UPC rector Francesc Torres has revived the tradition of summer greeting videos for the university community with a message reflecting on the role of technology in society, inspired by the American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.

The 2026-2027 edition of the US News Best Global Universities Rankings placed the UPC as the top university in Spain in five subjects: Engineering, Optics, Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, Civil Engineering, and Green and Sustainable Science...

A team of six students from the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB) have won first prize at the Tongji International Construction Festival in Shanghai. This year’s challenge was to design a small pavilion that rethought the concept of a home.

On Thursday 18 June, renowned jazz pianist and UPC honorary doctoral degree holder Ignasi Terraza together with ETSETB and FIB professor Philippe Salembier has opened Sónar+D with ImprovIA. This duo improvisation concert features an artificial...

Under this new collaboration framework with the UPC, Microsoft has launched a project with inLab FIB to research advanced techniques aimed at improving the performance and speed of graph databases, which are key to managing large information...

The UPC deeply regrets the situation that the people of Venezuela are experiencing following the two earthquakes that have shaken the north of the country, and joins in offering its heartfelt condolences to the victims and their families.

Developing technological solutions to facilitate the prevention and monitoring of visual pathologies. This is the goal of Criboos Tech S.L., a new UPC spin-off born from research developed by the Centre for Sensors, Instruments and Systems...

The UPC is once again ranked among the world’s best universities in the QS World University Rankings (QS WUR), placing in the top 28% of more than 1,500 ranked institutions. By indicator, its strongest performances are in Sustainability and...