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The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. BarcelonaTech (UPC) keeps the 1st position in Catalunya and reaches the 1st position in Spain and the 4th in Europe according to the world university ranking produced by the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC).

The Board of Governors has approved the set up of the UPC Doctorate School to increase the visibility of these studies and thus contribute to make them more professional. This agreement strengthens the approach initiated with the pilot experience conducted at the University in 2009-2010.

A student team from KIC InnoEnergy has been accepted and will compete in the 3rd Annual Hult Global Case Challenge (Hult GCC), an initiative that brings together top students from all over the globe to generate solutions to the world's most pressing social challenges.

The university launches this year the contest focused on the topic "RIO+20: REINFORCE THE COMMITMENT WITH SUSTAINABILITY"

The UPC.BarcelonaTech is the spanish university with the most Erasmuns Mundus Joint Doctorates (EMJDs), the EU programme aimed at enhancing the quality of higher education and promote mobility and academic cooperation.

Solar Endeavour is one of the projects selected by the jury of the second round of Ecotendències Cosmocaixa dedicated to the aerospace sector.

In order to award the best entrepreneurial project developed by vocational training students (advanced level) in the city of Barcelona, ​​the Fundació BCN FP launches the 3rd edition of the FPEMPRÈN prize, which this year includes the special category Energy Campus.

The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.BarcelonaTech (UPC), the Catalan Women Institute, the Education Department and the Cornellà de Llobregat City Council have launched a project called "The Future is Female", where students from technical degrees and training cycles mentor or guide students from secondary school and vocational training.