Pompeu Fabra University’s educational and scientific missions stem from a series of commitments to society that place it as a catalyst of various transformation processes.

In view of these two missions, UPF also seeks to contribute to social change through culture with the understanding that its natural activity as a centre of knowledge gives rise to numerous initiatives that go beyond the academic environment and offer mechanisms to improve the environment.

Hence, the UPF Culture programme aims to be a project created from, by and for the university community; but also projected to the world. So that other institutions, bodies, companies or individual movements can weave an action network to create and promote culture. Both within and without the university area indistinctly, establishing horizontal mechanisms and unlimited relationships in the challenges and goals. Only then will the University's cultural mission become a real mechanism for transforming our immediate environment.

In accordance with the above purpose, the University’s Culture programme can be explained through these five elements:

The awareness that culture is, above all, an exercise of pedagogy in public, which openly promotes knowledge; but, above all, based on continuous learning.

Fostering collective knowledge, understanding that culture should be a collaborative agent generating content in a participatory and not necessarily hierarchical way.

Assuming parainstitutcional cultural creation. The University is aware that cultural and artistic production follows several circuits and mechanisms of generation, support and display. Therefore, UPF does not propose a programme that competes with the established channels of the culture industry, rather it seeks, from the perspective of research, experimentation and action, to promote other means of cultural production.

The desire to understand the context of the University as a showcase of areas of action at the service of a community willing to fill them by providing them with artistic and cultural content.

The conviction that culture is at the service of social transformation and that it has a key role in responsibility to the immediate, but also towards the global environment.