Presentation

The Dean and the Faculty Executive Team of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Granada (UGR) greet you and welcome you on behalf of the entire University Community of our Faculty.

The Faculty of Sciences is a reference centre of the UGR, founded in 1857, which currently has approximately 1,000 teaching and research staff (PDI), nearly 6,000 students, and around 100 members of administrative and service personnel (PAS).

It offers a total of 12 undergraduate degrees: Biology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Environmental Sciences, Statistics, Physics, Geology, Industrial Electronics Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mathematics, Optics and Optometry, and Chemistry, as well as two double degrees: Computer Science + Mathematics and Physics + Mathematics. Additionally, the Faculty's teaching and research staff participate in 19 master's programs and 10 doctoral programs, which completes the Faculty's educational offerings.

Our centre is organized academically through 12 Teaching Commissions linked to each of its degrees. Its governing bodies are the Faculty Board and its Governing Committee, where general coordination and operational matters are studied, analyzed, and decided. The Faculty Board represents different sectors (PDI, students, and PAS) as well as the Departments with the most teaching activity at our Faculty.

A fundamental role in the Faculty is held by its more than 30 Departments. Within them, teaching and research staff are organized into 132 research groups, where excellent work is conducted that makes our Faculty a reference centre at the UGR and beyond. This diversity facilitates interaction among members, a very positive aspect in today's context, where research increasingly has a multidisciplinary character. Moreover, if the research work of our Faculty is important, its relationship with the social environment in which it operates and the transfer of results to it are equally important, with special mention to collaboration with the Health Sciences Technology Park (PTS).

Another important aspect to highlight, within the framework of university outreach, is that the Faculty of Sciences is engaged in pioneering scientific dissemination programs and projects: Science Week, Night of Researchers, Science Café, Secondary School Research and Innovation Initiation Project (PIIISA), Science and Society, and Summer Campus, CEI BioTic. Leadership and participation in all these projects is making our Faculty a national reference.

The dual teaching and research role of the Faculty's professors enables comprehensive training of our students, which is enhanced by a wide range of activities: student reception events, career information sessions, entrepreneurship workshops, cultural and sports activities. In some of our degrees, mandatory external internships play an important role in student training, and a common goal is to increase their offerings. All of this aims to train responsible, supportive young people who are open to society in general and to their particular environment.

The Faculty's international vocation is noteworthy, both at the research level, with numerous collaborations and relationships with other research centres, agreements, projects and contacts, and at the teaching level, where international mobility programs increasingly play a fundamental role, especially in a university like the University of Granada, an international reference for being the European university that receives and sends the most students within the ERASMUS program, and that has an excellent international mobility program of its own.

For all these reasons, the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Granada, and on its behalf the Faculty Executive Team, wishes to extend its warmest welcome to all researchers, teachers, and students who visit us. Our doors are open, and we look forward to meeting you.

Best regards

The Dean and the Faculty Executive Team of the Faculty of Sciences