UPF Barcelona School of Management becomes ICREA Host Institution

The UPF Barcelona School of Management (UPF-BSM) has exceeded the demanding access requirements and has become an ICREA Host Institution, the Catalan Institution of Research and Advanced Studies. This achievement adds to the school's research strategy within the framework of international accreditations, and adds to the achievements recently achieved in this area by EU agencies.

This will allow the UPF-BSM to permanently host both national and international top-level researchers under the umbrella and funding of the Generalitat de Catalunya.

ICREA, a foundation funded by the Catalan government and governed by its patronage, was born in response to the need for new recruitment formulas that would allow competition on an equal level with other research systems, geared to recruiting the most extraordinary and talented scientific and academic staff.

Bein an ICREA Host Institution supports the UPF-BSM research strategy within the framework of international accreditations

This entity works side by side with Catalan universities and research centers to integrate ICREA research teachers into the Catalan research system. ICREA offers permanent contracts to come to work in Catalonia to researchers from around the world. Over the years, the organization has become synonymous with academic excellence worldwide.

ICREA currently has 273 researchers from all fields of knowledge that carry out their research in foster institutions of Catalonia, recognized for excellence in research.

Since its creation in 2001, ICREA has taken EUR 979 million for research, has directed and presented 3.536 doctoral and master's thesis and created up to 2020 a total of 1,789 jobs.