USE International Projects Office

With more than 70,000 students and 7,600 staff, the University of Seville (USE) (https://www.us.es/) is the third largest university in Spain. More than 13,000 students are following postgraduate courses, enrolled into its more than 160 master programmes and 34 doctoral programmes. The USE is also committed to research with more than 400 national and regional ongoing projects and more than 80 Horizon Europe ongoing projects. In addition to its around 4,600 academic staff, there are more than 1,400 researchers under different contracts. Research is carried out within 134 academic departments, 8 Joint Research Centres (USE - Spanish National Scientific Research Council (CSIC)) and 13 University Research Institutes. This results in a rich variety of research including Life Sciences, Engineering and Applied Nuclear Techniques, Materials Science, Physics, Quantum mechanics, Architecture, Economics and Social Sciences, Humanities, etc. Moreover, The USE Research, Technology and Innovation Centre (CITIUS) (https://citius.us.es/web/) concentrates 15 USE General Research Services that provide the most advanced, cutting-edge analytical instrumentation and techniques to research groups, public research institutes and industry. The USE also coordinates Ulysseus, an European University alliance (8 partners) supported by the European Comission (EC) through the relevant Erasmus+ inititative (https://ulysseus.eu/). With a powerful educational and technological infrastructure, the USE embraces academia, industry, engineering and science, being an intellectual benchmark in the South of Europe. In 2025, the USE was ranked among the top 500 universities in the world and among the top 10 universities in Spain according to the Shanghai ranking. Furthermore, in 2025 the USE has been recognised with the Human Resources Strategy for Researchers award (HRS4R). The HRS4R is awarded by the EC to research performing organizations that support a favourable and boosted work environment, progressing in the implementation of the principles of the European Charter for Researchers in their policies and practices. In the first four years (2021-2024) of the current EU framework programme for research and innovation HORIZON EUROPE (2021-2027), the USE has received grants for more than 80 projects, being awarded more than 28 million euros. Among all these projects, 3 belong to the ERC programme under Pillar 1 (1 StG, 1 CoG and 1 AdG), 47 belong to the MSCA programme under Pillar 1 (22 MSCA-PF, 9 MSCA-DN, 15 MSCA-SE and 1 MSCA-CITIZENS), and 25 belong to the Clusters 1 to 6 under Pillar 2. The researchers with Marie Curie postdoctoral contracts at USE will be considered for a faculty position at the end of their contract, as the USE includes MSCA PF fellows in its annual researcher stabilization plan, as a specific measure to retain excellent researchers.