Faculty of Biosciences

Part of the obligatory external QA system Decision: positive
AQU: Institutional accreditation
  • Programme
    Advanced Biotechnology
  • Other names
    • Biotecnologia Avançada
    • Biotecnología Avanzada
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
    • Màster
    • Máster
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF level 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Programme
    Advanced Genetics
  • Other names
    • Genètica Avançada / Advanced Genetics
    • Genética Avanzada
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
    • Màster
    • Máster
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF level 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Programme
    Applied Microbiology
  • Other names
    • Microbiologia Aplicada
    • Microbiología Aplicada
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
    • Màster
    • Máster
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF level 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Programme
    Biochemistry
  • Other names
    • Bioquímica
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor
    • Grau
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF level 6)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Programme
    Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biomedicine
  • Other names
    • Bioquímica, Biologia Molecular i Biomedicina
    • Bioquímica, Biología Molecular y Biomedicina
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
    • Màster
    • Máster
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF level 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Programme
    Bioinformatics
  • Other names
    • Bioinformática
    • Bioinformàtica / Bioinformatics
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
    • Máster
    • Màster
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF level 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Programme
    Biology
  • Other names
    • Biologia
    • Biología
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor
    • Grau
    • Grado
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF level 6)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Programme
    Biomedical Sciences
  • Other names
    • Ciencias Biomédicas
    • Ciències Biomèdiques
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor
    • Grado
    • Grau
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF level 6)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Programme
    Biotechnology
  • Other names
    • Biotecnologia
    • Biotecnología
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor
    • Grau
    • Grado
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF level 6)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Programme
    Cytogenetics and Reproductive Biology
  • Other names
    • Citogenètica i Biologia de la Reproducció
    • Citogenética y Biología de la Reproducción
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
    • Màster
    • Máster
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF level 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Programme
    Environmental Biology
  • Other names
    • Biologia Ambiental
    • Biología Ambiental
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor
    • Grau
    • Grado
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF level 6)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Programme
    Genetics
  • Other names
    • Genética
    • Genètica
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor
    • Grado
    • Grau
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF level 6)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Programme
    Microbiology
  • Other names
    • Microbiologia
    • Microbiología
  • Qualification/award
    • Bachelor
    • Grau
    • Grado
  • Level
    first cycle (NQF level 6)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Programme
    Neurosciences
  • Other names
    • Neurociencias
    • Neurociències
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
    • Máster
    • Màster
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF level 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme
  • Programme
    Terrestrial Ecology and Biodiversity Management
  • Other names
    • Ecologia Terrestre i Gestió de la Biodiversitat
    • Ecologia Terrestre y Gestión de la Biodiversidad
  • Qualification/award
    • Master
    • Màster
    • Máster
  • Level
    second cycle (NQF level 7)
  • Programme type
    Full recognised degree programme

Verifiable Credentials

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Currently, two types of credentials can be issued:

EBSI Verifiable Accreditations (VA) can be used by a higher education institution in the context of the EBSI Early Adopters programme.

  • The VA allows the institution to prove its external quality assurance on the Trusted Issuer Registry (TIR). EBSI VAs are only issued for external quality assurance results with an official status in a national system (“part of obligatory EQA system”).
  • At present, the higher education institution’s EBSI DID needs to be communicated to EQAR and recorded in DEQAR manually at the moment. If you are a higher education institution participating in EBSI, please contact us to register your DID.
  • EBSI VAs are issued by EQAR under its DID did:ebsi:zk4bhCepWSYp9RhZkRPiwUL.

DEQAR Format Verifiable Credentials primarily serve as a proof of concept and public demonstrator currently.

  • DEQAR Format VCs are based on the plain W3C Recommendation and our own data model. While they closely follow the EBSI Schema, no EBSI-specific or EU-specific elements or data types are used.
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Please note: this is an experimental feature.