The Network of Universities of Northwest Africa and Macaronesia (UNWAM) was created at the initiative of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria with the objective of intensifying the teaching and research cooperation in this geographical area.

Universities from Northwest Africa and Macaronesia join to form a global network of scientific and academic cooperation to promote the consolidation of this geographical area as an active and truly internationalized academic environment.

The UNWAM Network is advancing in the consolidation of an instrument that promotes the internationalization of universities located in a privileged geostrategic area and that reclaims their prominence in history, evolution as well as academic and economic development in the present and future of two continents: Africa and Europe.