Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
The Universitat Politècnica de València is a public, dynamic and innovative institution dedicated to research and teaching that, while maintaining strong bonds with the social environment in which it carries out its activities, advocates for a solid presence abroad. It is a young university, which celebrates its 50th anniversary during the 2018-2019 academic year.
Its community is made up of around 34,000 students, 3,600 lecturers and researchers and 1,500 administration and services professionals distributed among its three campuses located in Alcoi, Gandia and València.
At present, the UPV comprises 13 university centres, of which nine are higher technical schools, two are faculties and another two, higher polytechnic schools. In addition, it has a Doctoral School and three affiliated centres (Florida University, Berklee College of Music and EDEM Business School).
Inside of the UPV, the School of Fine Arts in Valencia was established in 1971 and was attached to the Polytechnic University of Valencia in 1978. It is a place where education in visual and plastic arts is received in a broad, integral, innovative and technological way, responding to the social demands in our community. On the one hand, it combines traditional techniques, methods and practices that we can learn with the knowledge of history On the other hand, that which modernity has contributed related to the diversity of new genres and languages, which puts artistic practices in a situation of difficult cataloguing and which in turn opens up an immense range of possibilities for expression. It is constituted by the Departments of Sculpture, Painting, Drawing and History of Art and there are currently three Official Degrees; Degree in Fine Arts, Degree in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Assets and the Degree in Design and Creative Technologies with objectives that are part of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). Along with the Bachelor’s degree, other postgraduate studies are offeres, such as the Master’s Degree in Visual Arts and Multimedia or PhD programs.
Link: https://www.upv.es/