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The mayor of Barcelona and the rectors of the UB and the UPC visit the Barcelona Science Park

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 29.01.2010

The mayor of Barcelona and the rectors of the UB and the UPC visit the Barcelona Science Park

The mayor of Barcelona, Jordi Hereu, and the rectors of the UB and the UPC, Dídac Ramírez and Antoni Giró, visited today, Friday January 29th, the Barcelona Knowledge Campus (BKC), located at the North Campus, where they met with representatives of the Neighbors Association of the University Area and afterwards proceeded to visit the School of Economics and Enterprise of the UB, where they were welcomed by the dean, Elisenda Paluzie, and her team. The group then crossed the Diagonal to the South campus, and visited the schools of Biology, Geology, Physics and Chemistry, and the Barcelona Science Park, where they were greeted by the Park's director, Fernando Albericio. Later they visited the Nanoengineering Research Centre of the UPC, where they held a press conference with attending media representatives in which the rectors and the mayor presented the projects that have been carried out at the BKC over the past eighteen months, as well as the main future lines.


In July 2008 –exactly eighteen months ago- the Barcelona City Council, the UB and the UPC formalized the cession of the lots allocated to public streets and free spaces of the Diagonal campus. This was the beginning of a series of changes and urban planning that have enabled the integration of this teaching and research space located in the urban sprawl of the southern access to Barcelona and where thousands of students and teachers converge daily. This space has been recently recognized as an international campus of excellence, promoted jointly by the UB and the UPC under the name Barcelona Knowledge Campus.

The BKC is a motor for the promotion of scientific, social and entrepreneurial activity carried out in Barcelona and its neighboring areas, from the perspective of adding the capacities that both institutions hold in the Diagonal area. The international vocation of both universities and the premise of creating a change in the economic model that is able to transform the setting are the basis of this proposal. The union of both Catalan universities, which are complementary in some cases and in others independent leaders in specific areas of training, research and knowledge transfer, have been key in making the BKC an international campus of excellence. This university space is one of the most active and strongest pillars of knowledge in the south of Europe.