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Country: Spain

City: Barcelona

WWW: www.upc.es

Type of school: Public Universities

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The Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) is a public institution dedicated to higher education and research that specializes in the fields of architecture, science and engineering. Our schools and research centers are known, nationally and internationally, for the education and training of professionals and for research in these areas.

Our university is forward-looking and seeks to teach high quality technical courses that are responsive to the training needs and requirements of traditional, evolving and newly-developing production sectors, including aeronautics, photonics, supercomputing, bioengineering, water and energy, all within the scope of the European Higher Education and Research Areas.

We are fully engaged in the country's technological progress; the quality of our research is recognized world-wide. This in turn informs the education and training of researchers who will be capable of facing future technological challenges. Our substantial capacity for technology transfer assures that the knowledge and research that we generate has a real-world impact in terms of innovation and technological development, especially in Catalonia, Spain and Europe.

We are a public university having an international profile. We seek to reaffirm our social commitment to the surrounding area and endorse values of solidarity, cooperation, sustainability, equity and respect towards all people.

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Barcelona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain. It is located on the Mediterranean coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Bes?s and is limited to the west by the Serra de Collserola ridge.

The foundation of Barcelona is the subject of two different legends. The first attributes the founding of the city to Hercules 400 years before the building of Rome and that it was rebuilt by the Carthaginian Hamilcar Barca, father of Hannibal, who named the city Barcino after his family, in the 3rd century BC. The second legend attributes the foundation directly to Hamilcar Barca.

Barcelona has a well-developed higher education system of public universities. Most prominent among these is the University of Barcelona, a world-renowned research and teaching institution with campuses around the city. Barcelona is also home to the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the newer Pompeu Fabra University and, in the private sector, the Ramon Llull University encompassing internationally renowned institutions like IESE Business School and ESADE Business School. The Autonomous University of Barcelona, another public university, is located in Bellaterra, a town in the Metropolitan Area.

Barcelona has many venues for live music and theatre, including the world-renowned Gran Teatre del Liceu opera theatre, the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, the Teatre Lliure and the Palau de la Música Catalana concert hall. Barcelona also is home to the Sónar Music Festival which takes place around June every year, and to the Barcelona and Catalonia National Symphonic Orchestra (Orquestra Simf?nica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, usually known as OBC) is the largest symphonic orchestra in Catalonia.

Detailed information regarding the recruitment process at the Faculties of the Technical University of Catalonya can be found University web site http://www.upc.edu/the-upc/international-relations

Contact details

Address:Jordi Girona 31

08034 Barcelona

Country:Spain

Phone:+34 934 016 200

WWW:www.upc.es