University of Cádiz

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 9 European Universities (UCA (Spain), Bretagne Occidentale in Brest (France), Kiel (Germany), Gdansk (Poland), Split (Crotia), Malta), University of Parthenope (Italy), the University of Algarve (Portugal) and the university of Nord (Norway). UCA has outstanding libraries, rated among the best in the country and with the seal of quality of the National Evaluation and Accreditation Agency (ANECA). One of the core future challenges faced by the UCA is adapting new technologies to education.

Previous and current involvement in EU-funded research and training programmes/actions/projects:

UCA has participated in 24 H2020 projects and currently participates in 13 Horizon Europe Projects, 6 in Pillar II, 6 in MSCA programme ( 3 of them MSCA-PF, 1 MSCA-DN and 2 MSCA-Staff Exchange) and 1 EIC Pathfinder Open in Health Field. In addition, UCA participates in European projects of other calls as LIFE, EU4Health, PRIMA and Interreg.