University de Granada

University de Granada

Organisation type: 
University
Country: 
Spain
Short name: 
UDG
Description: 

The University of Granada (UGR), founded in 1531, is one of the largest
and most important universities in Spain. It serves more than 60000
students per year, including many foreign students, as UGR is the
leader host institution in the Erasmus program. UGR, featuring 3500
professors and more than 2000 auxiliary personnel, offers a total of 75 degrees through its 123 departments and 27 centres.
UGR is also a leading institution in research, located in the top 5/10 of
Spanish universities by a variety of ranking criteria, such as national
R&D projects, fellowships awarded, publications, or international
funding. UGR is one of the few Spanish Universities listed in the
Shanghai Top 500 ranking (http://www.arwu.org/), in which its
Engineering/Technology and Computer Science Faculty is positioned at
the top of the 50 best universities in the world. It is also well recognized
for its web presence (http://www.4icu.org/top200/). Additionally, the
UGR is among the 201-300 first universities of the world and among the
3 first Spanish universities in the Academic Ranking of World
Universities (ARWU). Specialities at UGR that stand out are Mathematics
(among 101-150 position) and Computer Sciences (position 45), in
which UGR has 4 researchers at the top of the Highly Cited Researchers
list.
Internationally, we bet decidedly by our participation in the calls of the
Framework Programme of the European Union. For the duration of the
Seventh Framework Programme, the UGR has obtained a total of 66
projects, with total funding of 17.97 million euros, and for H2020, 46
projects with total funding of around 12 million euros. Our more than
4,300 researchers are grouped into 521 research groups covering all
scientific fields and disciplines from the Humanities, Social and Legal
Sciences, Engineering, Healthcare, Information Technology and
Communications and all areas of science.
Multidisciplinary group of the University of Granada, formed by
members of the Dept. of Plant Physiology, Civil Engineering, Applied
Mathematics and Chemical Engineering. The responsible researcher has
experience in measures in ecophysiological techniques in areas of
interest in the Mediterranean Basin. It is a group with extensive
international experience and endorsed experience in Development
Cooperation. Also 3 of the members, research in Biofertilizers obtained
from Agrifood Industry waste to apply in crops.

International: 
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