2022-2025 UPC Language Plan

Supervision: Office of the Vice-Rector for Quality and Language Policy
Technical coordination: Language and Terminology Service
Language policy decisions
Language Plan framework: areas, aims, values
Results: actions and main indicators

Language policy decisions

Governing Council decisions proposed by the Language Policy Committee

The Governing Council's Language Policy Committee was set up in Decision CG/2021/04/07

Framework of the 2022–2025 UPC Language Plan, Decision CG/2022/02/33
Protocol for Managing Languages in the Classroom, Decision CG/2022/02/32
Regulations on UPC teaching and research staff accrediting knowledge of the Catalan language, Decision CG/2023/03/09
Plan for Increasing Teaching in Catalan at the UPC (UPC PIDOC), Decision CG/2024/1/16
Protocol for Using Languages in UPC Software, Decision CG/2024/03/21

University system decisions

UPC Language Plan framework

The framework of the UPC Language Plan was approved in Decision CG/2022/02/33, of 22 February 2022. It defines 4 areas and 12 strategic objectives, which must be deployed in actions.

Use of languages

1. Use of Catalan: to strengthen the use of Catalan in areas such as teaching and other academic activities, research, knowledge transfer, administration and institutional uses.

2. Use of English: to extend the use of English, particularly in areas such as course offerings.

3. Language safety: to guarantee the principles of language transparency and safety in the use of languages in teaching and the language rights of members of the community.

Knowledge of languages

4. Knowledge of Catalan: to guarantee sufficient knowledge of Catalan and the certification of the language level required of staff groups, in accordance with the legal framework.

5. Knowledge of English: to increase knowledge of English among members of the community and guarantee the certification of this knowledge, in accordance with the established regulations.

6. Effective communication: to promote the improvement of staff members’ communication skills and students’ acquisition of communication skills and the effective communication competency.

Reception and interculturality

7. Cultural and language reception: to make cultural and language reception programmes for international students and other international groups universal.

8. Intercultural activities: to extend the mentoring programme and intercultural activities that foster interaction between local and international students.

9. Intercultural competency: to promote the development of the intercultural competency of members of the community.

Language quality

10. Language support services: to agree on services and circuits to ensure the quality of multilingual communications and lend support to members of the community.

11. Language support resources: to agree on the criteria of the UPC style guide and make multilingual resources available to lend support to members of the community.

12. Multilingual terminology: to produce multilingual terminology in the UPC’s areas of knowledge and contribute to the production and dissemination of technical and scientific terminology in Catalan.

Values and principles

Auto-centred multilingualism.
Commitment to Catalan as the language specific to Catalonia.
Functional distribution of languages.
Promotion of internationalisation and English.
Language transparency and safety in the use of languages in teaching.
Respect for language rights.
Value of knowledge of languages.
Value of language quality.
Cultural and language reception of international students.
Fostering of intercultural and effective communication competencies.
Commitment to inclusion.
Cross-disciplinarity and collaboration with internal agents.
Interuniversity work and alliances with external agents.