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Master in Creative Documentary
Master in Creative Documentary
The Master in Creative Documentary is an international benchmark for its quality, its innovative character, its creative freedom and, above all, for its great ability to train new professionals. In its more than 10 courses, more than 33 documentary films have been produced that have participated in the main national and international festivals.
The Master in Creative Documentary provides a solid preparation, both theoretical and practical, on documentary making and production. It is an international benchmark for its quality, its innovative character, for creative freedom and, above all, for its great ability to train new professionals. Since its inception in 1998, the program has more than demonstrated its ability to transform its students' ideas into film.
Why choose this program
Creating a school
The master has contributed to developing a distinctive cinematographic movement that is represented by former students such as Mercedes Álvarez, Neus Ballús, Renate Costa, Diego Dussuel, Tatiana Guezo, Núria Esquerra, Isaki Lacuesta, Victor Moreno, Lois Patiño, Lupe Pérez, Pilar Monsell and Amanda Villavieja.
More than 33 films made
The master has become an international benchmark in the production of films such as: En Construcción, Mones com la Becky, De nens, Veinte años no es nada, Cravan vs Cravan, Demonstration, Dies d'Agost, Bajarí, or Lo que arde.
Prestigious Director
The master is directed by Jordi Balló, 2005 National Culture Award winner in the film category, professor at UPF since 1993, visiting professor at Stanford University (California) and a key figure in the international panorama of contemporary documentary.
Work with renowned documentary makers
In previous courses, filmmakers of the stature of José Luis Guerin, Claire Simone, Victor Kossakovsky, Audrius Stonys, Sergei Dvortsevoy, Nicolas Philibert, Avi Mograbi, Claude Lanzman, Marcel Lozinski, Frederick Wiseman, or Óliver Laxe, among others, have given classes.
Learn in a practical way
You will collaborate on real projects and develop your own creative documentary that will be evaluated by producers and broadcasters of the European audiovisual scene.
Who is it for?
The Master in Creative Documentary is aimed at audiovisual media professionals and Graduates in Audiovisual Communication and Communication Sciences or from other disciplines interested in training as project promoters, filmmakers, or producers.
Curriculum
The Master in Creative Documentary is structured into 3 subjects and a documentary project that is developed throughout Subjects I and II. The program ends with participation in the initiative projects of the Master.
Subject I: Narrative, aesthetics, history, and perspectives of the documentary
Subject II: Personal project development
Subject III: Participation in the initiative projects of the Master in Creative Documentary
Complementary activities
Subject I aims for students to deepen their theoretical and aesthetic knowledge from documentary tradition to contemporary documentary creation, the contributions of documentary photography, documentary practice, and production and exhibition processes. This subject takes place from January to June 2022, with face-to-face classes from Monday to Thursday from 4 pm to 7 pm. On Fridays, there is projection.
Subject II covers the entire development process of each student's project in the master, working in parallel with Subject I (theoretical) and the progress of the Subject III projects. The work of the Master in Creative Documentary is oriented towards the evolution of each student's personal projects until the moment they are ready for filming. If filmed, the credits of the pieces produced must state that they have been developed within the framework of the Master in Creative Documentary. The development of personal projects will take place from January 2022 to February-June 2023 (date of pitch). The schedule for the tutorials will be set personally between the students and the project tutors.
In Subject III the student will be able to participate in the development of three documentary projects in collaboration with three independent production companies. After the initial period of work with the director, there will be the possibility, depending on the nature of each project and the profile of each student, of joining any of the production phases. This subject will take place from February-June 2023 (date of pitch) until January 2024. The calendar and working hours of each of the projects will depend on the calendar established by the production company itself and the professionals linked to the film. The projects respond to the reality of the film industry, and so the calendar cannot be planned in advance.
Qualification obtained
Once you have passed the program, you will be awarded the title of Master in Creative Documentary, issued by the Pompeu Fabra University.
Faculty
Academic directors
Associate Professor UPF-BSM
Coordinator
Lecturer BSM
- Mercedes Alvarez Lamata
Director and screenwriter for documentary film.
Master in Creative Documentary from Pompeu Fabra University.
She directed films El Cielo gira and Mercado de Futuros, for which she won numerous awards in different international film festivals. - Jordi Ambros Hortensi
Director and co-producer of TV3 documentaries.
He also produced La Plaga (2012), Garbo: El espía (2009) and Món petit (2012). - Luciano Barisone
Journalist and film critic. Director of the Festival Visions du Réel de Nyon.
He was also a member of the jury at different festivals such as the Cannes International Film Festival, Fid Marsella, Bacifi, DocLisboa, Punto de Vista, DocAviv. - Sonia Hermán Dolz
Director and scriptwriter.
Her works have had considerable international film and television projection, and have won numerous awards. Among the most significant are Yo soy así, Lágrimas negras, and The Master and his pupil. She founded production company HastenSlowlyFilms in Rotterdam. - Marie-Pierre Duhamel
Translator and programmer. She is also a producer, film programmer, critic, and lecturer. She directed the Cinéma du Réel Film Festival, organized by the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and was member of the jury at several different film festivals (Venecia, Lussas, DocLisboa, DocumentaMadrid, etc). - José Luis Guerin
Filmmaker.
He has directed films such as Innisfree (1990), Tren de sombras (1997), En construcción (2001, Goya Award for the best documentary feature film), En la ciudad de Sylvia and La Academia de las Musas (2015). - Carlos F. Heredero
Journalist and film critic. Director of the magazine Caimán Cuadernos de Cine.
Formerly head critic of Diario 16 (1988-2001), member of the Editorial Board of magazines Cinema 2002 (1976/1980) and Viridiana (1992/1997), and regular contributor to the magazine Dirigido por (1986-2007). Author of numerous essays, historical studies and monographies on different authors (Sam Peckinpah,John Huston, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Eric Rohmer, José Luis Borau, John Cassavetes, Iván Zulueta, Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, Pedro Beltrán, Montxo Armendáriz, Wong Kar-Kai, Aki Kaurismäki, etc.). - Isaki Lacuesta
Director and scriptwriter.
Master in Creative Documentary from Pompeu Fabra University.
Adjunct lecturer at the Department of Communication of Pompeu Fabra University.
Among others, he has directed Murieron por encima de sus posibilidades, Los Pasos Dobles, La Leyenda del Tiempo, Condenados and Cravan vs Cravan, winners in film festivals such as Sitges and San Sebastián. In 2012 he was won the National Film Award of the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government). - Joan Fontcuberta Villa
Photographer, teacher, essayist and photography historian.
Bachelor in Information Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Lecturer of Audiovisual Communication Studies at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and Harvard University in Cambridge (Massachusetts). He is also chief editor of the magazine Photovisión that he co-founded in 1980, and former artistic director of the Rencontres Internationales de Photographie d'Arles. Author of internationally renowned photography series such as Fauna, Sputnik, Constel·lacions, and the more recent Securitas. - Pere Freixa
PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona.
Senior lecturer at the Department of Communication of Pompeu Fabra University.
He has also participated in, coordinated and directed different courses in digital imagery and photography. As a researcher, he is member of Digidoc, Research Group for Digital Documentation and Interactive Communication at Pompeu Fabra University. - Thierry Garrel
Actor, co-producer and director. He currently gives seminars on the subject of documentaries.
He was also former director of documentaries on TV Arte and has contributed to the production of some of the most outstanding recent Spanish documentaries such as Gaudí (1988), Innisfree (1989), Granados y Delgado, un crimen legal (1996) and En construcción (2001). - Luciano Giovanni Rigolini
Photographer, director and producer.
He has formed part of the Art Documentaries Unit production team since 1996 from where he directs La Lucarne, one of the most active and relevant creative documentary programs in Europe. He has produced works by filmmakers such as Alexander Sokurov, Sergei Dvortsevoy, Naomi Kawase and Chantal Akerman. - J. Carles Guerra Rojas
Artist, art critic and freelance curator.
PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona.
Adjunct lecturer at the Department of Communication of Pompeu Fabra University.
Former director of the Virreina Image Centre (2009-2011) and Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona MACBA (2011-2013). He was also member of the Greenroom Project, involving the analysis of contemporary documentary practices at the Center for Curatorial Studies of Bard College, New York. - Victor Kossakovsky
Director of documentary film.
He has directed 10 films that have won more than 100 awards: Losev, The other day, The Belovs, Wednesday, Pavel and Lyalya, I loved you…, Tishe!, Svyato, Vivan las Antípodas! and Demonstration, an initiative of the Master in Creative Documentary. - Andrés Hispano
Film and television director and scriptwriter, historian and film critic.
Bachelor in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona.
Lecturer at the Department of Communication of Pompeu Fabra University.
He has also published several books on film. He has written and directed experimental film programs for Canal Plus and numerous programs about films, music, and video clips for BTV. - Ricardo Iscar Alvarez
Documentary film maker and teacher.
He was also on the Jury at several festivals (documentary in Malaga, newcomers in Nyón, short animation in Dresdén, L'Alternativa in Barcelona). He has coordinated different production workshops in Barcelona and Atlantidoc (Uruguay). His extensive filmography has gained him distinctions at festivals such as Berlín, BAFICI, Malaga and Kiev. He has also worked in Photography, Sound and Montage for films by other directors. Highlights of his career include documentaries A la orilla del río, Badu. Historias del desierto del Negev, La Punta del Moral, El Cerco y Tierra Negra and El Foso. - Margarita Ledo Andion
Journalist, and writer in the Galician language.
Professor of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising at the Faculty of Information Sciences of the University of Santiago de Compostela. - Carlos Muguiro
Director and scriptwriter.
Lecturer at the Department of Audiovisual Culture and Communication of the University of Navarra.
He has a long background in the study of documentary filmmaking, and was involved in cultural programming in festivals as well as professional practice.
This includes editing books on Japanese documentary, Soviet documentaries, and on filmmakers such as Alan Berliner and Ermano Olmi, as well as collaboration in collective books and magazines - Aví Mograbi
Director of documentaries and video artist.
Committed to political, cultural and social justice in the Middle East, among others he directed Once I Entered a Garden, Mrs. Goldstein, Will you please stop bothering me and my family, Happy Birthday, Mr. Mograbi, Happy Birthday and Deportation - Nicholas Philibert
Director of documentaries.
His most well-known works include La ville Louvre, Le pays des sourds, Un animal, des animaux, La moindre des choses and Être et avoir, which was a great box-office success. - Oscar Pérez Ramírez
Director and producer at Getsemaní Produccions.
Bachelor in Film Practice from the London College of Communication (United Kingdom).
He was also part of the jury at documentary film festivals IDFA (Amsterdam), DocLisboa (Portugal) and MFF (Bosnia). His productions include, Salve Melilla and El Madrid, El Sastre, If the Camera blows up and Hollywood Talkies, co-directed with Mia Ribot. - Paco Poch
Member of the Catalan Film Academy, producer and distributor.
PhD in Social Communication from Pompeu Fabra University.
Lecturer of Audiovisual Communication Studies at Pompeu Fabra University.
He also produced two essential documentary films in Catalan film, Gaudí (1988) by Manuel Huerga and Innisfree, by José Luis Guerín. Director of production company Mallerich Audiovisuals. He produced El caso Pinochet (2001), by Patricio Guzmán, Buenaventura Durruti, anarquista, by Jean-Louis Comolli, and Cravan vs Cravan, by Isaki Lacuesta. As a distributor, he introduced film makers such as Béla Tarr, Pedro Costa, Mia Hannsen-Love (Le père de mes enfants) and Bruno Dumont (Camille Claudel). - Angel Quintana Morraja
Film critic.
PhD in Communication Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Lecturer in History and Film Theory at the University of Girona. - Elena Oroz
Researcher, teacher and film critic.
PhD in Communication from Rovira i Virgili University (Tarragona).
She was also co-founder, co-director and editor for non-fiction online magazine Blogs&Docs (www.blogsandocs.com) up until March 2012. She has collaborated with magazines such as Scope, Travelling, Cahiers du Cinema – España, Caimán Cuadernos de Cine, La Vanguardia, numerocero.es, Archivos de la Filmoteca and Secuencias. History of Film magazine. - Frederick Wiseman
Director of documentaries and theatre.
His films are investigations into the exercise of power in American society, through filming the dark side of its institutions. He is author of many renowned documentaries including Titicut Follies (1967), High School (1968), Law and Order (1969), Welfare (1975), Model (1980) and Public Housing (1997). - Tue Steen Muller
Independent international consultant for documentary film.
He also worked for the Danish Film Board for over 20 years as head of distribution and commissioning editor for documentaries. He was director of the EDN, European Documentary Network for 10 years. - Andrius Stonys
Independent filmmaker and producer.
Methodology
The teaching and learning methodology in the Master in Creative Documentary combines theory with practice. The student's own documentary project will be developed and presented in a pitch organized by the master.
Combination of theory and practice
The sessions combine theoretical knowledge and practical application, which allows you to see in depth the challenges that documentary professionals encounter on a daily basis.
Connection with professional reality
The program has had a great impact on the sector: 73 projects by students on the master have ended up being made, together with 33 films by established and new directors promoted by the master. All of them have been awarded at the best international festivals (Cannes, Locarno, IDFA, FID, among others).
Real internships
Students participate directly on the conception and realization of documentaries by filmmakers and/or novices, while they are developing their own project in parallel. There is no simulation, they are works of great impact in the real world and can change things. This transmission model has been a reference for other universities and training and creation centres around the world.
Evaluation
Presentation of the developed written project, with an audiovisual teaser and a production plan, in a final pitch in front of a panel made up of professionals from the sector.
A theoretical work, which relates the seminar of Module 1 'Tour of the cinema of reality' with reflection on the staging of each project.
Tools
Project-oriented learning and the combination of lectures and active methodologies such as case studies, flipped learning, solving real problems and professional simulations allow the student to connect theory and practice, acquire advanced skills and achieve learning which is transferable to work.
You will have:
- Master's or postgraduate work to learn by doing
- A personal mentor to monitor your Master's Final Project (TFM) or Postgraduate Final Project (TFP)
- Digital resources to achieve transversal skills
- Interdisciplinary activities and workshops
Professional Future
On the Master in Creative Documentary you will share a classroom with national and international students and you will learn to examine new models of production, current and real. You will also undertake your own documentary project in collaboration with producers and broadcasters of the European audiovisual scene. You will be able to participate in the development and production of a documentary feature film and create your own documentary at the end of the master.
Student profile
You will share a classroom with students from different national and international origins, which will allow you to grow not only academically, but also culturally and personally. Our students come from various academic backgrounds and professions. This contributes to creating a multidisciplinary and collaborative spirit, enriching for all.
Career opportunities
At the end of the master, thanks to the training received and participation in real projects, students will be able to join different positions in the cinema and audiovisual sector, with a special focus on the field of the documentary genre.
- Project Producer
- Audiovisual editing
- Production
- Director of photography
- Director's Assistant
- Cultural Management
- Film management
Admission and enrolment
Our admission process consists of a rigorous evaluation of each application to preserve the quality of the group as well as the training, experience, and work capacity of all students.
Who can apply?
University graduates in Audiovisual Communication, in Fine Arts, in Journalism, in Communication Sciences or in other degrees at this university level related to these fields.
It will be an essential requirement to submit an idea for the project from which the pre-registered participants will be selected, an idea to be developed in a minimum of two pages.
Those participants who do not have Spanish as one of their mother tongues or who did not have it as a teaching language in their training studies, must prove that they have at least a B2 level of Spanish (Common European Framework of Reference), as well as fluently take part in a personal interview with the academic director, if necessary.
How to apply?
To apply for admission to this program, students must read and accept the Terms and Conditions of Contract once they start the application for admission through the following form.
Application for admission
Complete your application within the next admission rounds:
| Round | Application deadline | Admission resolution |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11/11/2020 | 26/11/2020 |
| 2 | 03/12/2020 | 18/12/2020 |
| 3 | 17/12/2020 | 31/12/2020 |
| 4 | 12/01/2021 | 28/01/2021 |
| 5 | 02/02/2021 | 17/02/2021 |
| 6 | 23/02/2021 | 10/03/2021 |
| 7 | 16/03/2021 | 31/03/2021 |
| 8 | 08/04/2021 | 23/04/2021 |
| 9 | 27/04/2021 | 12/05/2021 |
| 10 | 13/05/2021 | 28/05/2021 |
| 11 | 27/05/2021 | 11/06/2021 |
| 12 | 08/06/2021 | 23/06/2021 |
| 13 | 22/06/2021 | 07/07/2021 |
| 14 | 06/07/2021 | 21/07/2021 |
| 15 | 20/07/2021 | 30/07/2021 |
| 16 | 02/09/2021 | 17/09/2021 |
| 17 | 16/09/2021 | 01/10/2021 |
| 18 | 05/10/2021 | 20/10/2021 |
| 19 | 21/10/2021 | 05/11/2021 |
Applications for admission will be evaluated when you complete the following steps:
- Complete the online admission form.
- Pay the €120 admission fee. This amount will be returned if you are not admitted.
- Send the following documents through the online platform e-registrar:
- Presentation letter or video
- CV
- Scanned copy of university degree (if you are in the last year of your degree, you can provide your academic records)
- Scanned copy of Transcript of Records. Make sure that it includes your GPA (Grade Point Average)
- Scanned copy of ID Card or Passport
- Passport-size photo (jpg format)
Additional documents may be requested in certain cases.
Application rounds are subject to the number of places available on the program.
Admission
- The Admissions Committee will select the candidates on the basis of a personal or CV-based interview.
- You will be notified of the admission decision in writing.
Enrolment
- Registration must be paid within a 15 days after the admission.
- Once the letter of acceptance to the program has been received, you will need to submit the following original documents before the course begins:
- Stamped and/or authenticated photocopy of your university degree.
- If you have a foreign degree you may need to submit additional documents.
- Paying the reservation fee (25% of the program's tuition fees) is essential in order to reserve your place
- If you pay the tuition fees by bank transfer you will be required to introduce the program code. The program code for this course is 1013.
- The remaining tuition fees must be paid 2 weeks before the start of the course.
Grants, scholarships and financing
Scholarships
The UPF Barcelona School of Management offers you different means of financing so that you can take any of our programs without worry. We offer you the opportunity to finance part of your program, either by rewarding your talent through scholarships, through grants from entities dedicated to promoting education or through collaboration agreements with financial entities.
Talent Scholarship
Apply for one of our Talent Scholarships, specifically awarded to master students who can demonstrate an exceptional academic, professional or personal trajectory.
UPF Barcelona School of Management, through the UPF's Institute of Continuing Education Foundation, annually awards scholarships to finance master's studies to students who can demonstrate their talent and motivation. The Talent Scholarships cover 25% of the total tuition fee. Exceptionally, the Scholarship Award Committee, may decide to extend this amount up to 50%. Likewise, and accrediting a difficult economic situation, the percentage of the scholarship could be extended up to 75%.
- You must have completed a university qualification.
- You must have obtained in your undergraduate studies a minimum GPA (Grade Point Average) of 3.0 out of 4.0 (the Scholarship Committee reserves the right to determine a different minimum GPA according to your home country's grading system). You can check here your Bachelor's Degree average score equivalence
- You must have applied for admission into one of the master's offered by the UPF Barcelona School of Management (except the Official Master's Programme in Advocacy or those master's in which the enrolment process is external to the UPF Barcelona School of Management).
Please note that your application must meet all documentation requirements and deadlines. Otherwise it will not be evaluated.
- Submit your application for the Talent Scholarship via the "Application form" of the programme that you are interested in.
- Submit the documentation detailed below via the "Scholarships and Funding" section of the platform, to which you will be given access when applying:
- Letter of motivation. Tell us why you request the Talent Scholarship and why you think you are a good candidate to be awarded.
- List of merits. Download our template. Remember to provide the information that accredits your merits.
- A complete transcript of records of your undergraduate studies with your GPA (if presenting a non-Spanish transcript of records, and only if the scale of grades does not appear, include an official certificate conversion chart or a scale, with the minimum passing grade, corresponding to the educational system of the country in which the degree was issued).
All documents except for the academic transcript must be in either Catalan, Spanish or English. The academic transcript can be presented in Catalan, Spanish, English, French, Italian or Portuguese. If it is another language it must be accompanied by a sworn official translation into Catalan or Spanish.
If you wish to apply for an increased scholarship due to your economic situation you must expressly request this and provide additional documentation.
In some cases, candidates will be called for interview, either in person or by telephone or Skype. If necessary, we will contact you in order to schedule an interview.
Talent Scholarships are not compatible with the UPF Alumni's discounts, nor with the UPF Barcelona School of Management Alumni discounts.
Talent Scholarships are applied for and awarded according to the dates outlined below. The funds available in each call for applications diminish as the dates advance. Therefore, the earlier you apply for a Talent Scholarship, the more likely you are to be awarded one.
Programmes for the academic year 2021-2022:
- Scholarship application deadline: 03/12/2020, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 14/12/2020
- Scholarship application deadline: 12/01/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 25/01/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 23/02/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 08/03/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 08/04/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 19/04/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 13/05/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 24/05/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 08/06/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 21/06/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 06/07/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 27/07/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 20/07/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 27/07/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 02/09/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 13/09/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 05/10/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 18/10/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 21/10/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 01/11/2021
The number of rounds is subject to the availability of funds, so if the funds are exhausted in previous rounds, later rounds will be cancelled.
The Talent Scholarship Committee reserves the right to transfer funds to other applications' deadlines if they have not been assigned.
Please bear in mind that scholarship applications have to be made at the same time as completing your application for the programme and always before classes begin. Talent Scholarships cannot be processed for a master's programme that has already begun.
Equally, applications presented after the deadlines of the established rounds will not be accepted, even if classes have not yet begun.
If you have any questions about how to apply for a Talent Scholarship, do not hesitate to contact our Scholarship Information Office. You can also consult our competition rules on the official DOGC Núm. 7518 del 18.12.2017. You can find information about the taxation of the scholarship in the FAQ's.
Partner Talent Scholarship
If you are a graduated from one of the UPF Barcelona School of Management partner universities you can apply to the Partner Universities Scholarships.
UPF Barcelona School of Management, through the UPF's Institute of Continuing Education Foundation, annually awards scholarships to finance master's studies to students who can demonstrate their talent and motivation. The Partner Talent Scholarships cover 25% of the total tuition fee. Exceptionally, the Scholarship Award Committee, may decide to extend this amount up to 50%. Likewise, and accrediting a difficult economic situation, the percentage of the scholarship could be extended up to 75%.
- You must have completed a university qualification in one of the UPF Barcelona School of Management partner universities included in the Annex I of Official Bulletin.
- You must have obtained in your undergraduate studies a minimum GPA (Grade Point Average) of 3.0 out of 4.0 (the Scholarship Committee reserves the right to determine a different minimum GPA according to your home country's grading system).
- You must have applied for admission into one of the master's offered by the UPF Barcelona School of Management (except the Official Master's Programme in Advocacy or those master's in which the enrolment process is external to the UPF Barcelona School of Management).
Please note that your application must meet all documentation requirements and deadlines. Otherwise it will not be evaluated.
- Submit your application for the Partner Talent Scholarship via the "Application form" of the programme that you are interested in.
- Submit the documentation detailed below via the "Scholarships and Funding" section of the platform, to which you will be given access when applying:
- Letter of motivation. Tell us why you request the Talent Scholarship and why you think you are a good candidate to be awarded.
- List of merits. Download our template. Remember to provide the information that accredits your merits.
- A complete transcript of records of your undergraduate studies with your GPA (if presenting a non-Spanish transcript of records, and only if the scale of grades does not appear, include an official certificate conversion chart or a scale corresponding to the educational system of the country in which the degree was issued).
All documents except for the academic transcript must be in either Catalan, Spanish or English. The academic transcript can be presented in Catalan, Spanish, English, French, Italian or Portuguese. If it is another language it must be accompanied by a sworn official translation into Catalan or Spanish.
In some cases, candidates will be called for interview, either in person or by telephone or Skype. If necessary, we will contact you in order to schedule an interview.
Partner Talent Scholarships are not compatible with the UPF Alumni's discounts, nor with the UPF Barcelona School of Management Alumni discounts.
Partner Talent Scholarships are applied for and awarded according to the dates outlined below. The funds available in each call for applications diminish as the dates advance. Therefore, the earlier you apply for a Partner Talent Scholarship, the more likely you are to be awarded one.
Programmes for the academic year 2021-2022:
- Scholarship application deadline: 03/12/2020, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 14/12/2020
- Scholarship application deadline: 12/01/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 25/01/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 23/02/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 08/03/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 08/04/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 19/04/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 13/05/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 24/05/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 08/06/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 21/06/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 06/07/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 27/07/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 20/07/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 27/07/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 02/09/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 13/09/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 05/10/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 18/10/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 21/10/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 01/11/2021
The number of rounds is subject to the availability of funds, so if the funds are exhausted in previous rounds, later rounds will be cancelled.
The Partner Talent Scholarship Committee reserves the right to transfer funds to other applications' deadlines if they have not been assigned.
Please bear in mind that scholarship applications have to be made at the same time as completing your application for the programme and always before classes begin. Partner Talent Scholarships cannot be processed for a master's programme that has already begun.
Equally, applications presented after the deadlines of the established rounds will not be accepted, even if classes have not yet begun.
If you have any questions about how to apply for a Partner Talent Scholarships, do not hesitate to contact our Scholarship Information Office. You can also consult our competition rules on the Official Bulletin. You can find information about the taxation of the scholarship in the FAQ's.
Beca UPF-BSM
Apply for one of our UPF-BSM Scholarships, awarded specifically to Pompeu Fabra University students with a good academic record.
If you are studying your last undergraduate course (4th year) at UPF or at a UPF Group centre and you have a good record, you can apply for a UPF-BSM scholarship. Remember that you must be a graduate and be in possession of your degree (or failing that, the certificate of receipt) when you start the program in which you have enrolled.
- Be in the last undergraduate year at UPF.
- Have a good academic record.
- Have been admitted or are in the process of admission to a Master or Postgraduate course for which you are applying for this Scholarship.
- Apply for the Scholarship at the time of application for admission.
- Submit a motivation letter with the reasons why you have opted for the Scholarship and a list of verifiable merits.
- Upload the required documentation through the eRegistrar platform
- The dates of awarding or denying of the Scholarship will be published on the website.
- The scholarship candidate will personally receive a communication with the procedures to follow in order to formalize it.
- The Scholarship Committee assesses academic talent (average grade of the report) and personal talent (the motivation of the candidate and their merits).
- The UPF-BSM Scholarships are not compatible with specific aid for the programs, scholarships granted by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, and other UPF-BSM scholarships.
- They are compatible with other scholarships from organizations outside the UPF-BSM and with discounts for large families.
They are applied for and granted in accordance with the dates stipulated below:
Academic year programs 2020–21 and 2021–22
- Scholarship application deadline: 03/12/2020, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 14/12/2020
- Scholarship application deadline: 12/01/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 25/01/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 23/02/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 08/03/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 08/04/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 19/04/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 13/05/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 24/05/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 08/06/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 21/06/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 06/07/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 27/07/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 20/07/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 27/07/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 02/09/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 13/09/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 05/10/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 18/10/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 21/10/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 01/11/2021
Remember that you must apply for the scholarship when you complete the application for admission to the program that interests you and always before classes start. The Scholarship cannot be processed for a program that is already being studied.
If you have any questions about how to apply for the UPF-BSM Scholarships, you can contact our scholarship secretariat via email.
Social Value Scholarships
UPF Barcelona School of Management, for this next academic year, and aiming at the commitment for social welfare, offers the Social Value Scholarships with the objective of supporting and favoring the groups that the School considers a priority. Enter and consult the details.
These scholarships are intended to favor specific groups, to help them in their professional and personal development or people who are in a situation of economic difficulty.
The Social Value Scholarship program covers from 25% to 70% of the total tuition fee for the master's degree and from 25% to 50% of the total tuition fee for the diploma or postgraduate course for all the programs offered by the Institute of Continuing Education Foundation.
The University Master's Degree in Law and any other master’s degree carried out in conjunction with an institution outside the UPF-BSM are excluded. Also excluded are programs for which the interested party wishes to carry out any recognition. Repeating students will also not be eligible for the scholarship.
- "Impulsa MUJER" (“Promote Woman”)
Aimed at all professional women, from any environment, who wish to study a management program in any area of the company, to occupy leadership positions or to lead a professional project.
Sporty woman: Specifically addressed at professional sportswomen interested in studying the master’s degree in Sports Management in any of its modalities. - "Post COVID boost"
Aimed at people over 40 who are unemployed or in ERTE. ERTE is a term used in Spain to refer to the suspension for a specific time of the labor contract of part or all the workers of a company due to force majeure. This temporary suspension of the contract has been applied in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic and remains in effect until the Government and the Employer decide. - "Entrepreneur Scholarship for local economy"
Aimed at entrepreneurs and small businesses with a direct impact on the local economy and regions that need specific training to boost business.
- You must have applied for admission into one of the master's offered by the UPF Barcelona School of Management (except the Official Master's Program in Advocacy or those master's) and have been admitted to the program for which the grant is being requested.
- Present a letter of motivation with the reasons why you are applying for the scholarship with a list of merits or outstanding aspects that can be contrasted.
Consult the specific criteria for each of the modalities in the rules.
Submit your application for the Social Value Scholarship via the "Application form" of the program that you are interested in.
Submit the documentation via the "Scholarships and Funding" section of the eRegistar platform, to which you will be given access when applying
Please note that your application must meet all the requirements for both documentation and deadlines. Otherwise, it cannot be evaluated.
All documents except for the academic transcript must be in either Catalan, Spanish or English. The academic transcript can be presented in Catalan, Spanish, English, French, Italian or Portuguese. If it is another language it must be accompanied by a sworn official translation into Catalan or Spanish.
Social Value Scholarship applications have to be made at the same time as completing your application for the program and always before classes begin. Social Value Scholarships cannot be processed for a master's program that has already begun.
Equally, applications presented after the deadlines of the established rounds will not be accepted, even if classes have not yet begun.
Social Value Scholarship are applied for and awarded according to the dates outlined below.:
Programmes for the academic year 2021-2022
- Scholarship application deadline: 12/01/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 25/01/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 23/02/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 08/03/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 08/04/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 19/04/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 13/05/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 24/05/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 08/06/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 21/06/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 20/07/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 27/07/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 02/09/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 13/09/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 05/10/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 18/10/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 21/10/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 01/11/2021
The Scholarship Committee will only award Social Value Scholarships to those applicants who, having completed the corresponding documentation and been finally admitted to the program for which they are applying, have passed the various tests that may be requested and meet the criteria established in each established typology in which they wish to enter.
The Scholarship Committee will inform each applicant of the decision individually by e-mail, following the dates published on the website.
If you have any questions about how to apply for a Talent Scholarship, do not hesitate to contact our Scholarship Information Office. You can also consult the competition rules here.
Grants and discounts
External financial aid
A large number of external entities and institutions offer financial aid options to students who want to enrol on one of our master programs and postgraduate courses.
A large number of external entities and institutions offer financial aid options to students who want to enrol on one of our master programs and postgraduate courses. If you want to apply for any of these financial aid options you will have to deal directly with the awarding entity. These options are compatible with any other program-specific aid option of your master program or postgraduate course but not with the Talent or the Partner Universities Scholarships.
Spanish Public Financial Aid for Official Master's Degrees
- General scholarships of Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport: The call is aimed at offering tuition aids and different concepts
- Basque Country Scholarships: The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport allocates part of the Basque Country's budget to educational scholarships. These scholarships are aimed at Basque students who wish
External Financial Aid
- MAEC-AECID Scholarships: Scholarships for Spanish and foreign citizens who wish to study in Spain (and abroad).
- Fulbright Scholarships: The Fulbright Program is a competitive program of grants for students, which is aimed at encouraging the exchange of American graduate students with those of other countries involved in the program for the purposes of research, study or teaching.
- UNESCO Scholarships: Short stays in other countries to allow postgraduate students to specialize.
- "la Caixa" Social Foundation: Grants for official master degree studies in Spain.
- Portal Ploteus: EU grants for non-EU citizens to study in Europe.
- Portal Universia: Spanish and Latin American portal for information on grants.
- Santander Scholarships: Over 30.000 scholarships, study grants and internships for students coming from Germany, Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, the United States, Spain, Mexico, Portugal, the UK and Uruguay.
- Erasmus+ Master's Degree Loan
Financial Aid by country
- Chile: AGCI, CONICYT
- Colombia: Colfuturo, ICETEX
- Egipto: Qalaa Holdings Scholarship Foundation
- Ecuador: Senescyt
- Guatemala: Guatefuturo
- Iberoamérica: Programa Ibermedia
- México: Coordinación Nacional de Becas de Educación Superior, FIDERH, Fonca, FUNED
- Panamá: IFARHU
- Perú: IPFE, RetoExcelencia
- República Dominicana: FUNDAPEC
Alumni discounts
If you are a member of our alumni associations or of one of our partner universities, we offer you a series of applicable discounts on the amount of tuition for your program.
- UPF Barcelona School of Management or UPF-IDEC Alumni: If you have previously studied at UPF Barcelona School of Management or UPF-IDEC a 15 credits (or more) program and you decide to take on a new program with us, you are entitled to a discount of 20% on your program tuition fees. It is required to be registered in the Alumni network of the UPF Barcelona School of Management upon your application. This discount is not applicable to short courses and postgraduate courses which are part of the same itinerary.
- UPF Alumni: If you have previously studied a degree, a master program or a doctoral program at Pompeu Fabra University, you are entitled to a discount of 15% on the UPF Barcelona School of Management Masters and postgraduated program tuition fees (those programs with more than 15 credits) beginning on or after 01/01/2019.
- ESCI-UPF and Tecnocampus Alumni: If you have previously studied a degree or a master at ESCI-UPF or Tecnocampus, you are entitled to a discount of 15% on the UPF Barcelona School of Management Masters and postgraduated program tuition fees (those programs with more than 15 credits).
UPF Employee Discounts
If you are a member or family member of an employee of the UPF group or belonged to the collaborating institutions of the UPF Barcelona School of Management, you can enjoy a series of applicable discounts on the tuition fees for your program.
- Administrative and Service Staff (PAS) of Pompeu Fabra University. You are entitled to a 35% discount on tuition fees for open programs subject to prior communication from the rector's office and/or the UPF general manager's office.
- Administrative and Service Staff (PAS) and Teaching and Research Staff (PDI) of the UPF Group. Discount of 20% on tuition fees for open programs.
- Relatives (up to second degree) of UPF and the UPF's Institute of Continuing Education's Foundation teaching and research staff (PAS and PDI, in Spanish). Discount of 20% on tuition fees for open programs.
- If you work at a company member of the Institute of Continuing Education Foundation's Board of Trustees or at any of our councils' companies. Discount of 20% on the tuition fees of our master's and postgraduate courses.
UPF Partner Latinoamerican Universities Discount
If you are alumni of one of our Partner Universities, you are entitled to a discount of 10% on the UPF Barcelona School of Management Masters and postgraduate program tuition fees (those programs with more than 15 credits).
Funding
Financing simulator
You can choose how to finance your studies by consulting our simulator and receive an answer in less than 24 hours.
Collaborating entities
In addition, UPF Barcelona School of Management collaborates with various banks and financial entities which provide study loans on favorable terms. For more information you can contact any of the following links (in Spanish).
Note, however, that in order to benefit from these special conditions you must have a NIE if you are not a European Citizen. Therefore, UPF Barcelona School of Management strongly recommends international students to seek first for students loans at bank entities of their country of origin, or to search for funding opportunities through international entities.
The Agency for Management of University and Research Grants of Catalonia (AGAUR, in Spanish) also offers loans to university students with legal residence in Catalonia through the PREPOST program.
Language: Spanish
Price: 8900€