La Benvinguda, UPF’s new welcome programme, provides new undergraduate students with a softer landing at the university
It marks the first time a Catalan university has dedicated an entire week to welcoming new students. Held the week before the official start of the university’s academic year, from 15 to 23 September, the initiative offered participants an extensive selection of academic, social and leisure activities.
Ricard Solé: ‘We have a time window of thirty years to prevent the planet from reaching a level of warming beyond our control that would spell the end of civilisation’
ICREA research professor at Pompeu Fabra University and director of the Laboratory of Complex Systems at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology
‘Networking is very important, and UPF Alumni chapters can help build this network globally’
Patricia Puentes is an Audiovisual Communication alumna. She is a film and television critic who has been living in California for 16 years. Together with Marta Gené, she is the driving force behind UPF Alumni’s international chapter in California.