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Japan hosts a traveling exhibition about Gaudí featuring items from the UPC’s Barcelona School of Architecture
The UPC's Barcelona School of Architecture presents 13 works from the Gaudí Chair collection in an exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. The exhibition will move on to two other Japanese museums until March 2024. -
Summer courses are back
Different summer activities for UPC students. Check out the full schedule. -
The UPC is among the world’s top 50 in the SDG Climate Action, according to the THE Impact Rankings
In the latest edition of the THE Impact Rankings—which assess the impact of universities in achieving the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—the UPC is ranked the world’s 38th in Climate Action (SDG 13), climbing 33 positions... -
The UPC is the leader in teaching, research and innovation and graduate employment according to the 2023 U-Ranking
In the latest edition of the U-Ranking the UPC appears as the top-ranked Spanish university in the overall classification. The University is also ranked 1st in teaching and 2nd in research and innovation. Additionally, it boasts one of the highest... -
Semiconductors, at the heart of technology
The semiconductor ecosystem in Catalonia, a sector that is in a phase of development, comprises around a hundred companies and research entities and some 4,400 professionals. Companies such as Cisco, Monolithic Power Systems (MPS) and Intel have... -
The UPC is one of the universities with the highest graduate employment rate in Spain according to the U-Ranking
Developed by the BBVA Foundation and the Valencian Institute of Economic Research, the U-Ranking project published an analysis of graduate employment in the Spanish university system by degree subject area and by university on 16 May. The UPC is... -
A total of 117 UPC researchers in the CSIC ranking of the most outstanding female scientists
117 UPC researchers are listed in the second edition of the CSIC ranking of Spanish and foreign female scientists who conduct research in Spain. The ranking classifies female scientists with an h-index equal to or greater than 18. -
Mark Coeckelberg: “We should not be afraid of AI, but we should be afraid of authoritarianism and totalitarianism.”
Mark Coeckelbergh is a full professor of Philosophy of Media and Technology at the University of Vienna and an ERA Chair at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He delivered a lecture at the UPC on 24 May, invited... -
New generation of antibacterial materials for medical implants developed
The UPC’s Biomaterials, Biomechanics and Tissue Engineering Group (BBT) leads the international project Bio-TUNE, which aims to develop multifunctional materials with high antibacterial potential and efficient tissue integration. The consortium is... -
The UPC, leader in Knowledge Transfer and Regional Engagement in the latest edition of the CYD Ranking
In the 2023 edition of the CYD Ranking, the UPC is once again the top Spanish university in Knowledge Transfer. It also shares the top position in Regional Engagement and achieves outstanding results in International Orientation. In the ranking by... -
The new mission and vision of the UPC approved
The UPC’s Governing Council approved the new mission and vision of the UPC after a period of collective reflection and internal work. It is the first stage of the Galàxia Aprenentatge project, which aims to transform the learning experience at the... -
Saurabh Bharat Nagarkar, a student on the master’s degree in AI at the UPC, wins the Unite! Video Contest
Master’s degree student Saurabh Bharat Nagarkar is one of 20 UPC students who will participate in the Unite! Students Festival in Lisbon from 29 June to 1 July. He has won the Unite! Video Contest at the UPC, a competition of the Multilingual and... -
Urgent International Call for Action to Reduce Human Noise in the Ocean
Today, 8 June, on the occasion of World Oceans Day, international scientists are making an urgent call to reduce noise pollution at sea and safeguard marine ecosystems. In the following communication, they entreat governments around the world to act... -
New light shed on the development of quantum technologies
Using quantum gas as a coolant sheds new light on the development of future quantum technologies. This is demonstrated by a team of international scientists—including researcher Grigori Astrakharchik, from the UPC’s Department of Physics—who have... -
The BSC and the UPC develop an AI tool to improve deaf people’s accessibility to technology
It is an AI tool to convert sign language sentences recorded on video into spoken language in text format. To this end, the researchers have combined computer vision, natural language processing and machine learning techniques. -
A study demonstrates that heat can freeze fluids in the quantum world
An international research team has discovered that increasing the temperature of an ultracold fluid can trigger its phase transition to a solid state. The study was recently published in Nature Communication, with UPC researcher Juan Sánchez Baena... -
The ACTRIS ERIC platform, of which the UPC is a member, becomes a European infrastructure for atmospheric research
The European Commission has decided to establish ACTRIS, a research infrastructure that studies the short-lived atmospheric components, as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium. Published on 3 April, the decision places the participating... -
900 students from all over the world will participate in the 2023 HackUPC to solve technological challenges in 36 hours
From 12 to 14 May, the UPC’s North Campus will host the 2023 HackUPC, a programming contest in which student teams from all over the world will develop technological projects to respond to challenges posed by companies. 900 participants or ‘hackers’... -
A low-cost robotic arm created by students as an alternative to conventional prostheses
The ARM2u biomedical engineering team, from the UPC’s Barcelona School of Industrial Engineering (ETSEIB), is working on new functions for their low-cost 3D-printed transradial prosthesis. In addition to developing technology to control the... -
The number of summer days in Spain has increased from 90 to 145 in the last 50 years, according to a study by the UPC
The average temperature in the main Spanish cities has risen by 3.54 °C between 1971 and 2022. The country is among those with the most pronounced climatic anomalies in the world. Over the last 50 years, summer days have increased from 90 to 145,... -
The UPC among the world’s top 25 in Architecture and the world’s top 35 in Civil and Structural Engineering according to the QS WUR by Subject
In the new edition of the QS Word University Rankings by Subject, the UPC is ranked the world’s 22nd in Architecture and Built Environment, and 35th in Civil and Structural Engineering. It is also Spain’s leader in both subjects. The ranking, which... -
A pioneering open-source platform for the next generation of cloud applications
The UPC’s Department of Computer Architecture coordinates the European project Vitamin-V, which develops a complete set of hardware-software for cloud services, based on pioneering open-source technologies for RISC-V processors. -
UPC researchers design a device to harvest hydroelectric energy from water flowing in pipes
The UPC’s Barcelona Fluids & Energy Lab and the Centre for Technological Innovation in Static Converters and Drives participate in the European project H-HOPE, focused on developing solutions to harvest green energy from as yet untapped water... -
Neutron star that behaves like a black hole discovered
An international scientific team including researcher Yuri Cavecchi, from the UPC’s Department of Physics, and led by the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands has found a neutron star that captures matter from a companion star in a... -
Researcher Justin Zoppe wins an ERC Consolidator Grant to develop new chiral metamaterials
The European Research Council has awarded a Consolidator Grant to UPC researcher Justin Zoppe from the Materials Science and Engineering Department to develop new metamaterials for detecting molecular chirality. The researcher will receive funding... -
The UPC participates in a marine regeneration project with industrial waste
The Technological Development Centre for Remote Acquisition and Data Processing Systems (SARTI)—affiliated with the UPC’s EPSEVG —participates in the SEASLAG project, which will provide solutions to fight marine biodiversity loss by developing a new... -
The UPC is Spain’s top university in raising funds for European research and innovation projects
The UPC is Spain’s top university in raising Horizon Europe funds for research and innovation projects in 2021-2022, having raised 42 million euros for 66 projects already signed. It is also Spain’s third organisation, behind the Spanish National... -
ESA BIC Barcelona issues a call to incubate aerospace start-ups
The ESA BIC Barcelona incubation centre has started operating on the UPC’s Baix Llobregat Campus with a call for space technology and infrastructure start-ups. Promoted by the UPC, the Mediterranean Technology Park and the Government of Catalonia as... -
The UPC joins the EIT Manufacturing knowledge and innovation community
The UPC has joined EIT Manufacturing, Europe’s largest manufacturing innovation network. Promoted by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), it pursues the digitalisation of industry in the context of circular economy. -
International scientists warn of the serious impact of noise pollution on marine invertebrates
An international scientific study, led by the UPC’s Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics (LAB), shows that noise from human operations at sea damages marine invertebrates and ocean ecosystems. Published in Frontiers in Marine Science, the work points...