catalan Institute for Water Research and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas to create the Campus d'Excel.lència Pirineus-Mediterrània (CEI-PM).It is a member of the Florence Network for Nursing and Midwifery and the Vives Network.The first modern reference of "Universitat de Girona" references to the "Escola Normal de Mestres" and, specially, the initiative during the 1960s decade to recover university level studies in Girona.