Postgraduate in Blockchain and other DLT Technologies
Postgraduate in Blockchain and other DLT Technologies
25 MAY 2022
Online
The Postgraduate Course in Blockchain and other DLT technologies is the only program that integrates the technological, legal, and business aspects necessary to build new systems and fintech businesses, and provides a complete overview of the different areas that make up blockchain technology and smart contracts, and their impact on organizations.
DLT and crypto technologies are generating new forms of integration and business interrelation based on smart contracts and the cryptoeconomy, where the borders of organizations and knowledge are blurred creating complex ecosystems around blockchain and payments technology. In this context, fintech companies need multidisciplinary professionals who know blockchain technologies and who can work as a team to solve problems or achieve common goals that cannot be achieved individually or with only a specialization in programming, economics, or applications.
Why choose this program
Get a comprehensive overview: technological, legal, and business
You will be able to delve into and understand in detail the fundamentals of technology to be able to generate the new blockchain and crypto labour systems, thanks to a complete overview of the different areas that make up the fintech industry: technological, legal, and business. You will be able to create, from the three approaches, business models, systems and applications with an innovative business logic based on decentralized technologies, data, cryptoeconomics, Smart Contracts and decentralized Apps.
Expand your network of contacts
In an area as novel as blockchain, cryptoeconomics, and cybersecurity, you will have the opportunity to create a network of contacts with entrepreneurs from the most cutting-edge companies in Spain, whose members participate as teachers on this program in blockchain technology (Alastria, Izertis, etc.)
Learn from excellent teachers
The teaching team is made up of highly reputed academics in the blockchain technology sector, as well as experts whose day-to-day lives are directly related to blockchain, cryptocurrencies, p2p networks, and other DLT technologies.
Who is it for?
The program is aimed at senior and junior professionals who come from different sectors (Banking and FinTech, consultants, lawyers, engineers, etc.) with an interest in understanding the challenges and new systems of blockchain technology that affect their companies and start-ups in the field of cybersecurity.
Curriculum
The Postgraduate in Blockchain and other DLT Technologies is structured into 3 blocks on technology fundamentals that cover the three pillars or areas on which the program is based: Technology, Business, and Legal.
Blockchain, DLT technologies, and cryptography
DLT-based business ecosystems
Legal and tax impact of DLT technologies and cryptoassets
Postgraduate Final Project
Qualification obtained
Once you have passed the program, you will be awarded the degree of Curso de Postgrado en Blockchain y otras Tecnologías DLT, issued by Pompeu Fabra University.
Faculty
The teaching team of the Postgraduate in Blockchain and other DLT Technologies is made up of both highly reputable academics and professionals with entrepreneurial, financial, and innovative talent who participate in cryptoeconomics, as well as in projects, start-ups, and pioneering companies in blockchain and economics in Spain such as Alastria and Izertis.
Academic directors
Senior Lecturer UPF-BSM
Director of the Academic Department of Finance & Control
Faculty
Senior Lecturer UPF-BSM
Director of the Academic Department of Finance & Control
Expert in digital transformation.
UPF with dedication to UPF-BSM
Associate Professor UPF
Methodology
Teaching modality with students in face-to-face classes. The program of our university includes professional theoretical training on the blockchain ecosystem with masterclasses and also the possibility of tutoring sessions with professors specialized in blockchain technologies.
In addition to the Postgraduate Final Project, group and individual work, presentations, and practice will be carried out to deepen the concepts explained in class with their application to real cases.
Multidisciplinary approach
The credits offer the integration of technological, legal, financial, and business knowledge necessary for the application of this technology in new systems and businesses.
White Paper
Development of a real business project where you can apply the methodology and skills acquired throughout the course.
Work and presentations
Both in groups and individually, which allows you to enrich yourself with the financial knowledge of other students and create, together with the teachers, a network of contacts within the blockchain area.
Evaluation
The evaluation will be based on the weighted average of the final exam, group work, class participation, and the Postgraduate Final Project.
To pass the program, you must attend 80% of the classes.
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
The methodology and contents of the Postgraduate Course in Blockchain and other DLT Technologies helps and guides you from the first moment right up to the professional level to understand new business paradigms, cryptocurrencies, and the implication of blockchain technology, training you in a wide variety of credits as a multidisciplinary professional capable of participating in cutting-edge projects.
Student profile
The postgraduate program brings together students, start-ups and entrepreneurs who come mainly from the three areas of new technologies that make up the postgraduate content and credits. For this reason, both Law and Finance professionals meet in the classroom, as participants whose profile and professional experience is linked to the field of information technology, business, and technology.
Career opportunities
The postgraduate methodology prepares students to understand the challenges and new business models that affect their companies and start-ups and the financial environment at a professional level, so that they are able to manage projects with experience and with the application of these new DLT technologies. The program allows for extracurricular internships.
Any position that participates in a project to implement new technologies, smart contracts, and blockchain solutions in your company, business, organization, and other entrepreneurial and payment projects. Due to the complexity and novelty of this area, blockchain experts are expected to participate in multidisciplinary working groups linked to the information technology sector.
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?
You need to be a university graduate.
Other candidates without the required university degree may take part in the selection process for the courses by virtue of their academic merits, professional experience, and the place of work they occupy.
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.
A level of English that allows for oral and written comprehension is required, since materials in English will be used.
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 | 10/11/2021 | 25/11/2021 |
| 2 | 01/12/2021 | 16/12/2021 |
| 3 | 16/12/2021 | 31/12/2021 |
| 4 | 12/01/2022 | 27/01/2022 |
| 5 | 02/02/2022 | 17/02/2022 |
| 6 | 23/02/2022 | 10/03/2022 |
| 7 | 16/03/2022 | 31/03/2022 |
| 8 | 06/04/2022 | 28/04/2022 |
| 9 | 27/04/2022 | 12/05/2022 |
| 10 | 18/05/2022 | 02/06/2022 |
| 11 | 08/06/2022 | 23/06/2022 |
| 12 | 22/06/2022 | 07/07/2022 |
| 13 | 06/07/2022 | 21/07/2022 |
| 14 | 19/07/2022 | 29/07/2022 |
| 15 | 01/09/2022 | 16/09/2022 |
| 16 | 14/09/2022 | 30/09/2022 |
| 17 | 05/10/2022 | 20/10/2022 |
| 18 | 19/10/2022 | 03/11/2022 |
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 3330.
- 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.
Grants and discounts
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, we collaborate with various entities which provide study loans on favorable terms. For more information you can contact any of the following links.
Language: Spanish
Price: 3400€