The medium-sized Spanish university founded in 1994, houses 76 research groups. The university has been very active in several European reseach and innovation programmes (H2020 and previous frame programmmes, LIFE, Justice, ERASMUS+, Interreg, COST, LLP, IEE, Research Fund for Coal and Steel, D. G. for Competition Policy and Strategy, Science for Peace and Security Programme-OTAN…) with over 50 European projects; with the role of coordinator in 22 projects and over 8.4 M€ overall EU funding received.