Academic year 2020-2021

Measures taken 13th October are extended until further notice

• Classes organization just as it is now is kept until then semester's end.
• Some subjects that are actually being made fully online, can arrange some presencial activity, problems class or laboratory to prepare final exams, deliver a project... 
• Exams calendar is kept, and for now, all of them will be made presencially at the FIB facilities.

• Until further notice, we maintain the teaching planning as it is being developed currently.
• The exams are kept to their calendar, and in general they will be done face-to-face at the FIB facilities. The days 4, 5, 6, 9 and 10 of November are exclusively devoted to taking evaluation records (there are no classes).

In summary, we list the highlights:

• Face Mask. Obligation to wear a face mask (hygienic or surgical) all the time, for all activities and in all spaces. The UPC is providing 2 reusable hygienic masks to each student that you can pick them up at library (https://www.upc.edu/en/press-room/news/upc-students-can-now-pick-up-their-masks-at-the-university-libraries). You should have received a message with this information.
• Hand hygiene. Obligation to wash hands when entering and leaving buildings, classrooms, and laboratories. In addition to the toilets, there are hydroalcoholic gel dispensers at the entrances to all these spaces.
• Safety distance. Maintain a safety distance of 1.5 meters.
• Spaces. All the spaces dedicated to the teaching activity have been validated by the technical services of the UPC, and are suitable in the current context and allow adequate air renewal.
• In buildings and classrooms. Follow the signs and signage on the buildings and classrooms. Access in a staggered manner, avoiding congestion at the entrance and exit of the classroom and buildings. Corridors and stairs are a place of passage, and must be free.
• Inside buildings. Follow marked traffic flows. At the stairs, follow the signs for the ascent and descent routes.
• In the elevators. Use of the elevator should be avoided. If it is to be used, it should not be used by more than one person at a time.
• In the classrooms. They will work at 50% of their capacity. Seats that cannot be used are marked with a red cross.
• In computer rooms and other laboratories. A single user per computer or workplace. When using a shared classroom computer, paper and disinfectant are available for cleaning the keyboard and mouse.
• Rooms at Campus for online teaching. We are setting up rooms for students who have to carry out face-to-face and online activities consecutively and do not have enough time to travel to their home. These spaces operate with prior reservation, and are exclusively for this use.

From the FIB we work with three possible scenarios and we have the three of them prepared:

• Make classes in the planned way, presnecially and with the Covid conditions: mask, distancing, group separation...
• Full confinement where everything will be made remotely, just as it was successfully realized the last semester, but with better equipment.
• Mix model implementation, because of possible parcial confinements.