Throughout the academic year, the Voluntariat Lingüístic programme offers a programme of cultural outings and tours, both in Barcelona and in the rest of Catalonia, with the aim of helping international students to become familiar with Catalonia, its language, its culture and its national reality.

All outings and tours being offered are generally free of charge (except for travel fees and admission to specific monuments and buildings, which everyone must pay for), and are mainly aimed at UPF international students --undergraduate, master's and doctoral students (in this latter case, however, only during the first year in which they enrol at UPF). However, they are also occasionally open to Catalan students, lecturers and members of the administration staff who may be interested or who wish to attend with their language partners. All outings have a limited number of places, and can not be attended in any case by people from outside UPF.

A few days before every tour an e-mail (written in Catalan, English and Spanish) is sent to all international students at UPF in which full details of the tour are provided, and then an enrolment deadline is open. The spots available are given on a first-come first-served basis. Thus, it is very important that when you sign up for a tour you are committed to attending --or otherwise to tell us well in advance if, due to an unexpected reason, you won't finally be able to attend--, since there is a limited number of spots in every tour and many times there are students who cannot be given one because the group is full. Likewise, it is not possible to attend none of the VL activities without signing up beforehand and without having received the corresponding confirmation of spot.

As far as the use of languages is concerned, generally speaking in the tours a certain amount of Catalan --which we wish to share, to an approppriate extent, with international students-- is combined with either English or Spanish, depending on the number of guides in every tour, on the composition of every group and on the moment of the year, among other factors. The language combination of every tour is specified in the corresponding message which is sent some days in advance.

Should you have any doubt or suggestion, please e-mail us at [email protected].