Program

Events are open to anyone who is interested, as long as they sign up in advance.

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Activities by campus

 
Ciutadella
 
Poblenou
 
Mar

7th November

10am-12pm

UPF INNOValora
Poblenou Campus
Conference Hall 55.309 (Tànger building)

 

Presentation of the INNOValora funding and support program for UPF research groups for the development of innovative technologies that can benefit society.

Speech from Eulàlia de Nadal, Vice-rector for Knowledge Transfer, and Ana Sagardoy, Head of the Innovation Unit - UPF Business Shuttle. Presentation of award-winning projects of 2021 and the 2021 Board of Trustees Prize award by the board's president, Montserrat Vendrell.

Launch of the 2022 call for applications

(Session mainly in English)

12pm-3pm

HUAWEI-UPF Hackathon for a Better University
Poblenou Campus
Aranyó Hall

 

Different student teams will consider challenges related to the sustainable development objectives (ODS), university campuses and university life. The students will receive specific training from Huawei, the collaborating tech company, and will carry out a series of exercises to help them creatively implement solutions to the challenges set. At the end of the day the best proposed solution will be chosen.

8th November

10am-11.30am

PUBLIC-PRIVATE COLLABORATION OPPORTUNITIES
Mar Campus
PRBB Auditorium

Event chaired by Ana Sagardoy, Head of the Innovation Unit - UPF Business Shuttle, featuring financing bodies for public-private research and innovation projects. They will explain the application processes and support programmes for collaborative R+D projects.

 

AEI grants for public-private collaboration projects 2022

María Ángeles Ferré, Head of the Scientific-Technical Area Subdivision of the National Research Agency (AEI)

 

CDTI financing instruments: cooperative R+D projects and NEOTEC

Emilio Iglesias Cadarso, Head of Department, Department for Institutional Promotion and Territorial Cooperation at CDTI.

 

ACCIÓ - R+D Business nuclei and start-up capital

Sandra Colom, Leader of the R+D and Innovation Resources Team.

Jesús Murillo, Transfer and Technology Manager

 

To follow, coffee will be provided and there will be opportunities to network.

12pm-1.30pm

THE IMPORTANCE OF COMPANY CHAIRS
Mar Campus
PRBB Auditorium

 

Round table discussion led by Mònica Terribas, lecturer from the Department of Communication, with representatives from the business world who will discuss the importance of company chairs in the context of university-business relations.

With the participation of:

 

IDEOGRAMA. Ideograma-UPF Chair in Political Communication and Democracy

ESTATE AGENTS' ASSOCIATION OF CATALONIA. API-UPF Chair in Real Estate Innovation and UPF Alumni

TELEFÓNICA MOBILE PHONES SPAIN. Chair in Cognitive IoT

ALMIRALL LABORATORIES. Chair in Pharmaceutical Policy Innovation Management in the National Health System

AGBAR. Chair in Institutional Communication and Sustainable Development

1.30pm-3pm

Networking LUNCH
Mar Campus
PRBB interior courtyard

 

Time to allow for networking and dialogue between companies-institutions and academic managers and research staff at UPF.

 
3pm-5pm

ENTREPRENEURSHIP AT UPF: EXPERIENCES AND AWARDS
Mar Campus
Marie Curie Hall (PRBB)

 

Round table discussion chaired by Albert Domingo, Entrepreneurship Manager at UPF. Different people who have taken part in entrepreneurship programmes at UPF will talk about their experiences, setting up a business and the need for investment.

Jordi Mill - VirTest project. First edition of the Start-UPFlama programme

Marina Sánchez - UBRA project. Explorer programme

Anna Giralt - Gusano Films. Residency project in the Tallers area, also under development at UPF-Almogàvers

Presentation of the UPF Start-UP Hallmark which recognises innovative companies created by entrepreneurial UPF students and alumni.

(Session mainly in English)

9th November

10am-5pm

UPFeina
Ciutadella Campus
Roger de Llúria courtyard and auditorium entrance hall.

 

18th edition of the UPF Careers Fair.

From 17th October onwards the pre-fair will get started online: presentations and highlighted opportunities from participating companies and institutions will be on the Campus Treball.

The fair will be held (in person) on 9th November featuring: a networking space with around sixty participants and students and alumni, and fast face-to-face interviews throughout the day (speed interviews).

5pm-6pm

WESTFIELD GLÒRIES PRIZE
Ciutadella Campus
Sala polivalent de Mercè Rodoreda

 

Awards of the second edition of the Westfield Glòries Prize, aimed at UPF students in order to generate creative, impactful, innovative ideas for the commerce of the future.

With the participation of:

Jaime Tamayo, Director of Westfield Glòries Shopping Centre

Helena Ramalhinho, Delegate of Knowledge Transfer in Social Sciences and Humanities at UPF

Teresa Monllau, Lecturer from the Department of Economics and Business

10th November

3pm-5pm

INDUSTRIAL DOCTORATES
Ciutadella Campus
Mercè Rodoreda Hall

 

Round table discussion highlighting the characteristics and the reach of the Industrial Doctorates Programme. A range of experiences will be recounted, from the point of view of companies and doctorate students at UPF, as examples of collaborative research development with positive impacts on society.

Chaired by Ruth Rodríguez, Lecturer from UPF's Department of Communication and with the participation of:


Albert Sangrà, Head of the Catalan government's Industrial Doctorates Plan

Joan Rigat, ACC1Ó's R+D and Innovation Programmes and Resources Manager

Mirella López, UPF Doctor specialising in Industrial Doctorates

Irene Escolar Haro, Manager of Operations a Acellera Labs SL

Carles Pont, Doctoral Thesis Director specialising in Industrial Doctorates

11th November

11am-1pm

CREATIVITY AND SOCIAL INNOVATION
Poblenou Campus
Tallers Area

 

Presentation of applied research initiatives related to creative and cultural industries and social innovation within the "ecosystem" of the Tallers area and the Poblenou Campus .

Further information

1pm-2pm

UPF NODE WEEK CLOSING SESSION AND APÉRITIF
Poblenou Campus
Gutenberg Square