The University of Barcelona (UB) is the largest public institution of higher education in Catalonia, catering to the needs of the greatest number of students and delivering the broadest and most comprehensive offering in higher educational courses. The UB is also the principal centre of university research at a state level (it publishes more research than any other Spanish institution with the exception of the Spanish National Research Council, CSIC) and has become a European benchmark for research activity, both in terms of the number of research programs it conducts and the excellence these have achieved. The list of European and international projects in which the University of Barcelona is involved can be found at the following link.