Universidad de Granada / Spain

Universidad de Granada: The UGR (founded in 1531) is a public comprehensive research university with ca. 55,000 students, 3,700 academics and 2,600 administrative and support staff. Its 26 Faculties and Schools and 124 Departments offer 96 undergraduate degrees, 164 master's degrees and 28 doctoral programmes organized in 3 overarching doctoral schools. It has 19 research institute s and over 400 research teams working in all disciplinary fields. The UGR is currently ranked 2nd in Spain according to the Shanghai ranking (2023) and is the leading regional university in the south of Spain, with 7 disciplines appearing in the top 200. As a public higher education institution, it is committed not on ly to quality and excellence in education, learning and research but also to activities targeting the transfer of scientific, techni cal and artistic knowledge to society, the betterment of society and a sustainable future for the planet. Biosafety and biosecurity are a preventive discipline whose main objective is to guarantee the safety and health of personnel at risk of exposure to biological agents as well as preserve the integrity of the environment. Aware of this need, the UGR has an Occupational Risk Prevention Service (https://ssp.ugr.es/ ) where Biosecurity is considered one of its main lines of work. Thus, for more than 20 years, many laboratories have been authorized in this public institution with a Biological Safety Level 2 and it has a laboratory of the highest level with a BSL3. They research biomedical and health topics, making it possible for the UGR to be one of the world's leading universities in this type of biotechnological and biomedical research The University of Granda has a wide range of learners, including undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students. Age groups are: 18-45