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1 Quality, innovation, internationalisation May 2015 September 2012

2 A young university A young university A public university founded in 1990 and called to become one of the leading European universities based on its own identity founded on quality teaching, its proximity to the students, the maximum degree of internationalisation and a categorical leaning towards research and innovation

3 A quality university International Campus of Excellence awarded by the Ministry of Education (2010) Ranking Times Higher Education (2014): 1st Spanish university (position 165 worldwide and 72 in Europe) 12th highest ranked university in the world among those under 50 years of age (2015) Ranking de 2012 en producción y productividad en investigación Ranking 2012 in research production and productivity in the Spanish university public system (2013): 1st Spanish university in scientific productivity since 2010 U-Ranking (BBVA Foundation & Ivie, 2015): Most productive university in Spain Outstanding research: 46 ERC Grants (UPF Group) 1st Spanish university and in the Top 20 in Europe (ERC, 2015)

4 Facts & Figures* Facts & figures* Undergraduate students: (UPF Group: ) Official Master's students: 959 (UPF Group: 2.643) Doctoral students: UPF Master's student: Number of academic staff: 594 FTE Number of permanent professors: 339 Number of administrative and service staff: Budget: 124 M (*) academic year

5 A university that revolves around people Three areas of knowledge, closely interconnected, that place people and their relation with the polis at the centre of our university project:

6 An urban university in the heart of Barcelona Ciutadella campus: social sciences and humanities Mar campus: health and life sciences Poblenou campus: communication and information technologies

7 Ciutadella campus: social sciences and humanities

8 Ciutadella campus: degrees offered Law Bachelor s degrees Master s degrees Doctorate Criminology and Public Prevention Policies Law Labour Relations Double bachelor s degree in Law and Business Management and Administration or Economics* Advanced in Legal Studies Criminology and Criminal Justice System Professional Legal Practice (IDEC) Law Economics, finance and business Bachelor s degrees Master s degrees Business Management and Administration Business Sciences - Management Economics International Business Economics Double bachelor s degree in Law and Business Management and Administration or Economics* International Trade and Marketing (ESCI) Business Administration and Innovation Management (EUM) Tourism and Leisure Management (EUM) Research in Economics, Finance and Business Economics and Finance (Barcelona GSE) Specialized Economic Analysis (Barcelona GSE) Banking and Finance (BSM) Business and Financial Accounting Management (BSM) Health Economics and Pharmaeconomics (BSM) MSc in Sciences of Management (BSM) Entrepreneurship and Innovation (EUM) Humanities Doctorate Economics, Finance and Business Bachelor s degrees Humanities Politics and society Master s degrees Doctorate Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Thought World History Chinese Studies Literary Creation (IDEC) Humanities History * Jointly conducted by the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences Bachelor s degrees Master s degrees Doctorate Political and Administration Sciences Philosophy, Politics and Economics (A4U, UPF coord.) Current Democracies: Nationalism, Federalism and Multiculturality Sociology and Demography Research in Political Sciences Inmigration Management Political Philosophy International Relations (IBEI) Public Policy and International Development (IBEI) International Business (ESCI) Public and Social Policies (IDEC) Political and Social Sciences

9 Mar campus: health and life sciences

10 Mar campus: degrees offered offered Health and life sciences Bachelor s degrees Human Biology Medicine Nursing (Mar University School of Nursing) Master s degrees Bioinformatics for Health Sciences Pharmaceutical Industry and Biotechnology Biomedical Research Clinical Laboratory Occupational Health Public Health Doctorate Biomedicine

11 Poblenou campus: communication and information technologies

12 Poblenou campus: degrees offered Information and communication technologies Bachelor s degrees Audiovisual Systems Engineering Telematic Engineering Engineering in Computer Science Biomedical Engineering Industrial Design Engineering (Elisava) Design (Elisava) Master s degrees Doctorate Sound and Music Computing Interdisciplinary in Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media Intelligent Interactive Systems Digital Arts (IDEC) ITC Strategic Management (IDEC) Information and Communication Technologies Social communication Bachelor s degrees Audiovisual Communication Journalism Advertising and Public Relations Linguistic communication and multilingual mediation Master s degrees Doctorate Advanced Studies in Social Communication Contemporary Film and Audiovisual Studies Design and Communication (Elisava) Leadership and Management in Science and Innovation (IDEC) Communication Bachelor s degrees Applied Languages Translation and Interpretation Master s degrees Doctorate Translation Studies Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Forensic Linguistics (IDEC) Translation and Languages Sciences

13 The UPF model

14 The UPF model Quality teaching Excellence in research An international outlook

15 Quality teaching Admission Two students apply for every UPF place available ( academic year) 15% of new students finished high school with honours ( academic year) An own teaching model Highest rate of performance in the Spanish system: 90% ( academic year) 1st Spanish university in productivity in the area of teaching (BBVA Foundation & Ivie, 2014) MOOCs: partnership with Miríada X, FutureLearn Results Graduate employment rate: 83% (AQU Catalunya, 2014) One out of four graduates found a job through the university (AQU Catalunya, 2014) PhD employment rate: 96% (Analysis of the employment rate for UPF doctorates, 2012) Satisfaction rate: 90% of UPF's graduates would choose the same university again (AQU Catalunya, 2014) External reports The institutional report prepared by the European University Association (EUA, July 2008) highlights the high degree of attention to teaching quality

16 Excellence in research Quality and international impact 1st Spanish university in the normalised impact of its scientific publications (Scimago, 2014) 1st Spanish university in percentage of papers produced in collaboration with foreign institutions (Scimago, 2014) 2nd Spanish university in percentage of articles published in the most influential scholarly journals of the world, those ranked in the first quartile (Q1) (Scimago, 2014) Competitiveness 1st Spanish university in projects within the Spanish R&D National Plan (for 100 lecturers) (Granada & IUNE, 2012) 1st Spanish university in projects within the EU Programme (for 100 lecturers) (IUNE, 2012). 1st Spanish university in Starting, Advanced & Consolidator Grants funded (European Research Council, 2014) 2nd Spanish university in capacity to attract European funding in absolute terms ( ) (CDTI, 2013) Training capacity 1st Spanish university in FPU scholarships (for 100 lecturers) (Granada & IUNE, 2012) 1st Spanish university in doctoral dissertations (for 100 professors) (Granada & IUNE, 2012) 64% of doctoral dissertations were written and defended in English (2013) Eight out of nine PhD programmes have been awarded the Mention of Excellence by the Spanish ministry (2012) Recruitment and retention of talent 38 ICREA, 28 ICREA Academia, 18 Marie Curie, 18 Juan de la Cierva, 14 Ramón y Cajal, 13 CIBER, 8 Beatriu de Pinós (2014) 46 ERC grants (UPF & UPF Group) (ERC, 2015). This represents 16% of the ERC grants obtained in Spain (accumulative data ) with less than 1% of lecturers

17 Entities present UPF Research Park (1/2) Fields of knowledge: Social sciences and humanities Communication and information technologies; Health and life sciences and life (through the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park) Universitat Pompeu Fabra Dep. of Economics and Business Dep. of Law Dep. of Political and Social Sciences Dep. of Humanities Dep. of ITC Dep. of Communication Dep. of Translation and Language Sciences Jaume Vicens i Vives University Institute of History (IUHJVV) University Institute of Culture (IUC) University Institute for Applied Linguistics (IULA) Mixes research centres and institutes Research Centre for International Economics (CREI) Economy and Health Research Centre (CRES) Centre for Research on the Economies of the Mediterranean (CREMed) Barcelona Graduate School of Economics Pasqual Maragall Foundation for Research into Alzheimer s Together with the Government of Catalonia and the Barcelona City Council, UPF participates in the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), one of the largest biomedical centers in southern Europe. The park consists of independent research centers closely connected: Dep. of Experimental and Health Sciences (DCEXS) Municipal Institute of Medical Research (IMIM) Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE)(CSIC-UPF) Centre of Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona (CMRB) Hospital del Mar Research Institute Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) Occupational Health Research Centre (CISAL) Technology centres Barcelona Media Innovation Center Barcelona Digital

18 UPF Research Park (2/2) Transfer activities and relationship with the environment: To enhance transfer activities and a greater collaboration with its social and business environment, in 2011, it was launched the Almogàvers Business Factory (Almogàvers, 165) that houses the Areas of Incubation UPF Business Shuttle, that already house eight companies arising from research at the UPF. Spin off Barcelona Music & Audiovisual Technologies Reactable Systems Voctro Labs S.L. Qgenomics Logim Eodyne Systems S.L. TECNIO centers at UPF (ACC1Ó) GRIB GTI Neurophar Nets MTG BAPP Enterprises and institutions close to the park MEDIAPRO, Lavínia, Cromosoma, RBA, RNE, CAC, BTV, Media-ITC center, T- SYSTEMS, INDRA, Orange, CMT, and so on.

19 International vocation Community 36% of official master's students and 52% of doctoral students are international ( academic year) 30% of graduates have studied abroad ( academic year) 22% of UPF faculty is international (2014) 1st Spanish university in international outlook (THE, 2014) 1st Spanish university in the proportion of international faculty (QS, 2014) Projects Agreements with 27 of the Top 50 universities in the world (THE, 2013) Summer School Programme with UCLA (from summer 2012) Strategic alliances: A4U, Europaeum, YERUN and CASB (Ivy League)

20 Map of international relations CANADA British Columbia, Montreal, Toronto, Simon Fraser... USA (Ivy League) Boston College, Bentley, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Richmond, Pittsburgh, NYU, UCLA, Barnard College MEXICO Tec de Monterrey UNAM, El Colegio ARGENTINA Torcuato di Tella, Belgrano... BRAZIL Getulio Vargas, USP CHILE Diego Portales, Pontificia Católica... USA & Canada (40 universities) Latin America (64 universities) TOTAL: 350 agreements (260 concerning student exchange) Europe (203 universities) + Spain (24) Austria: Vienna Belgium: Brussels Free, Louvain Catholic... Czech Republic: Charles University in Prague Denmark: Aarhus, Copenhagen, Roskilde... Finland: Helsinki... France: ENSAE, Sciences Po, Pierre et Marie Curie, Toulouse... Germany: Berlin Free, Berlin Humboldt, Munich, Konstanz... Hungary: CEU Budapest Iceland: Reykjavik Italy: Roma III, Roma La Sapienza, Bologna, Trento, Florence Netherlands: Maastricht, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Tilburg... Norway: Oslo, Bergen Poland: Warsaw Portugal: New Lisbon Sweden: Stockholm, Linköping... Switzerland: Zurich, Geneva, Lausanne... United Kingdom: Oxford, Warwick, King s College, Saint Andrews, Essex... Asia (20 universities) Australia (4 universities) CHINA: City University and The Chinese University in Hong Kong INDIA: Indian Institute of Foreign Trade JAPAN: TUFS, Keio KOREA: Seoul National, Korea University SINGAPORE: Singapore Management University THAILAND Chulalongkorn AUSTRALIA Adelaide, New South Wales, Queensland, Sydney Technology

21 Strategic alliances Oxford, Leiden, Bologna, Bonn, París 1 Panteón-Sorbona, Carlova de Praga, Helsinki, Jagiellonian de Cracovia Autónoma de Madrid Autònoma de Barcelona Carlos III de Madrid Pompeu Fabra Brown Chicago Northwestern Stanford Columbia Cornell Harvard Barcelona Autònoma de Barcelona Pompeu Fabra YERUN Young European Research Universities Network A4U, Bremen, Konstanz, Ulm, Antwerpen, Southern Denmark, Eastern Finland, Paris Dauphine, Dublin City University, Roma Tor Vergata, Maastricht, Nova de Lisboa, Brunel, Essex, Linköping

22 UPF Group UPF Group Barcelona GSE, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics BMAT, Barcelona Music & Audio Technologies BSM, Barcelona School of Management CREAL, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology CREI, Research Centre for International Economics CRES, Centre for Research in Health and Economics CRG, Centre for Genomic Regulation Elisava School of Design ESCI, School of International Trade EUIM, Mar University School of Nursing EUM, Maresme University School of Business Studies IBE, Institute of Evolutionary Biology IBEI, Barcelona Institute of International Studies IDEC, Continuing Education Institute IMIM, Municipal Institute of Medical Research

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