Pompeu Fabra University

Pompeu Fabra University or Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) - public higher education institution in Spain.

Pompeu Fabra University - Description

UPF is a young, public and modern university founded in 1990 and called to become one of the leading European universities. Awarded with a CEI label (International Excellence Campus) by the Spanish Ministry of Education, UPF's indicators have made it a benchmark for the Spanish and European university systems. In recent years, the University has begun to figure prominently in some prestigious international rankings. Moreover, in order to promote research and transfer activities undertaken by university researchers and provide them with greater international visibility, the University is developing the UPF Research Park in the fields of social sciences, humanities, communication and information technologies. The UPF Research Park, which develops its activity at Ciutadella and Poblenou campuses, coordinates its activities in the fields of health and life sciences with the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, located on the Mar campus. UPF is committed to offering a high-quality teaching model and outstanding research with international projection, the three axis of the UPF model. Pompeu Fabra University was founded in 1990 by the Autonomous Government of Catalonia. Its headquarters are in Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, and the essential aims of this institution are based on training good professionals and contributing to conducting research. Since its foundation, the University has consolidated its teaching and research project and has achieved a high return from resources society has placed at its disposal. On-going educational and technological innovation and improvement, high academic performance of its students, a high level of employability of its graduates and a high rate of internationalisation and good positioning of the University within the scope of research are only some of the aspects that have contributed to the high prestige the institution has managed to achieve. The UPF offers all-round training by applying a strict teaching model of high-quality and excellence. The UPF teaching work is focussed on the fields of social sciences and humanities, health and life sciences and communication and information technology. This became a reality in the 2011-2012 academic year with an offer of 21 graduate degrees, 27 official master degrees, 9 doctorate programs and 379 further education programs. UPF is a young, public and modern university founded in 1990 and called to become one of the leading European universities. Awarded with a CEI label (International Excellence Campus) by the Spanish Ministry of Education, UPF's indicators have made it a benchmark for the Spanish and European university systems. In recent years, the University has begun to figure prominently in some prestigious international rankings. UPF structures its studies on three main fields of knowledge, closely interconnected and structured on three campuses: Social sciences and humanities, Ciutadella campus Health and life sciences, Mar campus Communication and information technologies, Communication campus Moreover, in order to promote research and transfer activities undertaken by university researchers and provide them with greater international visibility, the University is developing the UPF Research Park in the fields of social sciences, humanities, communication and information technologies. The UPF Research Park, which develops its activity at Ciutadella and Poblenou campuses, coordinates its activities in the fields of health and life sciences with the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, located on the Mar campus. The UPF is set to become one of the leading European universities, developing its own identity model based on quality teaching, proximity to students, maximum internationalisation and an emphatic orientation towards research and innovation. The three areas in which it specialises –social sciences and humanities, biomedical sciences and information and communication sciences and technologies - place the person and their relation to the polis at the very centre of the University’s project. To position the University as a research institution with a clear vocation for international excellence that will enable it to capture and retain talent, and re-assert its present position by improving its research infrastructures. To consolidate the current teaching model in keeping with the European educational framework, with an innovative, high-quality teaching learning model that will ensure the solidity and competitiveness of all the teaching offered by the UPF, with special emphasis on the creation of the support systems best suited to each context. To plan and develop teaching and research with a view to favouring innovation and strengthening knowledge transfer to society in co-ordination with the social and business actors comprising the University’s environment. To design an overall strategy allowing the University as a whole to attain theinternational presence, structure and dimension befitting the quality of its teaching and research. To strengthen an institutional structure that will facilitate the attainment of the UPF25 YEARS strategy’s goals by reviewing the state of the internal governance and organisation of the UPF Group, adapting its management instruments and promoting greater cohesion of the university community. To define a sustainable and more diversified funding model.