New call—running until 15 July—of this programme for start-up acceleration and investment readiness. For the students, recent graduates and academic and research staff at the UPC who have founded a tech-based start-up or spin-off.

Professor Francesc Torres took office as rector of the UPC on 3 June in an event chaired by the minister of Research and Universities of the Government of Catalonia, Núria Montserrat.

Francesc Torres has taken office as rector of the UPC on 3 June, in a ceremony that has been presided over by the minister of Research and Universities, Núria Montserrat. The event has taken place in the lecture hall of the Barcelona School of...

A research team from the UPC and the UB has spent two and a half years monitoring the Barcelona coastline to quantify the scale of floating marine litter and to identify transport flows and accumulation zones for plastic waste. The results of the...

Professor Francesc Torres has been elected/reelected as rector of the UPC, according to the early/provisional results of the voting held from 13 to 16 May. Torreshas been elected with 53.280% of the weighted votes, factoring in blank ballots, ahead...

Check the 2025 rector election website to see the early results of the vote held from 13 to 16 May.

The UPC Artificial Intelligence Challenge (IA Challenge) will recognise the best projects applying this technology in any of the University’s fields of knowledge. The competition is open to more than 30,000 UPC bachelor’s and master’s students, who...

The candidates for UPC rector are professors Daniel Crespo Artiaga and Francesc Torres Torres. From today, 13 May, until 16 May, voting takes place by electronic ballot on the website eleccionesrectorat2025.upc.edu. The provisional results will be...

From 13 to 15 May, the UPC, through the CIT-UPC, is showcasing cutting-edge projects and solutions in the fields of IoT, AI and digital transformation.

A joint research effort by the UPC and the UGR has developed an innovative method to detect and classify areas at high risk of compound flooding—flooding caused by a combination of intense rainfall, river overflows and coastal events such as storms...

Voting will take place electronically at eleccionsrectorat2025.upc.edu from 13 to 16 May 2025

Voting will take place electronically at eleccionsrectorat2025.upc.edu from 13 to 16 May 2025

On May 8 at 4 p.m., candidates for rector of the UPC Daniel Crespo and Francesc Torres faced off in an electoral debate in the Auditorium of the Vèrtex building, located on the Diagonal Nord Campus in Barcelona. The event was broadcast live on...

The UPC doctoral studies will be presented at an event in the Auditorium of the Vèrtex building. The event will also feature the institutional final of the Thesis in 4 Minutes competition and will be streamed live on YouTube.

The UPC is resuming its academic activity with full normality on all its campuses from Wednesday, April 30th.

The UPC is the Spanish university that filed the highest number of European patent applications in 2024, according to data from the European Patent Office. The UPC’s filings rose by more than 30% compared to the previous year.

The UPC’s Maritime Engineering Laboratory is taking part in a European project aimed at improving the management of plastic pollution in the north-western Mediterranean and raising public awareness about the importance of protecting the marine...

A team from the UPC and the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia has developed polymeric resins derived from plant-based materials aimed at reducing 3D printing’s reliance on fossil fuel-based resins. The research findings have been published...

On 1 April, the UPC presented the Interdisciplinary Research Institute of Architecture (IRIA-UPC) with the aim of promoting and strengthening research, innovation and knowledge transfer in architecture, urban planning and building. IRIA-UPC, which...

The UPC is listed among the world’s top 25 in Architecture and top 50 in Space and Planetary Sciences, according to the Scimago World Institutions Rankings. In total, the UPC is listed among the top 100 universities worldwide in nine rankings and...

The 2025 QS World University Rankings by Subject rank the UPC the world’s 38th in Architecture and Built Environment and in the 21–40 band in Art History. The rankings also place the University among the world’s top 100 in the broad subject area of...

The MineXR project, led by the UPC, has received funding from the Unite! Seed Fund to develop an immersive extended reality (XR) environment to enhance safety and practical training for mining engineering students across Europe.

The project “Cities in times of drought or abundance”, funded by the Unite! Seed Fund and coordinated by the UPC, will gather European experts to develop architectural and urban solutions in response to the effects of climate change.

The UPC is introducing five new master’s degrees for the academic year 2025-2026, addressing the demand for specialised professionals in fields such as digital architecture, distributed energy systems, biomedical technologies, industry 4.0 and water...

The UPC’s Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics (LAB) participates in a European project focused on developing technologies to reduce underwater noise pollution caused by maritime traffic, which poses a threat to marine ecosystems. The LAB will assess...

The 2025 Unite! Seed Fund offers financial support to students, researchers and professors who wish to initiate joint initiatives between at least three Unite! universities. The deadline for all submissions is 20 March.

The 3rd Virtual Postgraduate Fair kicked off on Monday, March 3, and will run online until March 7, providing information on the range of postgraduate courses offered at the UPC: master’s, doctoral and lifelong learning master’s degrees....

Researchers from the UPC’s Space Exploration Laboratory are contributing to the development of advanced technologies for the storage and refuelling of cryogenic propellants in microgravity conditions. This technology, which will be key to driving...

Under the motto ‘Unite Students!: our soul, our core,’ this edition will gather 500 participants from the nine universities of the European alliance, focusing on the role of students in its future. The event provides a key opportunity to drive...

On 19 February, the UPC’s Governing Council unanimously approved the decision to cease posting on the University’s institutional profiles on X. This decision reflects the University’s commitment to communicating in spaces that ensure information...