Research is conducted by permanent staff members, assistants, associate professors and scholars. Their number grows every year and they currently total around 760 working in some
ninety research groups.

The distribution of our research staff by field of knowledge is balanced according to the University's departments and their
incidence on said fields. 30% of the research groups belong to the Basic and Health Science field, followed by Social Science
(26.5%), Engineering and Technology (23.5%) and, finally, Economics and Law (20%). Both our research staff and the number of research projects has grown both in basic -funded by European Union programmes, the Spanish or the Navarre Government and in applied science, transferred to companies and agencies through the University Research Results Transfer Office (OTRI Navarre). In general lines, research products are similarly distributed among the different fields of knowledge.

Doctoral Thesis

Part of this research is aimed at doctoral theses. By area of
knowledge, they are concerned with Engineering and Technology (33%), followed by Biomedical, Exact and
Natural Sciences (28%), Economics, Business Science
and Law (23%) and Social Science (13%).

Grants and Financial Aid

One important aspect of research is the annual supply of
public grants aimed at fostering training in research. They
include grants for introduction to research, doctorate courses, predoctoral and postdoctoral research and bridgegrants for doctorate students, in addition to financial aid to cover living expenses in other countries for predoctoral scholars.

Services to researchers and companies

The Research Results Transfer Office (OTRI Navarre) depends on the Rector's Department of Research and its purpose is to promote and manage relations between University researchers, companies and official agencies, encouraging the transfer of science-technology to the productive sectors. It is basically responsible for research contracts with companies, patents, European R&D and innovation projects and the detection of technological demand and supply. The office mediated in 124 contracts in 2002.

The Research Support Service is the unit created to coordinate the provision of experimental technique services to the University's research groups and public and private enterprise. In 2002, this service issued 102 reports and quality certificates.

The Institute of Agri-biotechnology

Its activity is focused on research in fields such as physiology, biochemistry and the molecular biology of plants. More recently, it has embarked upon projects related to natural resources in the form of the region's flora and fauna. It was created by agreement with the Scientific Research Council and the Government of
Navarre is also involved.