Francesc Solé Parellada, Paco, as his friends called him, left a void in the Catalan and Spanish academic, business, and gastronomic world on June 19th.A legacy that was evident this Wednesday at the tribute to his life organized by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and the CYD Foundation – a foundation dedicated to promoting and analyzing the Spanish university system, co-founded in 2002 by Solé – where more than one hundred people attended, including his personal friends. The president of Banco Santander and president of the Knowledge and Development Foundation (CYD), Ana Botín, was in charge of the closing remarks. The banker met Solé in 2002, when, together with Francesc Santacana, they proposed the idea for what is now the Foundation. She was amazed and quickly convinced: "Paco managed to be a bridge between very different fields that initially didn't understand each other, such as business and universities, or innovation and culture," Botín emphasized.

At the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, they do not recall any ovation as long as the one received by Oriol Vinyals (Sabadell, 1983) when he was awarded a doctorate at the end of November. honorary causeMinutes and minutes of standing ovation followed to honor the alumnus of the double degree program in telecommunications engineering and mathematics who has made crucial contributions to the development of artificial intelligence. In fact, he is among the top 10 most cited AI researchers in the world.

The lack of housing is a major concern for a large part of the population. It's a topic of much discussion, but often concepts and even vested interests are conflated. In response to all this debate, a study by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) aims to debunk some of the most widespread theories after comparing them with data.

Today the world of mathematics and its teaching has suffered a devastating blow. The death of Claudi Alsina leaves an immense void, one that is difficult to fill.

A twist at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). After it was announced a year and a half ago that The UPC will launch a faculty and a degree in medicine next year., now the university has taken a step back and wants more time to launch these studies. As has been advanced The Country And the ARA has confirmed that the UPC has decided to postpone the launch of the degree in medicine until at least the 2027-2028 academic year.

Francesc Torres (Ibiza, 1962) is a professor and telecommunications engineer. He was rector of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) from 2017 to 2021. He is now serving again and speaks to ARA in his first interview since winning the rectorship elections a month ago.

Professor Francesc Torres Torres will once again be rector of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). Torres was elected with 53.28% of the vote in the elections held this Friday. Torres will thus succeed Daniel Crespo, who held the position since June 2021 and obtained 36.16% of the vote.

The Spanish and Portuguese governments, the National Court, the European Commission, the Competition Authority and the European network of electric transport managers They have already launched investigations to clarify what happened on Monday, when the entire Iberian Peninsula suddenly lost power. For now, everyone agrees that time will be needed to gather data, analyze the events, and understand why the Spanish electricity system went down so massively and unexpectedly. The blackout has once again brought the ideological debate between nuclear and renewable energy to the forefront, but—beyond lobbying interests and political discourse—there are technical reasons that point to the possible causes of such a collapse.

She never saw him as "dangerous." He was a classmate, six years older, peculiar, but she couldn't have guessed what would eventually happen. Joana—a fictitious name to protect the victim's identity—was sexually assaulted when she was 19 by a classmate at the UPC. GS ended up reporting him, and is now awaiting trial. The Prosecutor's Office is seeking two years in prison for the alleged perpetrator of the assault. During the trial, Joana felt that her university was failing her.

Next year, a new path to obtaining a vocational training (VT) qualification will be available in Catalonia. This Tuesday, the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and the Department of Education agreed to launch a new training path at the UPC's Martorell VT center (FPCAT-UPC Campus for Sustainable Mobility) that will allow students to obtain a technical or higher technical qualification through professional certificates.

"We are in a complicated maintenance situation and we need a space to be able to transfer the activity." This is how the rector of the UPC, Daniel Crespo, has justified one of the major projects of his mandate, which ends this very 2025: the new building on the Diagonal Sud Campus. The L tower will be the new building for the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Industrial (ETSEIB), it will have 9 floors and, in principle, will be a reality within three years. "We believe it will be ready at the end of 2027 or beginning of 2028," he explained.