University of Cadiz

Founded in 1979, UCA has more than 21.000 students, approx. 1.800 staff/professors, 847 administration workers, 194 research groups and around 2.100 scientists. UCA leads the “CAMPUS DE EXCELENCIA INTERNACIONAL DEL MAR” (CEIMAR), a campus whose mission is to become an international reference in teaching and research in marine themes including the Science, Engineering and Humanities (a strategic alliance of universities, research centres, science and technology parks and innovative companies of the South of Spain, Portugal and the North of Morroco). UCA is the coordinator of the European University of the SEAS (SEA-EU), an alliance of 6 initially European Universities (UCA (Spain), Bretagne Occidentale in Brest (France), Kiel (Germany), Gdansk (Poland), Split (Crotia) and Malta). Recently, 3 universities have joined the alliance: University of Parthenope (Italy), the University of Algarve (Portugal) and the university of Nord (Norway).UCA participates or has participated in 24 H2020 projects and currently participates in 14 Horizon Europe Projects, 3 of them MSCA-PF, 1 MSCA-DN and 2 MSCA-Staff Exchange. In addition, UCA participates in European projects of other calls as LIFE, EU4Health, PRIMA and Interreg.