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The of Zaragoza is a public Burdeos 469km teaching and research institution whose aim is to serve society. As the Zaragoza largest higher education Toulouse 397km centre in the Ebro Valley, Pau 235km the University combines La Almunia de almost fi ve centuries Doña Godina País Vasco of tradition and history 276km (since 1542) with a constantly updated José Antonio Mayoral Murillo. University of range of courses. Its 312km Zaragoza Rector Barcelona main mission is to generate and convey Zaragoza knowledge to provide students with a broad 315km education. The University bases its principles on quality, solidarity and Valencia openness and aims to be 308km an instrument of social transformation to drive Paraninfo Building. Faculties of Medicine and University Statue of our Nobel Prize, economic and cultural Sciences (year 1940). Currently, the seat of the Santiago Ramón y Cajal development. Rectorate Campuses

2 - - 3 Arts and Humanities Faculty of Medicine (Zaragoza)

s Medicine Faculty of Arts (Zaragoza) Faculty of Education (Zaragoza) University Technological College ’ Engineering and Classical Studies Faculty of Veterinary Science Pre-school Teacher Architecture (La Almunia) (affiliated) English Studies (Zaragoza) Primary School Teacher Civil Engineering Hispanic Philology Veterinary Science School of Engineering and Architecture (Zaragoza) Industrial Organisation Philosophy Faculty of Arts (Zaragoza) Engineering Faculty of Health and Sport Architectural Studies s History and Land Planning or Sciences (Huesca) Mechatronic Engineering Engineering of Industrial History of Art Information and Documentation Medicine Technologies Technical Architecture l Modern Languages Human Nutrition and Dietetics Journalism Technology and Odontology Telecommunication Services University School of Tourism Joint Bachelor´s Degrees Faculty of Social Sciences and Engineering e University School of Nursing (Zaragoza) (affiliated) Humanities (Teruel) Joint Food Science and Te- (affiliated) (Huesca) Tourism Electrical Engineering Fine Arts chnology and Agro-food and Nursing Electronic and Automation Rural Environment Engineering Engineering

h Faculty of Humaities and Programme University School of Nursing Sciences Education Sciences (Huesca) Industrial Design and Product (affiliated) (Teruel) Joint Law and Business Admi- Faculty of Sciences (Zaragoza) Pre-school Teacher Development Engineering Nursing nistration and Management Biotechnology Primary School Teacher Computer Engineering Programme Physics Mechanical Engineering Joint Physics and Mathematics Geology Faculty of Health and Sport Chemical Engineering Programme

ac egree Sciences (Huesca) (1)Mathematics Social and Law Sciences Joint Mathematics and Physical Activity and Sport University Centre for Defense Computer Engineering Optics and Optometry Faculty of Economics and Sciences (Zaragoza) (affiliated) Programme Chemistry Business (Zaragoza) Industrial Organisation

b d Joint Mechatronic Engineering (2)Business Administration and Faculty of Economics and Public Engineering and Industrial Organisation Engi- Faculty of Veterinary Science Management (Huesca) (Zaragoza) Management neering Programme Courses Business Administration and Technological College (Huesca) Joint Human Nutrition and Die- Food Science and Technology Economics Management Agro-food and Rural tetics and Physical Activity and Finance and Accounting Sport Sciences Programme Public Management and Environment Engineering Technological College (Huesca) Marketing and Market Research At the Administration Environmental Sciences University Technological College students can choose between (Teruel) Faculty of Social and Work Faculty of Social Sciences and 54 Bachelor’s Degrees, 6 Sciences (Zaragoza) Humanities (Teruel) Electronic and Automation Engineering joint Bachelor’s Degrees and Health Sciences Labour Relations and Human Business Administration and Resources Computer Engineering 52 Master’s Degrees. We also Faculty of Health Sciences Management (Zaragoza) Social Work Pre-school Teacher off er 45 doctoral programmes Nursing Faculty of Law (Zaragoza) Primary School Teacher and several Specifi c Courses. Physiotherapy Law Psychology Occupational Therapy 4 - - 5 (1) One or two semesters are taught also in English (2) Taught in Spanish and also in English university master’s degrees

School of Engineering and Architecture Faculty of Health Sciences (Zaragoza) Faculty of Arts (Zaragoza) Technological College (Huesca) (Zaragoza) Architecture Introduction to Research in Nursing Sciences Information Consulting and Digital Agronomic Engineering Communication Renewable Energies and Energy Efficiency Social Gerontology Advanced Studies in Art History Biomedical Engineering Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences Cultural Heritage Management (Huesca) Product Design Engineering Faculty of Social and Work Sciences (Zaragoza) Contemporary History Advanced Studies in Language, Communication Telecommunications Engineering and their Pathologies Gender Relations Research and Advanced Studies in History Electronic Engineering Teaching Program for Compulsory Secondary Ancient World and Archaeological Heritage Industrial Engineering Education, Upper Secondary Education, Faculty of Law (Zaragoza) Land and Environmental Planning Vocational Training and Languages, Art, and Computer Engineering Sport Advocacy Research in Philosophy Mechanical Engineering Right of public administration Geographical Information Systems (GIS) (for Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences (Huesca) Chemical Engineering urban and regional planning): GIS and Remote Occupational Risk Prevention sensing Assessment and Physical Training for Health

Faculty of Economics and Business (Zaragoza) Faculty of Economics and Public Management Faculty of Sciences (Zaragoza) (Huesca) Auditing Faculty of Medicine (Zaragoza) (1)Molecular and Cellular Biology Tourism Management and Planning Accounting and Finance Introduction to Research in Medicine Mundus in Membrane Engineering Management, Strategy and Marketing Genetic, Nutritional and Environmental Factors Physics and Physical Technologies Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities for Growth and Development Economics (Teruel) Geology: Techniques and Applications Sociology of Public and Social Policy Teaching Program for Compulsory Secondary Quantitative Biotechnology Education, Upper Secondary Education, ((1)Nanostructured Materials for Nanotechnology Vocational Training and Languages, Art, and Applications Faculty of Education (Zaragoza) Sport Faculty of Veterinary Science (Zaragoza) Mathematical Research and Modelling, Statistics Lifelong Learning: Introduction to Research General Health Psychology and Computing Food Quality, Safety and Technology Teaching Program for Compulsory Secondary (1) Industrial Chemistry Education, Upper Secondary Education, Animal Nutrition Taught in English Vocational Training and Languages, Art, and Molecular Chemistry and Homogeneous Sport Swine Health and Production Catalysis

6 - - 7 University community Studies: Teaching and Research Staff (XII-2018) ...... 4299 Bachelor’s Degrees (2019-2020) ...... 54 Administration and Services staff (XII-2018) ...... 1715 University Master’s Degrees (2019-2020) ...... 52 Students (2018-2019) ...... 33 639 Doctoral programmes (2018-2019) ...... 45 Specific courses (V-2019) ...... 60 Centres, departments and research institutes (V-2019) Own centres ...... 18 Research and Transfer (V-2019) Affiliated centres ...... 5 Research groups ...... 170 Departments ...... 56 Researchers in research groups ...... 2884 Own research institutes ...... 5 Company and institutional Chairs ...... 66 Joint research institutes ...... 4 Affiliated research institutes ...... 1 Budget (2019) Millions of euros ...... 284,1 The University in numbers

8 - - 9 The University of Zaragoza in the rankings

The University of Zaragoza has consolidated its position in international rankings and it is now among the top 2% of the most presti- gious worldwide. It is one of the 10 best out of the 84 throughout Spain. We are among the highest-rated 25 best worldwi- de in sports science (the fi rst in Spain), among the top 100 in chemistry (also the fi rst in Spain) and among the best 200 in Computer Science (the fourth in Spain).

10 - - 11 Strategic associations with other universities

The G9 Group of Universities includes, besides the University of Zaragoza, the universities of Cantabria, Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura, the Balearic Islands, , Oviedo, the Basque Country and the of .

Together with the Public University of Navarre, the and the University of , the University of Zaragoza forms part of the Campus Iberus Consortium, recognised as a Campus of International Excellence. The most important areas of focus of Campus Iberus are related to sustainable energy, health, food and nutrition technology, and the preservation of cultural heritage (EBRoS—European Bioregion of Science—, with the universities of Pau and Toulouse)

12 - - 13 University Research research institutes

Research, technological development and Own institutes constant innovation are essential for economic • Institute of Engineering Research (I3A) and social growth. Our research activity is channelled through the 222 research • Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI) groups. At the University of Zaragoza, 2884 • Institute of Nanoscience of Aragon (INA) researchers work in 170 research groups. • Institute of Mathematics and Applications (IUMA)

University research institutes also provide • Environmental Sciences Institute of Aragon (IUCA) doctoral, specialisation and postgraduate programmes based on their specialities. They are primarily interdisciplinary in structure and Joint institutes

activity. The University of Zaragoza has fi ve • Material Sciences Institute of Aragon (ICMA), with the Spanish High Council for Scientific Research own university institutes, four joint institutes (CSIC)

and one affi liated institute. • Institute of Synthetic Chemistry and Homogeneous Catalysis (ISQCH), with the Spanish High Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) We also participate in the IIS Aragón (Aragon • AgriFood Institute of Aragon (IA2), with the Agrifood Research and Technology Centre of Aragon Health Research Institute), accredited as a (CITA) (Government of Aragon) centre of excellence by the Carlos III Health Institute. • Centre for Research of Energy Resources and Consumption (CIRCE), CIRCE Foundation

Affiliated institutes

• Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC)

14 - - 15 Scientific Infrastructures

The University of Zaragoza also participates in four special scientifi c and technical infrastructures: the LSC (Canfranc Underground Laboratory), the LMA (Advanced Microscopy Laboratory), the CIBER (Centre for Network Biomedical Research) and the RES (Spanish Supercomputing Network). It also forms part of the LIFTEC (Research Laboratory for Fluid Dynamics and Combustion Technologies). The Centre for Encephaloparthy and Emerging Diseases is another scientifi c infrastructure in which research of fi rst level is developed.

The University Library stocks over one million books and houses the University’s bibliographic treasures (including around 254 incunables and over 400 manuscripts).

16 - - 17 Knowledge Transfer

As knowledge transfer is the University of Zaragoza’s third mission, we are committed to ‘open innovation’, a formula whereby companies associate with academic institutions to accelerate the innovation cycle.

The University of Zaragoza is the fourth Spanish university in patent royalties. Besides the CEMINEM, a joint research centre with companies, which has a business incubator (CEMINEM SPINUP), the University also participates in the important action of creating companies with other entities (MIE and EXPLORER programmes). To date, 53 spin-off and start-up companies have been created. Zaragoza is the second Spanish public university by number of institutional and company chairs.

The University has consolidated its position as a worldwide leader in innovation in the home appliance sector.

18 - - 19 Internationalisation

The University of Zaragoza’s international go on educational visits to other countries commitment is based on mobility programmes every year. for students and personnel, double-degree programmes, bilateral and multilateral To support this internationalisation process, agreements, research projects and worldwide the University off ers an increasing number university cooperation projects for of courses in English, a linguistic support development. programme for our personnel and an annual call for internationalisation funding. The The University of Zaragoza has almost 2000 institution also takes part in international agreements with institutions from all over the forums and fairs and it is a member of world. Over 1000 of our students participate international higher education associations. in various exchange programmes annually and we welcome around 800 international The University of Zaragoza has Confucius exchange students every year and more than Institute in collaboration with the Nanjing a thousand students of Spanish, coming Tech University and with the Confucius together from more than 90 diff erent Institute Headquarters (Hanban). countries. Around 120 members of our staff

20 - - 21 University Centre of Modern Languages Spanish as The University of Zaragoza was one of the fi rst (1918) to teach modern languages. The a foreign University Centre of Modern Languages currently teaches 10 languages: Arabic, language English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Modern Greek, Portuguese and summer and Russian. courses

The University of Zaragoza was the fi rst Spanish university to teach Spanish as a foreign language (since 1927). We organise a wide range of Spanish courses for foreign students from all over the world.

We also off er a variety of summer courses, many of them held in Jaca, but also in Zaragoza and other places in Aragon.

22 - - 23 It also contains the Museum Cultural of Natural Sciences of the University of Zaragoza, activity. opened in 2015. The museum Paraninfo houses an important palaeontology collection Building and it exhibits the collection gathered together between the late 19th century and The University of Zaragoza early 20th century by the is heavily involved in cultural scientist and natural history activities on all its campuses. lecturer Longinos Navás. In Zaragoza, the Paraninfo Building (opened after its renovation in 2008) is the home of the Rectorship and one of the key places in the city, due to the high number of activities held there (congresses, scientifi c meetings, public lectures and exhibitions). It is a Site of Cultural Interest, which aff ords the building the maximum level of protection for artistic heritage existing in Spain.

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