The UPC takes center stage in a week of intense activity at Tongji's Sino-Spanish Campus

Between June 5th and 8th, the 14th International Student Conference on Environment and Sustainability (ISCES) and the Global Environment Solutions Challenge (GESC) were held at Tongji University. Professor Júlia Beltran Borràs from the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB), and UPC's Delegate to Tongji's Sino-Spanish Campus, participated as a jury member in the competition.

Concurrently, from June 2nd to 8th, the Tongji International Construction Festival 2025 took place, organized by the College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP) of Tongji University. A team of first-year students from the ETSAB's Bachelor's Degree in Architectural Studies won third prize.

CAUP invited several international architecture schools, including ETSAB, to participate with a team consisting of one professor-tutor and six first-year students.

The team traveled to Shanghai and for a week worked on the design and construction of a small pavilion made exclusively from polypropylene sheets on the university campus itself.

The Sino-Spanish Campus

The Sino-Spanish Campus, established in 2012, is a platform for academic, research, and innovation cooperation between China, Spain, and Latin America, based on openness, tolerance, mutually beneficial collaboration, and shared principles. It is comprised of universities that excel in applying technology to social challenges in China and the Spanish-speaking world.

Its current members are Tongji University, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey and Universidad de Sevilla.

The mission of the Sino-Spanish Campus is to develop a platform for academic, research, and innovation cooperation between China, Spain, and Latin America, based on openness, tolerance, mutually beneficial collaboration, and shared principles. Its objective is to become a key player in cultural, educational, scientific, and technological exchanges between China, Spain, and Latin America, as well as to promote the progress of its members.

The S-SC is headquartered at Tongji University, Shanghai (China), where its facilities support S-SC activities. These activities include a student exchange program, double degree agreements, joint research projects, short stays for researchers, the organization of academic, scientific, and innovation events, and a startup incubator, among others.

These activities include the two-week summer course at Tongji University, which starts next June 23rd, where about seventy UPC students will participate.