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Do you want to shape the future of IoT and machine learning? Can you push the boundaries of video technology? Are you up for real-time problem-solving for some of the biggest players?

Do you want to go abroad in the summer to do language or technical courses abroad? Take advantage of the summers schools!

Sónar + D is an International Congress that explores how creativity modifies our present and imagines new futures through Technology and the Digital Transformation of Cultural Industries.

The second HackNight surprised everyone, the fact that was carnival brought out the funniest and most imaginative side of the whole world! What will wait for us in the third?

Hey! You also have instagram? Well, we already have one thing in common! What do you also study at the FIB? Then this is for you.

You think about doing a master's degree and you do not know very well what? Come and find out everything in the information sessions, we will answer your questions!

The students of SIO, a subject within the Information Systems Specialization of FIB's Bachelor in Informatics Engineering, accompanied by their teacher, Joan A. Pastor, have visited the UPF Barcelona School of Management on the occasion of a round table held on Thursday, 21th of March 2019, and invited by the management of this business school. 

Osint Framework + data privacy = ?

Date: 26th of March
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Location: Sala d'Actes Manuel Martí Recober, Building B6 ground floor

FIB Visiona is born, the new association that drives your career towards goals that inspire you.

Mayra Pastor Valdivia, a student at UPC-FIB, is one of 15 women selected for Diversi & King's GDC Scholarship 2019 to go to the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, CA.

On Wednesday, March 20th from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m., maintenance will be carried out at the Racó database.

Hackathon Mobility BCN 2019 invites you to participate in the mobility of the future: how we will move, our experience while on the move, and the services derived from our movements. 

Conferenciante: Prof. Anibal R. Figueiras-Vidal, Dpto. de Teoria de la Señal y Comunicaciones, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Día: miércoles, 13 de marzo, 11:00 h

Sitio: Aula de Teleensenyament (edificio B3, 1ª planta)

Speaker: David Moriña Soler, BGSMath - UAB
Date: Friday, 15 th of march 2019 at 12:30 pm 
Venue: building ETSEIB, floor 6 (Avda. Diagonal, 647)

Day: monday, 18 th of march 2019
Time: 1 pm
Venue: Auditori, building Vèrtex

ACM Celebration of Women in Computing: womENcourage 2019 brings together people in the computing profession to exchange knowledge and experience and provide special support for women who are pursuing their academic degrees and starting their careers in computing.

Date: 7 th - 9 th of May, 2019
Time: 9 am - 6 pm 
Place: Aula Master, Building A3, Campus Nord 

Internship Proposal: Designing of a domain-specific modeling tool for Business Continuity Management within health-related crisis

Take a look at the upcoming Severo Ochoa Reserch Seminiars this month, the BSC has 2 scheduled talks. Check them out.

Do you want to carry out your Master Thesis in Vrije Universiteit Brussel the 2019/2020 academic course?

The 2019 ACM Europe Summer School on “HPC Computer Architectures for AI and Dedicated Applications” will take place in Barcelona on July 17th-24th 2019.

Day: Friday, 1st of March
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Place: Institute of Catalan Studies, street Carme 47 (Barcelona)

Speaker: Robert Sedgewick, Princeton University

Time: Wednesday, 6th of March at 12:30 pm

Venue: Aula Màster, Campus Nord

The event will take place at IHP - Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics, Frankfurt (Oder) and University of Potsdam from 2nd until 8th of September 2018.

Are you interested in studying in the United States? On Wednesday, 27th of February there will be a virtual information session on Fulbright scholarships for postgraduate studies in the United States.

Do you have plans for this summer? Travel to one of the more than 40 courses that BEST organizes throughout Europe. Come to our activities and you will learn what this is all about ...

During March and April, PATC will bring us four courses: "Introduction to Simulation Environments for Life Sciences", "Systems Workshop: Petaflop System Administration; Marenostrum 4", “Introduction to OpenACC” and “Introduction to CUDA Programming”.

The first session was not enough and you still wanted more or unfortunately you missed it? Well no problem, the 2nd session of the HackNight is coming!

Call for international mobility (Erasmus +, Latin America, Russia, India, Taiwan, China and double degrees) for the course 2019/2020. Requests by e-Secretaria.

Take a look at the training events organized by the Education and Training Department this spring period. Check them out.

The third edition of Mobile Week has already arrived, which will once again be held the week before the Mobile World Congress (between 14th and 23th of February ).

4YFN is an event organized within the Mobile World Congress, which will take place in Barcelona from the 25th to the 27th of February. This event will gather the youngest startups with the most potential in the tech industry.

Speaker: Lorenzo Casaccia, Vice President of Technical Standards in Qualcomm

Time: Wednesday, 20th of February at 12:15 pm

Place: Building A3 classroom 203

Speaker: Iñigo Urteaga, Columbia University
Time: Friday, 15th of February at 12pm
Place: AGORA−Espai Polivalent, mòdul B3, Campus Nord UPC

HackUPC opens registrations to join the team of organizers! Come to the informative session that will take place on Wednesday 13rd of February at 12am in the classroom A5001. You can not miss this experience!

On Wednesday 13 February an information session on mobility programmes will be held.

Date: 28th February 2019

Time:  9am -6pm

Venue: Sala Àgora.

Do you have an interesting project to share or do you want to help someone with theirs? Well, the HackNights are coming!

Speaker: Dr. Ashutosh Dutta

Date: 27th February, 11:00 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Venue: Aula de Teleensenyament, B3 building 

Tsinghua International Summer School will be held from 11 to 24 July 2019 in Beijing, China.

Informative session on Wednesday 30^th January at 12 p.m. at D6-S103 (UPC Campus Nord, Building D6, Basement room 103).

Internships offered in France (Toulouse and Castres) to carry out the TFM.

On Wednesday, January 23, from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., an action will be taken with classroom file servers.

The inLab FIB informs that as of January 25, student accounts will be canceled (PC network (Windows and Linux), databases and Virtech and Bscw services).

Are you passionate about game development? Do you have your own project and want to publicize your talent?

Are you studying at the MIRI, Data Science, Advanced Computing &amp or the MAI? Now you can carry out the Master Thesis during an internship stay at the University of Padova (from March to July 2019).

To promote the use of this technology in the EU, they meet on the days of 9th,10th and 11th of January at the Auditorium of the UPC Vèrtex Building to kick-start the European project AI4EU ('Artificial Intelligence for the European Union')

The session will take place on Thursday 17th of January  from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Place: Sala Barcelona in the MediaTIC building (Roc Boronat 117, Barcelona Street).

Aalto Science Institute's internship programme for summer 2019 has opened their call for international bachelor students.

Call for a scholarship for young researchers in the field of "American Studies" for the year 2019-2020.

How do you plan to spend your summer? How does getting involved in some of the world’s biggest experiments sound?

Are you a B.Sc. or M.Sc. student (who will have completed at least three years of full-time studies at university level by next summer) interested in working on advanced IT projects for two full months during the summer?

 UPC Associations Award 2017-2018 (resolution:13th  rd of December, 2018)

BEIHANG University will hold the International Summer School from 29th June to 26th July, 2019.

Take a look at the upcoming Severo Ochoa Reserch Seminiars this month, the BSC has 2 scheduled talks. Check them out.

In relation to the subject Automotive Embedded Systems, which will be offered in intensive format during two weeks in the months of January and February. Pre-enrolment deadline: 25th January, 2019  28th December, 2018.

inLab FIB informs about the closure of computer labs.

A four-week credit-bearing programme in Linköping,  Sweden – Scandinavia, only available for students from LiU’s partner universities. No tuition fees!

Internships offered in CESBIO (Toulouse, France) with option to carry out the TFG/TFM.

The call for international mobility scholarships "Santander Iberoamerican undergraduate students 2019-2020" has been opened.

Next Thursday, December 20th, the round table "Joining Generations of Women in Tech" will take place in the Manuel Martí Recober Assembly Hall of the FIB, in which kids, girls and women of different generations will meet to share their vision.

Next Tuesday December 18th, at 7:00 pm, the Open Talent " Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence for Good"  will take place at the Tech Talent Center.This Open Talent will be hosted by Cristian Canton, Engineering Manager at Facebook.

Take a look at the upcoming Severo Ochoa Reserch Seminiars this month, the BSC has 3 scheduled talks. Check them out.

On December 7 the computer labs B5 and C6 will remain closed.

The laboratoris of the A5 will be open from 8 am to 9 pm.

The last LIVE_FOR event on the “European Investigation Order (EIO) and digital forensic analysis” will take place on December 18th, 2018 in the city of Barcelona.

Are you a UPC student and you want to go in exchange with the UNITECH programme?

Take a look at the training events organized by the Education and Training Department this winter period.

Would you like to shape the future of business through data? Participate in the BCG GAMMA Datathon in Madrid, the 24th November.

Pre-enrollment to official Masters organized by Barcelona School of Informatics is now open. The course will start in February for the Spring of 2018-2019 four-month period.

UPC and Cisco have an agreement and you can enjoy a 1-year internship at the Cisco Systems headquarters in Silicon Valley (San Jose, California), very close to San Francisco!

ETH Zurich offers 15 scholarships for a summer research stay within the Amgen Scholars Programme. The programme applies to students studying for a Bachelor’s degree at a European university.

The call for international mobility scholarships Santander Erasmus Scholarship 2019/2020 has been opened.

The Computer Science Department at ETH offers a summer research fellowship for undergraduate and graduate students.

Take a look at the upcoming Severo Ochoa Reserch Seminiars this month, the BSC has 3 scheduled talks. Check them out.

The Polytech Montpellier is organizing their first Undergraduate Engineering Summer School from May 27th to June 14th 2019.

The Atos IT Challenge is an annual competition for engineering students from all around the world. Join the competition before November 30th, 2018.

Live the week of engineering at the UPC! The Week of Enginnering Competition, WEC18, arrives from November 24th to 30, 2018.

On november 2 computer laboratories have an especial schedule.

Are you interested in doing an internship at DTT (Amsterdam), a development company creating app, web and game solutions?

Are you addicted to coding and solving complex problems? Come to the 3rd Annual BSC/UPC HPC Hackathon and test your problem solving skills.

The inLab FIB informs that the computer labs of the A5 building will be open some weekends for the students of the FIB. Check the calendar to see the specific schedules.

Meet the campus teaching your talents in the world of photography and earn an external hard drive of 1TB or a SDXC Memory of 128 GB.

We are very happy to share with you the latest report "Informatics Education in Europe: Institutions, Degrees, Students, Positions, Salaries. Key Data 2012-2017"

On Friday, October 19th, the first alternative days for free information technology will be held at the Campus Nord in the building A4, floor 2, class 205.

On Wednesday, October 24, Bioinformatics Barcelona organizes the first Forum BIB, with the aim of highlighting the role of Bioinformatics in the fields of health and agri-food, and showing the successes achieved in the ecosystem through BIB since its creation.

This Prize, recognises an outstanding researcher who has achieved a career of excellence at the highest international level in Europe and has made a significant contribution toward different fields of knowledge, as well as a positive impact on society.

On Wednesday 7th November an information session on mobility programs will be held, at 12:15h and at 15:00h in the FIB’s Sala de Actos Manuel Martí Recober (Building B6 ground floor).

Up to 5 scholarships are offered for predoctoral research in centers of excellence in the United States in any discipline, for a period of between nine and twelve months.

The Vice-Rectorate for International Policy calls for financial aid to finance the teaching missions (STA) to be carried out during the academic year 2018-19 within the framework of the ERASMUS + KA103 program of the European Union.

Wednesday October 10th at 12:15 pm,  will take place in the Sala Multimedia of the B3 building of the Campus Nord, the presentation of the Universal Robots company. The "Universal Robots Hackathon 2019" will also be presented.

By October 17th, from 13h to 14h and 14h to 15h in the Àgora Room, the research group GESSI (Software and Service Engineering Group) organizes the 4th GESSI Pizza Day.

When: Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Where: Sala Multimèdia Professor Pedro Vicente del Fraile, B3 Building - Ricardo Valle S201 -2 Floor

Organized by: Servei de Gestió de la Innovació – UPC

Take a look at the upcoming Severo Ochoa Reserch Seminiars this month, the BSC has 3 scheduled talks. Check them out.

Ready for a challenge? Join SAP for a 24-hour hackathon where you’ll work hands-on to develop your own use cases using the latest SAP Customer Experience solutions.

Thursday, September 27th, talk open to everyone where Hackers @ UPC will explain everything they know about hackathons.

Wednesday, September 19th, in the Plaza de Telecos, the Fair of Associations of the Campus Nord 2018 will take place.

Location: Aula Màster A3. Campus Nord.

Date and time: Wednesday, October 3rd, 2018, 12:15 p.m.

If you want to complete your studies at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder), at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS) or at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), you may attend the presentation session of the Balsells Fellowship Program on September 26th.

On Wednesday, 5th September in the Sala de Actos Manuel Martí Recober of the FIB, the welcome ceremony was celebrated for all newly admitted students of the FIB master's degrees.

This autumn, the BSC is starting with new on-demand PRACE training courses. Chem them out.

The new academic year starts and the SORS series continue. The BSC has 4 scheduled talks. Check them out.

The list of admitted students for the 2018-2019 course on the master's degrees taught at the FIB has been published.

From July 31 at 5:00 pm until August 27 at 1:00 pm, only the Racó, the web, the mail and a small set of computer services will work. Consult the details of the services.

Inlab FIB informs about the closing of Computers classrooms.

The Advanced Engineering Institute at the University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien is looking for an intern for the realization of a freeform and 4D printing application.

The Big Data Talent Awards have the objective to recognize the doctoral theses and master or postgraduate final projects related to Big Data and Data Analytics with more socioeconomic impact and with the biggest technological innovation.

The UPC will invest, on October 18th, doctor 'honoris causa' to the American math Margaret Hamilton, a pioneer in the use of the term 'software engineering', 50 years ago, during the first Apollo missions of NASA.

The FIB will be closed from August 1st to August 26th, both included.

everis awards scholarships for the enrolment fees of students on the master's degree at the FIB. The financial grant of each scholarship will be 3,000 euros per academic year.

On Wednesday, 5^th September at 12:15 p.m. in the Sala de Actos Manuel Martí Recober of the FIB, the welcome ceremony for all newly admitted students of the FIB master's degrees and Erasmus will be celebrated.

Is there a situation affecting you or the people that matter to you that you’d like to improve? Would you like to make a difference using your programming skills?

Fòrum TIC is willing to offer five grants (first-year or second year) for a master’s degree at FIB (MIRI, MAI, MEI). 

AI Coliseum is an artificial intelligence competition in Java open to all. Test your strategic ability: design your bot, upload it and compete against other bots to get up to €1000 in prizes!

Join the Amadeus challenge starting July 9, 2018, program your own bot and have fun with the other participants!

Speaker: Albert M. K. Cheng, CS Department, University of Houston
Time: July 9th, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Place: Sala d’Actes Manuel Martí Recober, Facultat d’Informàtica de Barcelona (FIB)

Dones-COEINF and FIB-UPC organize the First Barcelona Grad Cohort Workshop on October 18th and 19th, 2018

Take a look at the upcoming Severo Ochoa Reserch Seminiars this month, the BSC has 5 scheduled talks. Check them out.

Berry White team, representing UPC at the Student Cluster Competition 2018, needs your support!

We are looking for students of the FIB, both in the undergraduate and master's degrees, who wish to participate in a mentoring program to welcome international students who will come to study at the FIB next semester (18/19 1st semester).

Enrolment in the FIB as of July 11th. Enrolment of new students of GEI on July 13th, 16th and 17th; and GCED on July 17th. Academic calendars also available on our website.

FIB is a participating entity at the Challenge-Based Innovation program at CERN, we are seeking motivated FIB students (bachelor and master level) to participate in an interdisciplinary team (UPC, ESADE, IED) to collaborate with researchers at CERN for discover novel solutions for the future of humankind.

Friday 15th June, IPEN will concentrate on the state of play of privacy engineering in the wake of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and discuss examples of state of the art implementations.

University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (FHWS) is offering a one-year research scholarship "The Warehouse as a Digital Ecosystem"

In memoriam of Prof. Nacho Navarro, the Department of Computer Architecture will award 2 grants for FIB graduates that enroll in the MIRI master in the Computer Networks and Distributed Systems or High Performance Computing specialities.

Take a look at the upcoming Severo Ochoa Reserch Seminiars this month, the BSC has 5 scheduled talks. Check them out.

Thursday 17-5-2018 the Director of Communication of Ruralmeeting, Anna Cano, accompanied by the computing technician of DataXip, Jordi Espinal, presented their initiative and platform in front of the students.

The UPC ranks 32nd in the world and is the top European university in scientific output in the field of Mathematics and Computer Science.

In the context of the events of its 40th anniversary, the FIB organizes next Wednesday, June 6th 2018, the event in which the origins of the FIB will be announced, with remembrance and tribute included by the companions Nacho Navarro and Tomas Lang

WomENcourage brings together women in the computing profession and related technical fields to exchange knowledge and experience and provide special support for women who are pursuing their academic degrees and starting their careers in computing.

The Fundació Catalunya - La Pedrera has announced the inclusion of the MAI and MIRI master's degrees in its Master of Excellence grants program for the 2018-2019 academic year.

Speaker: Marc Molins Gracia

Date: 30th of May, 12:00 p.m.

Location: Sala d'Actes Manuel Martí Recober (Building B6 ground floor)

Tsinghua International Summer School will be held from July 16th – 27th, 2018 in Beijing, China. This summer school will be an opportunity to gain first-hand experience of China guided by experts in the field, and also get to know more about Tsinghua University.

The Embassy of France in collaboration with the Asociación Diálogo launches 47 'AVENIR' grants for the 2018/19 academic year.

There will be a maintenance of the classroom (A5,B5 and C6) network equipment next Wednesday, June 13, from 8:00 a.m until 4:00 p.m
 

The UPC and the BSC bring together the "open source" community of processor design, from Monday 7th May to Thursday 10th at the Vertex Auditorium of the UPC.

Next Friday, May 4th, on the occasion of the FIB Party, the timetable of the computer labs change.

From the student association HackersUPC we are looking for new additions to the team to organize the next HackUPC. Do not miss this unique experience!

Have you recently renewed your laptop or do you plan to renew it? Give your computer to the Programa UPC Reutilitza.

Join the everis Escape Room on April 18th and 19th at the Campus Nord. Will you be able to recover the information and escape in 60 minutes?

The application period to enter the 2018-2019 edition of the Masters organized by the Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona (FIB) is open, to start in the Autumn Semester of academic year 2018-2019 (September 2018)

Meet with companies in the ICT sector on April 11th at the spring FòrumTIC

Conference by Timo Buetefisch, CEO of COOLTRA

Day: Monday, April 9th, 12 p.m.

Venue: Auditorium Room, Vèrtex Building

Sónar+D is an international congress that explores how creativity is changing our present and imagining new futures, in collaboration with researchers, innovators and business leaders.

Do you love solving problems? Are you a great coder? Want to compete with the best? The Tuenti Challenge is for you! Registration is already open, so hurry up and sign up now!

The Mini Jornades of the UPC's Club of Role are held on the 21st of March at the Sala Ágora (Plaza de Telecos) from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Call for international mobility (Erasmus +, Latin America, Russia, India, Taiwan, China and european double degree) for the course 2018/2019.

Next Wednesday 21st of February come to the Sala de Juntes room to meet the NAE company and learn about the business technology sector.

If you are interested in achieving an advanced level in the domain of the Catalan language, this course is essential for presenting you to the interuniversity exams organized at the UPC and obtaining the official certificate of proficiency level of the Catalan language.

Beihang University, on behalf of the China Scholarship Council, offers three scholarships to study a Master's or Doctorate at this University as of the 2018-2019 academic year.

On Wednesday 21st February an information session on mobility programmes will be held, at 12:15h and at 15:00h in the FIB’s Sala de Actos Manuel Martí Recober (Building B6 ground floor).