About the organization
UPF was founded in 1990 by the Catalan government with the aim of creating a public university focused on academic excellence and contributing to the country’s development. To achieve this goal, over the years, UPF has carried out all of its activities in accordance with strict quality criteria and has created a model of an urban university that is intimately linked to the city of Barcelona. As a university, they have been selective in the areas of knowledge that they have focused on in order to specialize primarily in research and training related to the various dimensions of the human being, including biology, communication and social phenomena. The university's relatively small size, which have been maintained despite some growth, has emerged as one of the university's defining traits, and an eminently positive one at that, as it has allowed it to preserve the ideal size for the formation of a cohesive academic community, in which academic and administrative units have a sense of belonging to the same institution and of sharing the same values.