The Universidad de Antioquia is an official institution at the regional level which serves public Higher Education in Colombia and was founded in 1803. Because of its transformative nature, the Universidad de Antioquia affects all social sectors through research, teaching and outreach. Research and teaching constitute the pivotal points of the academic life of the University, and both are joined by outreach in order to achieve institutional goals of an academic or social kind. The University assimilates the different cultural productions, turning society needs into a teaching and research topic; society, in turn, takes part in the university production and benefits from it.