UPNA is a public university founded in 1987 by the Parliament of Navarre, with campuses in Pamplona and Tudela.

It develops its academic activity in all the areas of knowledge: Engineering, Sciences, Health Sciences, Social and Legal Sciences and Arts and Humanities.

UPNA includes an offer of 27 Bachelor’s degrees (and 8 double Bachelor’s degrees) and 33 Master’s degrees (and 5 double master’s degrees), apart from a wide range of doctorate programmes and UPNA’s own degrees.

UPNA is committed to Navarre’s sustainable development and its culture through the generation, dissemination and transfer of knowledge, whole education of people and culture promotion within a free-thinking and open environment.

UPNA is a key piece in Navarre’s researching activity, organised around research institutes, university-companies chairs and spin-offs foundation.

It counts on a researching community of over 1000 people and, with its commitment to competitiveness, UPNA has created 6 research institutes which gather over 500 of these people: Institute of Smart Cities (ISC), Institute for Advanced Materials and Mathematics (INAMAT²), Institute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics (INARBE), Institute for Sustainability & Food Chain Innovation (ISFOOD), Institute for Advanced Social Research (I-COMMUNITAS) and Institute for Multidisciplinary Research in Applied Biology (IMAB), aiming at tackling complex projects in a multidisciplinary way.

It is also part of Navarrabiomed mix centre with the Health Department of Government of Navarre, of the technology centre NAITEC, which aims at boosting the development of automotive sector technologies and mechatronics in Navarre, and the Health Research Institute of Navarre (IdiSNA), multidisciplinary and translational biomedical research area.