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The Campus

 

EETAC is part of the Baix Llobregat Campus, which has an area of 38 Ha and houses university services as a fantastic Library, a bar / cafeteria / restaurant and the dorm  Residencia Universitària Pius Font i Quer .

It has excellent communications with Barcelona and its metropolitan area: the Castelldefels train station belongs to zone 1 of Barcelona, that is, it is integrated with the same rates as the metro, it is only 300 meters From the Campus, there are several bus lines that arrive there and you can also access the C-32 motorway and the Castelldefels motorway.

The Baix Llobregat Campus has been designed with environmental criteria both in terms of construction and the use of buildings, so that specific care is taken of the soil and vegetation, the water and energy consumption of the buildings, and It provides bicycle and pedestrian lanes for internal mobility, and the promotion of public transport in its external communications. For more information click here (in catalan).

The Campus is a 10-minute walk from the town of Castelldefels, an eminently tourist and residential city that has miles of beaches, as well as catering services, sports, medical centers, etc. We recommend this video if you do not know the city. Around the Campus there is also one of the most singular sports facilities in Catalonia, the Olympic Channel, with a multitude of aquatic activities and equipped with a modern gym.

Other places of interest within 20 minutes are the Garraf Natural Park or the Barcelona-El Prat Airport.

 

The EETAC and the entire campus of the Baix Llobregat are part of the Mediterranean Technology Park, a privileged environment where research combines with reference centers worldwide, ICFO, the CIMNE or the CTTC; Development and innovation in the form of different companies, with teaching (EETAC and ESAB).

Since 2014, the campus also has an ESA Business Incubation Center (the European Space Agency), which offers start up support and technical expertise for the creation of innovative companies.

 

EETAC is also part of the Campus of International Excellence Barcelona Knowledge Campus (BKC). The Polytechnic University of Catalonia · BarcelonaTech (UPC) jointly presented this project with the University of Barcelona.

BKC is already the main driver of the scientific, social and business activity of the territorial environment in which it is located, and a pole of attraction of talent on an international scale. Two universities of reference that collaborate strategically to transform their environment from innovation and sustainable development.

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