The University of Greenwich has been established for over 125 years and is situated on three campuses with 38,000 students from 140 countries.
The University was awarded Silver in the UK’s 2017 Teaching Excellence Framework assessment, which is testament to its growing reputation for teaching and learning, specialising in high quality, professional degrees at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
The University’s research is regularly acknowledged as among the best in the world, with particular strengths in natural resources, pharmaceutical science and computational modelling, with a particular focus on applied research and enterprise.
Greenwich Campus
The Greenwich Campus is one of the grandest university settings in the world and the university’s largest campus. It is located in a World Heritage Site on the grounds of the Old Royal Naval College (ORNC) by the River Thames in London. The campus is centred on three baroque buildings designed by Sir Christopher Wren at the end of the 17th century – the same architect who designed St Paul’s Cathedral in London. The Independent newspaper described this setting as “more breathtaking than the Versailles of Louis XIV”.
Greenwich is a bustling town with a great atmosphere fostered by markets, pubs, clubs and restaurants. The area is steeped in history. 
East meets west on the Greenwich Meridian line, which divides the hemispheres and marks longitude zero. The line runs through the courtyard of the 17th-century Royal Observatory and indicates the spot from which Greenwich Mean Time is calculated. Greenwich is also home to the Cutty Sark, a 19th-century clipper ship, and the National Maritime Museum, as well as one of London's finest Royal Parks.
The Tourism Research Centre
The Tourism Research Centre (TRC), launched in October 2016 and based at the university’s Faculty of Business, is an inter-disciplinary network of academics, researchers and research students who have a particular interest in any aspects of tourism studies. More recently, in March 2018, the Tourism Research Centre launched the London Office of the International Tourism Studies Association (ITSA). The University of Greenwich has been consistently ranked 1st in London for Tourism and Hospitality (Source: Times Higher). 
Dr. Andres Coca-Stefaniak is a key member of TRC and the Principal Investigator for the University of Greenwich on the SHARE project (budget €1.4) and joint Principal Investigator on the GO TRADE project (budget €5.2), both co-funded by the Interreg programme. He has over 16 years’ experience with EU-funded projects across a wide range of funding programmes. To date he has secured €2.4 million of EU funding with cumulative project budgets exceeding €15 million. His projects have covered a range of disciplines including entrepreneurship and enterprise management, small business retail, tourism destination management and marketing, place branding, smart tourism destinations, culture-based and heritage tourism, markets, sustainable tourism and sustainable events, among others. Dr. Coca-Stefaniak is co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Tourism Cities, Regional Vice-President of the International Tourism Studies Association, and has advised UK Government departments on town centre and high street competitiveness.
Earlier EU-funded projects Dr. Coca-Stefaniak worked on and which influenced the thinking behind the current SHARE project include the following:
- ZEN project (co-funded by the Interreg 4C programme - budget €1.5)
- SolidarCity project (co-funded by the Interreg 4C programme - budget €1.3)
- Small Capital of Culture (SCOUT) project (funded by the European Commission’s Life Long Learning programme)
- Culture-Led Urban Regeneration (CUR) project (funded by the European Culture Programme (2007-2013))
For more information, contact: Dr. Andres Coca-Stefaniak, [email protected]
