News

Juan Gaitán, a graduate from the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, has been selected as one of twelve emerging designers to showcase his lamp collection at the Hábitat Valencia trade fair – an international event within the Spanish industry that brings together projects in lighting, decoration and interior design.

The University organised three welcome sessions in the Aula Magna to offer guidance to the new undergraduate students and provide information about the academic and extracurricular activities

The winning proposal introduces a new way of living based on sustainability, community life and integration with the Maresme landscape

The 2025 Alumni Awards recognised former students Pol Ricart (Medicine) with the award for Best Social Transformation Project for his initiative MedBrain Global; Jordi Aranega (Business Administration and Management) with the award for Professional Career Achievement; and the architecture studio Arquitectura-G with the award for an institution founded or led by an alumni member. The event featured a keynote speech by Dr Mario Alonso Puig and performances by Pol Oñate and SuperArte of the Sifu Foundation.

Tomás Masó, lecturer in Critical Thinking and Projects and PhD candidate in Architecture, has been awarded first prize in the prestigious 2025 Richard H. Driehaus Architecture Competition with the proposal Ni Arrai! at the Irurita site (Navarre). The project team also includes Javier Manén and Enric Mas.

Guillermo Preckler, a graduate in Business Administration and Management from the Class of 2018 at UIC Barcelona, has been included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Spain list – a distinction that highlights the country’s most influential young leaders across a range of sectors.

On 31 May 2025, UIC Barcelona and Politecnico di Torino celebrated the 20th anniversary of their double degree programme with a gathering that brought together more than 100 former students. The event marked two decades of academic collaboration between two institutions that have successfully established an international pathway for students with both technical and business-oriented profiles.

The closing session of the Growing Together programme – a professional mentoring initiative promoted by Career Services within the Alumni department at UIC Barcelona – took place on 22 May. The programme ran for approximately four months and involved 14 mentor-mentee pairs, connecting graduates with more junior professional profiles – the mentees – with more experienced mentors, in a relationship based on shared growth and learning.

The two graduates of UIC Barcelona’s Master’s in Biodigital Architecture, alongside architect Eva Franch, have co-designed the pavilion representing Catalonia for the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – a Collateral Event of the 2025 Venice Biennale.

The meeting was attended by Ferran Vila, 2004 graduate of Business Administration alumni and head of Structured Product Desk & Flow Desk at Morabanc, and David Levy, CEO of DiverInvest and member of the University Advisory Board of UIC Barcelona. The round table was moderated by Ricardo Torrecilla, lecturer of the Master’s Degree in Private Equity & Entrepreneurial Finance.