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The BSC inaugurates its new corporate headquarters

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC) has started its activity at its new corporate headquarters, the BSC-Repsol Building at 1-3 Plaça Eusebi Güell in Barcelona. The new 12,000 m2 facility, at which 530 BSC employees work, is preparing to receive the MareNostrum 5 supercomputer.

The UPC is the most active Catalan entity in artificial intelligence research and innovation according to the report produced by the Government of Catalonia.

The UPC leads artificial intelligence (AI) research and innovation in Catalonia

According to a report by the Government of Catalonia

The rector Daniel Crespo and Ricardo Bofill, after Bofill was conferred an honorary doctoral degree

The UPC confers an honorary doctoral degree on the architect Ricardo Bofill

At the Santa Maria del Mar basilica in Barcelona

The UPC’s NanoSat Lab demonstrates the feasibility of using nanosatellites to observe the Earth and monitor climate change

The NanoSat Lab generates maps of sea ice and soil moisture

Through two CubeSats as part of the FSSCat mission

Three CREB UPC projects receive awards in the 2021 CaixaResearch Validate call

Three CREB UPC biomedical engineering projects receive awards

Have been selected in the “la Caixa” Foundation’s 2021 CaixaResearch Validate call

60 elderly people from Spain and Portugal will be testing the app in October.

App based on intangible cultural heritage to prevent memory loss in the elderly

A project led by the UPC’s Soft Computing research group

The UPC filed 15 patent applications in 2020

The UPC, leader in patent filing

According to data from the European Patent Office

UPC, Vall d’Hebron and UAB researchers design an app to help assess the severity of symptoms in chronic fatigue syndrome

An app to help assess the severity of symptoms in chronic fatigue syndrome

Designed by a UPC, Vall d'Hebron and UAB research team

Image of a solar flare captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory in 2017. Credits: NASA / SDO / Goddard

Extrasolar flares detected by using the GPS

Research project by UPC and IEEC researchers

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28,669 students
3,459 teaching and research staff
2,061 administrative and service staff
66 bachelor's degrees
81 master's degrees
45 doctoral programmes

18 schools
265 lifelong learning programmes
25 patents last year
294 million euros 2021 budget
55 million euros R&D income
69,442 alumni

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