The University of Seville (USE), created in the early 16th century, is one of the most important higher education institutions in Spain, with 70,000 students, 4,400 professors, and 2,400 administrative and service staff. USE will have as third party for the administrative and financial management of costs the Association for Investigation and Industrial Cooperation of Andalusia (AICIA) which is a non-profit legal entity which is linked to the USE through the Framework Agreement signed on the 12th of December 2011. AICIA acts on USE's behalf for the administrative and financial management of costs engaged by USE in its participation in EU Research and Innovation projects. AICIA does not perform scientific/technical work in the project. As foreseen by the EC in its Guide to Financial Issues relating to H2020 Indirect Actions, AICIA is to be considered a third party making their resources available to the beneficiary, under the special case of foundations, created in order to manage the administrative tasks of the beneficiary (Special Cases, Foundations, spin-off companies, etc. created in order to manage the administrative task of the beneficiary).

USE will be involved in the project through the GRVC group which has 70 researchers and engineers. The GRVC researchers have a long tradition in the EU Framework Programmes leading or participating in 24 projects: 5 projects of the FP4, 4 of the FP5 (leading one), 4 of the FP6 (leading one), 8 of FP7 (leading three) and 4 of H2020 calls (leading one), most of them related to Unmanned Aerial Systems.

The GRVC group was the Scientific and Technical Coordinator of the FP5 COMETS IST project, the first project in Europe demonstrating experimentally the cooperation of multiple heterogeneous UAVs and its application to forest fires. From June 2006 until August 2009 the group coordinated the successful AWARE IST that developed and validated in field experiments a platform providing functionalities required for the cooperation of UAVs with ground sensor-actuator wireless networks, including the worldwide first joint load transportation by means of three coupled helicopters. GRVC was also the Associated Coordinator of the FP7 CONET Network of Excellence and the FP7 PLANET project dealing with cooperating distributed systems and applications to environment protection and airport automation. The head of the GRVC was the coordinator of ARCAS, that contributed to the emergence of aerial manipulation developing the first aerial robots with multi-joint arms in the world, and also the coordinator of EC-SAFEMOBIL, that developed worldwide first technologies in the landing of helicopters and fixed-wing UAVs on mobile platforms and the safe multi-target tracking with multiple UAVs. From 2015 GRVC coordinates the H2020 AEROARMS on aerial robots with multiple arms for applications in oil and gas industries. Moreover, GRVC is a partner of the H2020 project AEROBI on the application of aerial robots with arms to bridge inspection, and is leading the GRVC team participating in the Challenge 3 of EUROC. GRVC is also led the team composed of the University of Seville, CATEC and GMV that participated in the MBZIRC competition of the Khalifa University, being one of the few teams in the world selected to be sponsored.

GRVC is also participating in the H2020 project MultiDrone for the coordination of multiple drones for filming applications and the training network Marine UAS on Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Systems for Marine and Coastal Monitoring with two Thesis: Multi-UAS planning and trajectory generation for safe long duration missions and distributed approaches for coverage and tracking missions with multiple heterogeneous UAVs for coastal areas

In Spain GRVC has also participated in a long list of projects dealing with Unmanned Aerial Systems including the ATLANTIDA project on Air Traffic Management led by Boeing Research and Technology Europe and the SAVIER projects on Future Human Machine Interfaces for UAVs funded by AIRBUS DS.

GRVC participated in many successful technology transfers to companies including AIRBUS DS, EADS, BOEING, INDRA, ITURRI Group, NAVANTIA, DEIMOS and many others.