CIT UPC - Centre d'Innovació i Tecnologia de la UPC

Turning university research into practical solutions

CIT UPC is the Innovation and Technology Center of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya–BarcelonaTech (UPC). It provides technology solutions to businesses and organizations, applying university research through technology transfer, research commercialization, and project management.

Technology fields

The center works across a broad range of areas:

• Energy, environment, and water.
• Health and agricultural technology.
• Advanced manufacturing and materials, including advanced materials.
• Digital transformation, including cybersecurity, Industry 4.0, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, data spaces, and mobile technologies.
• Urban planning and sustainability, smart cities, and infrastructure.
• Logistics and mobility, automotive, and aerospace.
• Chemistry, optics and photonics, audiovisual technologies, and wood.
• Circular economy.

Industries served

Applications include aerospace, food and agriculture, marine industries, automotive, construction, distribution, and consumer goods.

Selected projects

• MARIA: a prototype for a portable, flexible, radiation-free device designed to improve early breast cancer detection, developed with UPC's MAPTHE research group and the Department of Mathematics at CUNEF University in Madrid.
• ZeroCarbonPave: a UPC project studying whether biochar can be incorporated into asphalt mixtures to reduce the carbon footprint of roads.

Industry partnerships and reported activity

Microsoft has joined Connèxia UPC, a long-term, customized university–industry partnership program. Through the program, Microsoft began working with inLab FIB on advanced techniques to improve the performance and speed of graph databases. For 2023, CIT UPC reports working with more than 450 companies and organizations, over 65 research groups, and holding more than 200 executive meetings to address business technology needs.

Contact

Address: K2M Building, first floor, Office 106, 1–3 C/ Jordi Girona, Barcelona 08034, Spain. Phone: +34 93 405 44 03. Email: info.cit@upc.edu.