Universidad de Granada / Spain

The project partnership consists of one local and two European partners. The coordinating organization is the Turkish Society of Microbiology, and the project partners are the University of Minho from Portugal and the University of Granada from Spain.

University of Granada (UGR): The University of Granada, founded in 1531, is a comprehensive public research university with approximately 55,000 students, 3,700 academic staff, and 2,600 administrative and support personnel. It comprises 26 Faculties and Schools, 124 Departments, and offers 96 bachelor's degrees, 164 master's degrees, and 28 doctoral programs organized within 3 doctoral schools. The university hosts 19 research institutes across all disciplinary fields and more than 400 research teams. According to the 2023 Shanghai Ranking, the University of Granada currently ranks 2nd in Spain and is the leading regional university in southern Spain, with 7 disciplines placed in the global top 200.

As a public higher education institution, it is committed not only to quality and excellence in education, teaching, and research, but also to the transfer of scientific, technical, and artistic knowledge to society, to improving society, and to activities aimed at a sustainable future.

Biosafety and biological safety is a preventive discipline whose main purpose is to guarantee the safety and health of personnel exposed to biological agents and to protect the integrity of the environment. Aware of this need, the University of Granada has an Occupational Health and Safety Service that considers biosafety one of its main areas of work. For this reason, for more than 20 years, this public institution has authorized numerous laboratories at Biosafety Level 2 (BSL-2), and it also has a BSL-3 laboratory — the highest level.

The university conducts research in biomedical and health-related fields, which has positioned the University of Granada as one of the world's leading universities in this type of biotechnological and biomedical research. The University of Granada serves a wide range of students, including undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students. Age groups: 18–45.