UNED is a Spanish public university that provides distance education at national and international levels. It was founded in 1972 to enable priority access to university and further education for all those who were unable to attend campus courses for any reasons. At present, it has a network of more that 60 Centres throughout the country where students have access to all kinds of academic services, including libraries, audiovisual material, face-to-face tutorials, videoconferencing an virtual campus (telematic tutoring). UNED is the largest university in Spain with more than 140000 students enrolled in its different modalities of education and training. The degrees include Sciences (Mathematics, Physics, Environment, and Chemistry), Computer Science, Humanities, Social Sciences, as well as more than 100 doctoral programmes, master degrees and Professional Development Programmes. The UNED has an international dimension with 16 Study Centres abroad and use extensively distance methodology and complementary pedagogical tools (television, radio, video and virtual university campus). The staff includes 1200 teachers, 4000 tutors and 1200 administrative and technical staff. UNED is now providing technical assistance and consultancy services to many institutions in Latin America and in Europe in matters such as networking as production of distance education courses. UNED provides strong institutional capacity in the use of ICT for higher education. UNED has the largest existing educative videoconference network in Europe, set up in 61 centres in Spain and the centres in Miami and Paris.