UPC Orientation Week for international exchange and master's degree students: September'2024

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 2024-2025 autumn semester. (The semester that starts in September' 2024.)

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

• In July-August: 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 and EEBE schools do not have 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.
  (Note: two of the face-to-face sessions will have a different schedule, due to organizational reasons, but the content is the same. They are marked with an asterisk in the list of dates.)
  
  The dates of the face-to-face OW sessions will be:
  - September 3rd
  - September 5th*  (with the workshop about Catalan language and culture in the early afternoon)
  - September 6th  
  - September 9th*  (with the workshop about Catalan language and culture on September 10th, in the morning)
  - September 13th
  - September 17th 
  --> - September 27th
  
  UPC international students will receive an email in August, 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 in August, and attend to it in September!
  (Select your OW session according to your arrival date in Spain.)

  Note: In case that on 16/08 you have not received an email with a link to register for an presential OW session, you can contact us at: oficina.mobilitat.internacional@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.
• Students will receive in their e-mail the links to attend the sessions. If on 17/07 you had not received that e-mail, then please write to: oficina.mobilitat.internacional@upc.edu
• The sessions will be recorded. An e-mail will be sent to the students on 25/07, with the links to the recordings.

 We wish you an intesting and happy stay!