POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MADRID (UPM)

More than 2.400 researchers carry out their activities at the UPM, grouped in more than 200 Research Groups, 20 Research Centers or Institutes and 55 Laboratories, all of them committed to transform the knowledge generated into innovation advances applied to the productive sector, contributing to solve the challenges of the European citizens. The intense collaboration with governmental bodies and industry guarantees that research at UPM offers real solutions to real-world problems.

The dynamism of R&D&I activity at the UPM, together with the transfer of knowledge to society, are among its lines of strategy. These two commitments place UPM among the Spanish universities with the greatest research activity, both at national and international level, counting on an International R&I Projects Office that helps and support researchers in the international research arena. Thus, UPM has ranked as the first university in Spain participating in Horizon 2020, with more than 100M€. Therefore, UPM highly innovation-driven commitment is showed by the application of around 40 patents/year thanks to its Technology Transfer Office and by the generation of around 20 spinoffs/year (70% survival rate) trained and mentored by the UPM Center for Innovation Support. Moreover, UPM is highly committed to communication and outreach with an specific unit devoted to it.

All this shows that UPM is an institution committed to the transfer of knowledge generated through its research structures to society, and its transformation into advances and technological developments applied to the productive sector.