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6GLabNet, a leading scientific infrastructure in Spain for testing 6G technologies in real-world conditions

On 8 April, the UPC unveiled 6GLabNet, an autonomous experimental network designed to test and validate next-generation mobile communications technologies and services in real environments. Serving research, teaching, public administration and industry, the infrastructure is a cutting-edge scientific facility in Europe and a key asset for accelerating innovation in 6G technology with artificial intelligence.
From left to right in the photo: Xavier Trepat, ICREA research professor at the IBEC; Pau Guillamat, researcher in the Integrative Cell and Tissue Dynamics group at the IBEC; and Marino Arroyo, a full professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the UPC

Scientists create living tissues

Capable of changing shape in a programmed manner
Solve & Unite! Hackathon

Solve & Unite! Hackathon: student innovation at UPC

Driven by students from five Unite! universities

Safe and Secure Technologies, the new BSC and UPC spin-off

That will design chips for critical sectors in which "failure is not an option"

A new method enables more accurate decoding of how brain circuits work

Published in Nature Communications

35th worldwide in Architecture and Spain’s leader in innovation

According to the 2026 Scimago World Institutions Rankings
Xalet de Catllaràs. Image: Government of Catalonia’s archive - Albert Monsalve

A study confirms that Antoni Gaudí designed the Xalet del Catllaràs

The work was carried out by the ETSAB
Students in a class

Three new bachelor’s degrees added to the UPC’s offering

For the 2026–2027 academic year

Six new master’s degrees in emerging fields

To be launched in the 2026–2027 academic year
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Discover the UPC Hydrogen Lab

With researchers Lluís Soler and Attila Husar

Discover the UPC's Doctoral School

Choose from among 45 PhD programmes

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The UPC today

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  • 70bachelor's degree
  • 100master's degree
  • 46doctoral programmes
  • 180lifelong learning programmes
  • 33.705bachelor's and master's degree and doctoral students
  • 100.781alumni
  • 3.703teaching and research staff
  • 1.935research projects
  • 141
    research groups
  • 3.131associated companies
  • 33tech base companies
  • 23patents last year

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