One of UPF’s founding characteristics is its respect for and devotion to cultural values and humanism. This distinctive trait, which has been nurtured and strengthened by each new governing team, has naturally given rise to the ambitious UPF Culture Programme, which includes the impressive historical heritage accumulated to date and adds a new twist to further promote it amongst the university community.

Committed to social transformation beyond the university’s walls, the programme is a project created from, by and for the university community that also reaches out to the wider world. One of its goal is to build a network of joint efforts with other institutions, bodies, companies and individual movements to create and promote culture. Ultimately, it seeks to make UPF a porous institution, capable of letting the creative gene in and out with total freedom, wherever it may come from.

Teaching, research and knowledge transfer are the three paradigmatic missions of any university. UPF has added the cultivation of culture and humanism as a distinctive trait, according to a holistic vision that permeates all the institution’s component elements.

Teaching, research and knowledge transfer are the three paradigmatic missions of any university. UPF has added the cultivation of culture and humanism as a distinctive trait, according to a holistic vision that permeates all the institution’s component elements. As proof of the importance it places on this goal, for the first time, the word culture will appear in the name of one of the university’s vice-rector’s offices, an unequivocal sign of the prominent profile the university wishes to give it.

Eminently eclectic, in terms of both the formats and the artists behind the actions and the audiences they target, the programme showcases the university’s value as a living and active institution. The UPF Art Track tour of the Ciutadella campus’s artistic and cultural heritage, the collection of literary classics presented to the community each year at Christmas, or the performances of the various Performing Arts Workshop groups – Theatre, Choir and Chamber Orchestra – are just some of the emblematic elements that, together with the new proposals, make up the UPF cultural map. A dynamic and constantly evolving map that is drawn through the participation of the university community, its talents and the human heritage that composes it.