The Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), named after the man who laid down the standards of the modern Catalan language, was set up by an act of the Catalan Parliament in 1990. It is an urban university located in the very heart of the Barcelona city, stretching from the Rambla to the Olympic Village. Today, more than 10,000 students are enrolled at the university in its academic programs.

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The Audiovisual Institute

The Audiovisual Institute (IUA) is an interdisciplinary center of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra devoted to a range of activities related with digital technologies in the media, comprising Education and Production as essential parts of Research. The three research groups in the IUA are the Music Technology Group (MTG), the Experimental Interactive Communication Group, and the Interactive Technology Group.

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The Music Technology Group

The Music Technology Group (MTG) of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona was founded in 1994 by its current director, Dr. Xavier Serra. Currently, there are more than 50 researchers working on sound synthesis, audio content processing, and other topics related to Music Technology research and experimentation in MTG.

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L'Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC)

Created by the Autonomous Government of Catalonia in 2000, the Higher School of Music of Catalonia was established to train professional musicians. The school is an official institution offering a degree equivalent to that of a university. It is a centre which aims to reflect the diversity of the musical panorama in Catalonia, understanding music not only as a professional phenomenon but also as having a very important social dimension and function. The school was established on four key ideas: to provide a flexible curriculum which acknowledges the diversity of our social reality, to provide a common space for development of all fields of music study, to be an open institution which operates within national and international social contexts, and finally, to be a center for innovation by incorporating new technologies for teaching, creation and research. The school has a capacity of approximately 600 students, approximately 400 of which specialise in music performance.

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