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The University of Burgos is located within the Campus of San Amaro, which boasts an extremely fine historic and artistic enclave: the Hospital del Rey. A former hospital for pilgrims of the Road to Santiago, it was founded in 1195 by Alfonso VII. Within the university campus both the ancient heritage and the most avant-garde facilities and technology coexist in a perfect dialogue of harmony that favours both teaching and innovation.
Furthermore, the University of Burgos is located just a short distance from the core centre of Burgos, a city whose artistic jewels, monuments and history are a lure and an invitation to study the Spanish language and culture. Burgos is also a privileged city, peppered with most attractive parks, gardens, promenades and natural spaces, some of which can be enjoyed within the university campus, making possible both contact with nature and the practise of leisure and sporting activities. The University of Burgos has currently about 10.000 students and offers courses leading to over 50 under and post degrees.
Entrepreneurship
Since this institution was founded in 1994, our university has consolidated 76 research groups and it has been very active in several Research & Innovation European Programmes (H2020 and previous FPs, 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. Currently, UBU participates in 26 on-going projects (in 12 of them as coordinator) in 8 different EU programmes with an average of 1.7 M€ of EU funding in the last 4 years.
Commercialization and Partnerships
The aim of the The Technology Transfer Office (TTO) of the Univesidad de Burgos is to promote Innovation technology through the reseach results transfer and the conexions between the University and the new needs and requirements of the society - we are the link between the University and the Industry . Through the TTO, the University of Burgos has filed more than 200 patent and utility model applications.