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UPC researcher Sergi Abadal Cavallé, awarded a Starting Grant

Professor and researcher Sergi Abadal, from the UPC’s Department of Computer Architecture, has won a European Research Council Starting Grant to study new ways to build faster and more efficient processors, based on wireless communications, massively parallel processing, specialised accelerators and disruptive technologies such as quantum computing.
The 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

The UPC, among the world’s top 100 in the SDGs Climate Action, Life Below Water and Life On Land

According to the THE Impact Rankings

15th best university in Architecture and the top Spanish university in seven subject areas

In the 2022 Scimago Institutions Rankings
Group photograph of Nimble Diagnostics representatives

Nimble Diagnostics is founded to monitor stents using microwave technology

An UPC, UB and IGTP spin-off
Group of scientists observing a document in a laboratory

Unite! presents a strategic roadmap to open science in the digital age

Includes ten recommendations to boost innovation

The UPC has conferred an honorary doctoral degree on MIT researcher Antonio Torralba

He is a pioneer in the research on computer vision and the application of artificial intelligence in this field
Uakari monkey on a rainforest branch

Protecting biodiversity in rainforests

A joint project by the UPC's LAB, the MIT, the Delft University of Technology and the Instituto Mamirauá 
A cruise on the sea

A negative sentiment prevails in public perception towards the cruise industry

According to a study by the URV and the UPC’s CREB
Poster with UPC letters

The UPC sets up an International Emergency Committee

The e-mail address ucrania.upc@upc.edu is at the disposal of the community
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Unite!

Unite!

Alliance from leading universities in 7 European countries in the fields of technology and engineering.


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Challenge Based Innovation

UPC, IED and ESADE students come up with solutions for climate change

Is our Sun going to die?

With Jordi José, Full Professor of Physics

Discover the UPC’s Doctoral School

Choose from among 45 PhD programmes

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The UPC today

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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
  •  317  million euros 2022 budget
  • 55  million euros R&D income
  • 69,442 alumni

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