“Cum grano salis”

Abstract This short note is devoted to presentation of the essential points in the history of collaboration between the present-day Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence of the University of Granada and the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Science, with special emphasis on the place, taken in this collaboration by Control and Cybernetics. Thus, I mention encounters, conference meetings, jointly undertaken projects, as well as certain selected publications. In doing this, I also try to delineate the substance matter of the collaboration, which formed the backbone of it.