About us

Hello!

We welcome you to Elisava; if you want to study engineering or design, this is your home. Of course, you're not just going to study here... you're going to discover theories and tendencies, you're going to question pre-established ideas, you're going to experience new ways and build alternatives. We will give you the best tools to achieve it; your creative energy sets the pace.

Elisava is the strength of its student body, more than 17,000 students from all over the world, those who have left their mark and those who enter today stepping hard to break schemes. It is a plural space that is nourished by a constantly changing multicultural society, where innovation is urgent and absolutely necessary.

You are our present and the future. We want to empower your abilities, lead you and connect you with the professional environment to enable your dreams so that they come true. We believe in a better world and we believe we can transform it. We're ready.

What we are and what we do

Elisava, the Design and Engineering Faculty of Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC), fourth best Catalan university and sixth in Spain, promotes education, knowledge and research, and offers Undergraduate, Master, postgraduate and specialised courses in the fields of design, engineering and communication.

At Elisava there are two degrees, the University Degree in Design and the University Degree in Industrial Design Engineering, a wide variety of Masters and Postgraduate degrees and the University Master in Design and communication, the first official Master in Design in Spain. This training is complemented by a variety of specialist courses for professionals. You will find all the information in detail in the studies section in this website.

All our programmes are valid in Europe, as they are articulated through ECTS credits and competences governed by the new European Higher Education Area (Bologna Plan).

Our principles

Elisava University School is a private non-profit foundation represented, governed and administered by a Board of Trustees. We do not have any modern manifesto nor do we obey Commandments, but we have some principles, which are these:

Teaching to think and create in freedom
Providing high-quality academic training that meets current social and labour needs
Bringing progress to society
Promoting research, development and innovation
Facilitating the use of new technologies
Understanding intergenerational and multicultural
Promoting the vocational integration of students
Opening our doors to everybody, people and collectives whose participation enriches us
Projecting the school internationally
Contributing to the personal development of our students from diversity

Why Elisava?

Maybe you're wondering why you should choose Elisava and not another school, maybe you need a list of reasons to convince yourself... well, here they are:

More than 50 years of experience (we have trained more than 17,000 students) and high international recognition
Prestigious teachers (about 800 trainers)
Interdisciplinarity and feedback between design and engineering
Research and innovation as engines
Multiple offers to expand your training
Full facilities with state of the art technology
Many laboratories and workshops to practice what you have learnt
International collaboration with companies, institutions and NGOs to get in touch with the professional world
A great community of students and alumni
Privileged location in the heart of Barcelona