The Standing Committee of the Governing Council of the UPC has adopted a declaration condemning the serious violations of international law in Gaza and expressing solidarity with those affected. The statement reaffirms the University’s commitment to...

British science fiction writer Ian Watson has given the lecture 'I have no idea' on the UPC’s North Diagonal Campus on Wednesday 17 September. The event has taken place as part of the 27th Miquel Barceló UPC Science Fiction Award ceremony. This...

The UPC’s Centre for Technological Innovation in Static Converters and Drives (CITCEA) is leading a European project to redesign the current energy system in order to stabilise the power grid in the face of growing renewable energy integration. The...

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...

Coordinated by a research team from the UPC’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and involving researchers from the University along with other Unite! partners, the initiative has received funding from the alliance’s seed fund.

The Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) of the UPC is marking its 150th anniversary. Over the years, the School has trained some of the most influential names in architecture, including Domènech i Montaner, Gaudí, Puig i Cadafalch, Jujol, Sert,...

The UPC has introduced new credit fees for international students who are not nationals of European Union member states and who enrol in bachelor’s or master’s degrees. The price per credit for master’s programmes has been reduced from €102.52 to...

A research team from the UPC’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering is exploring ways to transform the treatment of bone fractures using smart, advanced biomaterials that can reduce the risk of infection and implant rejection, as well as...

On 16 June, the UPC conferred an honorary doctoral degree on Antoni Tió Sauleda, a nautical industrialist renowned for his innovation in the design and manufacture of sails. Professor Agustí Martin Mallofré, dean of the Barcelona School of Nautical...

Published by U.S. News on 17 June, the latest edition of the Best Global Universities Rankings positions the UPC as Spain’s top university in Engineering and in five subjects: Optics, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, Civil Engineering, Chemical...

SEAMPHONI is a project led by the UPC with the participation of 24 European partners and funding of €11 million from the Horizon Europe programme. It aims to transform the monitoring of marine biodiversity through the creation of an intelligent...

In a context of climate change, how will areas at risk of wildfires evolve? What about projections of extreme rainfall or the frequency and intensity of heatwaves? A total of 69 regions and municipalities from 23 European countries have received...

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

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.

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 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...