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Leonardo Grants awarded to UPC researchers Inés Aquilué, Gissell Estrada and Juan Murcia

The 2025 call for BBVA Foundation’s Leonardo Grants has selected the projects of Inés Aquilué, Gissell Estrada and Juan Murcia to study, respectively, the reconstruction of cities after armed conflicts, the mathematical modelling of cell migration and the resilience of infrastructure in the face of extreme climate events.

Interview with British writer Ian Watson

Guest author at the Miquel Barceló UPC Science Fiction Award ceremony
Engineer Carla Gómez, co-founder of Theker Robotics and UPC graduate, upon delivering the inaugural lecture

The UPC opens the 2025–2026 academic year

By invoking the power of imagination 

Institutional declaration on the humanitarian situation in Gaza

Approved by the Standing Committee of the Governing Council

Stabilising the power grid to handle renewable energy integration

Objective of a European project led by CITCEA-UPC

Restoring urban rivers and preventing flooding in European cities

A project led by the UPC with funding from the Unite! seed fund

150 years of architectural education in Barcelona on display

The exhibition brings together original works and documents by some of the great names in architecture

The UPC reduces tuition fees for non-EU students enrolling in master’s degrees

The price per credit has been reduced from €102.52 to €45
X-ray of a jaw

Biomaterials to enhance bone fracture treatment

A UPC research project under the European initiative HYDROHEAL
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