What do we do at UPF Languages?

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  • We offer university-quality courses with native teachers with extensive professional experience, in 10 languages for the UPF community and the general public.
  • We have more than 4,000 students in the Catalan, Spanish for foreigners, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic courses that take place at UPF facilities.
  • We are responsible for teaching and coordinating language subjects such as English, French, Chinese, Russian and German in university centers attached to UPF such as Tecnocampus Mataró-Maresme, Escuela Superior de Enfermería del Mar, Escuela Superior de Comercio Internacional.
  • For more than a decade we have been designing and imparting tailor-made training plans for UPF and external professional groups. We train future teachers of Spanish as a foreign language (ELE).
  • We offer training and certification courses for the higher level of Catalan, open to the UPF community and the general public.
  • We conduct more than 4,500 diagnostic tests and language certification each year.
  • We are responsible for designing and administering UPF's own Accreditation Test (Certifying Test of Linguistic Competence - PCCL) in English, French, German, Italian, Catalan and Spanish, recognized by other universities, by AGAUR and by ACLES.
  • We host official interuniversity exams (such as the CIFALC Catalan or closed English exams) as well as the diplomas of Spanish as a foreign language (DELE) and the cultural knowledge test (CCSE).
  • We are an agent for the development of the UPF Multilingualism Action Plan, promoting the use of several languages and the creation of conditions for interaction between these languages in all university activities.
  • We participate in the UPF Multilingualism Promotion Award (PFM) that allows undergraduate students to enjoy a course in English (higher level) or other languages to UPF Languages each year.