The University of Valladolid has always been at the forefront of development in Information Technologies and, as a result, ranks highly among European universities in computer and network services, maintained by the Computer and Telecommunications Service. In 1987, the laying of fibre-optic cables in the city of Valladolid began to connect all the university centres and, one year later, the university had e-mail and services for connection to external equipment at a world level (telnet), becoming part of the RedIRIS and the NIC (Network Information Center) institute, which controls the Internet at a world level, in 1988. Said institute awarded us a B class network, the 157.88.x.x, which allows a maximum of 256 of the University of Valladolid’s own subnetworks and a maximum of 256 machines on each sub-network. In April 1992, all the Internet services were available (gopher, wais, news, e-mail, telnet, ftp, etc.), and in June 1993, it opened its own website: www.uva.es

At present, the University of Valladolid, the first public or private body to have the Internet and leading edge technologies, has over 4 000 computers of all kinds, connected to a high-speed network. All its centres, departments, seminaries, research centres and institutes, together with numerous computer rooms are equipped with the latest technology and all have Internet services as well as efficient security measures. The whole management service of the University of Valladolid (library, students, human resources, economic management, etc.) is computerised and uses leading edge RICS servers.

The University of Valladolid has a number of sports sections covering almost every discipline, and may be considered the largest sports club both in Valladolid, a city of over 320,000 inhabitants, as well as in the other cities in the university district. Its importance in the university sphere itself is even more far reaching, as it has hosted several Spanish Championships (earning the recognition of the Autonomous Region and the Higher Sports Council), and has won many titles in university competitions, a large number of Valladolid students taking part in both national and international competitions.

On 19^th December, 2005 the Chancellor of the University of Valladolid received the Joaquín Blume 2004 National Sports Trophy from their royal highnesses, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia of Spain. This award is given to the educational centre which has proved most outstanding on promoting, supporting and furthering sport at university.