The UPC organises advanced, free training in AI for European university students

Starting in May, the UPC will offer ten free, online courses in AI for university students across Europe, as part of the University’s Artificial Intelligence Strategy, LEIA UPC. These advanced training programmes are organised in collaboration with the BSC through the European project BSC AI Factory and aim to equip students with the technological, ethical and legal skills required to master AI.

May 07, 2026

The training programme Ethics & AI + HPC Management is part of the LEIA UPC Academy and falls within the University’s Artificial Intelligence Strategy, LEIA UPC. It comprises ten courses, which will be delivered three times over the next two years, with the first edition starting in May. In some UPC schools, students who complete this training will be awarded 3 ECTS credits. In the first edition, UPC students will be given priority in enrolment, and there will be 30 places per intake.

Registration for the courses is now open. You can consult the offer here:

LEIA UPC Academy
Course Level Start date End date Enrolment deadline
 Ethics & AI Basic 04/05/2026 05/06/2026 03/05/2026

Prompt Engineering and Creative Applications with Open-Source and Commercial Generative AI

Basic 08/06/2026 29/06/2026 07/06/2026

Transformers, LLMs, RAG and Agents: From Theory to Production

Advanced 15/06/2026 15/07/2026 14/06/2026
Python for AI Basic 22/06/2026 24/07/2026 21/06/2026
Advanced Econometrics and Deep Learning for Financial Time Series Advanced 07/09/2026 02/10/2026 06/09/2026
Shallow Learning Intermediate 14/09/2026 23/10/2026 13/09/2026
Deep Learning for Computer Vision Intermediate 14/09/2026 23/10/2026 13/09/2026
Reinforcement Learning Intermediate 25/05/2026 03/07/2026 24/05/2026
Neural Language, Speech, and Multimodal Models Advanced 02/11/2026 04/12/2026 01/11/2026
Visual Tools for AI Basic 30/11/2026 08/01/2027 29/01/2027