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

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