UPC Orientation Week for international exchange and master's degree students: September'2025

Important note: The OW activities will take place in a BLENDED format
(it is, with activities both online and in person, on campus).

Introduction

The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC) organises different online sessions as a kind of "Orientation Week" (OW). The OW is basically addressed to international students who have to start their studies at the UPC in the 2025-2026 autumn semester. (The semester that starts in September' 2025.)

The OW includes an institutional welcome, information on compulsory legal procedures, and information about the main UPC services that can be of interest of the students during their stay, and an introductory workshop on Catalan language and culture.

Orientation Week dates

• E-mail informations and online sessions, in July: students will receive progressively e-mails with links to online information to prepare their trip, arrival and stay. In addition, there is a set of online sessions about different topics.
  Students will receive directly in their email a message  with the links to attend the online sessions.
• September: presential (face-to-face, on campus) activities.
  Students from ETSEIB school do not need to attend these OW sessions, as they have their own welcome week at their school.
  There will be face-to-face OW sessions on different dates. The sessions will be the same, so students can select ONE session; the session that suits them best, depending on their arrival date and the date in which they start their classes.
  
  The dates of the face-to-face OW sessions will take place in the following dates:
  
  

  Day	Date	Language of the session
  Monday	September 1st	ENGLISH
  Tuesday	September 2nd, morning	Spanish
  Tuesday	September 2nd, afternoon	ENGLISH
  Monday	September 8th	ENGLISH
  Tuesday	September 9th	Spanish
  Friday	September 12th	ENGLISH
  Monday	September 15th	Spanish
  Tuesday	September 16th	ENGLISH
  Thursday	September 18th	ENGLISH
  Monday	September 22nd	Spanish

  The provisional programme of the sessions can be found in this link.
  UPC international students will receive an email in July, to register for the session that best suits them.

  We strongly recommend attending one of the face-to-face sessions upon arrival in Spain.
  Choose one presential OW session, register, and attend to it!
  (Select your OW session according to your arrival date in Spain.)

  Note: In case that on 28/07 you have not received an email with a link to register for an presential OW session, you can contact us at: international @ upc.edu

Cost

Language

The activities will be organised and held in English and Spanish.

"Welcome folder"- carpeta de bienvenida

In this link you will find the web page with the "welcome folder". This web page contains different reference materials that will be of use and of your interest for your stay. Please, explore it and read the documents linked in that web page.

Online information sessions

 The information and links to attend will be sent by e-mail to international students.

Online information sessions :

Notes:

• All hours indicated are with Spanish time zone (CET).
• Students will receive in their e-mail the links to attend the sessions. If on 15/07 you had not received that e-mail, then please write to: international @ upc.edu
• The sessions will be recorded. An e-mail will be sent to the students after all the online sessions are finished, on 29/07, with the links to the recordings.

 We wish you an intesting and happy stay!