A place for learning

The University of Barcelona’s Institute of Lifelong Learning, also known as IL3, is located in the old textile mill Can Canela, where it makes use of nearly 5,000 square metres renovated in 1996 to provide the ideal environment for facing up to today’s new learning challenges.

While it maintains features of the typical industrial architecture of the early 20th century, the Institute is a modern, totally renovated centre that fits in perfectly with the other facilities in 22@, an area known as Barcelona’s pole of innovation and technological knowledge.

Focused on the future

IL3, which opened in 2006, was the result of a merger between two important institutions with a long experience of the world of education: the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation, with a focus on face-to-face learning, and the University of Barcelona, specialists in distance learning. Today it is one of the most important cogs in business and functional learning in Barcelona, introducing knowledge into the world of work to make it more competitive.