ESADE, fully aware of the future need for bigger and better facilities, launched a project to create a new campus in Barcelona.

Taking as reference business parks set in motion by certain universities (e.g. St. John's Park in Cambridge), the idea arose to create the ESADE-Creapolis campus in Sant Cugat del Vallès (Barcelona) as a key component of the project.

The new ESADE Sant Cugat campus has a unique design which will make it stand out amongst other university campuses across Spain and Europe.

The project involves the construction of 19,800 m2 dedicated to university activities and a further 26,800 m2 which will house companies located on the Creapolis campus. In total, 46,600 m2 of state-of-the-art construction.

The new ESADE facilities, located on the site of the current Centro Borja on the outskirts of Sant Cugat, will open during the 2008-2009 academic year.

The Sant Cugat campus will be home to a new ESADE initiative:  a third-generation park - a creativity park - which is the progression of the 1970s technology parks and the scientific parks of the 90s.

Creapolis will house both start-ups and more consolidated companies, a highly-attractive environment thanks to the interaction of creativity and knowledge offered by the academic world.

The ESADE Bachelor in Business Management and Administration will move to the campus, and the undergraduate (Bachelor) and postgraduate (Master) programmes as defined in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) regulations will be progressively introduced, as will the PhD in Management Sciences.

Phase one will welcome some 1,200 students and this figure will gradually increase until reaching a maximum of 1,600 once the EHEA regulations have been fully implanted by the 2011-2012 academic year.

The project includes a residence hall and restaurants/cafeterias, designed to welcome increasing numbers of students from outside Catalonia and from other countries as a result of the mobility offered by the introduction of the European Higher Education Area.