Abstract
OBJECTIVES: to analyse how 22 universities in Spain have implemented the HPU framework in different contexts. METHODS: firstly, a document analysis was used as a research method to assess the action areas of work to promote HPU framework. Documents were selected from the university's networks and numerically coded. RESULTS: a Multiple Correspondence Analysis and a Hierarchical Cluster Analysis identified three types of universities based on the implementation of health promotion areas: "Incipient HPU" that is a heterogeneous group that tend to apply some of the HPU principles by addressing acute actions in time; "Premature HPU" englobe those universities that express the need to incorporate a HPU roadmap but does not express it in practice, and "Mature HPU" that are recognized by university authorities. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: these results show how universities recognize and implement the HPU framework differently even when they are part of the same network.