Intensive (pre-semester) Spanish language courses
Intensive course on our campus in Gandia
Participants will receive a certificate of completion with 4 ECTS. This course and the credits will be added to your UPV list of enrolled courses a few weeks after the end of the intensive course. The course will also be included in your transcript of records at the end of your mobility period.
Students coming through the Erasmus exchange program may include this course in their Erasmus+ Learning Agreement if they wish to (the course has no numeric code).
General calendar: 10 days in late August or late January.
Dates of the next edition: Monday, August 24 to Wednesday, September 2, 2026.
Mornings: Spanish language classes
Afternoons: activities and workshops to practice the language (sports, culture, visits, etc.)
Total: 40 hours
Credits: 4 ECTS (these credits will be added to your UPV transcript of records a few weeks after the end of the intensive course)
Levels: A1 A2, B1 and B2 (minimum 10 students per group)
Price: around 260€ (course and material); please consult the official information each semester in the link below
Official information: Gandia Campus International Relations Office website
The updated information for each semester is normally published in April-May for the August edition, and in October for the January edition. The link for the registration, through the website of our Lifelong Learning Center, will also be provided in the link above
Contact: spanish_courses@epsg.upv.es
Important notice: This pre-semester course is an introductory or refresher course. It is NOT equivalent to a level of the European Framework of Reference for Languages. This course by itself cannot be used as proof of Spanish to be admitted by UPV as an exchange student, and a certificate of completion is not enough to participate in Spanish language classes of the next level during the semester.
Intensive course on our campus in Valencia
Participants will receive a certificate of completion but no ECTS credits. This course will not be added to your UPV list of enrolled courses, and it will not be included in your transcript of records at the end of your mobility period.
Students coming through the Erasmus exchange program must NOT include this course in their Erasmus+ Learning Agreement (as no credits are provided).
Dates of the next edition: Monday 31 August – Friday 4 September 2026 (15:30 – 19:30)
Registration: 15 June – 25 July 2026
Levels: A1, A2, B1 and B2
Price: UPV exchange students 107€ (150€ for the general public).
Further information on the website of our Language Center: http://www.upv.es/cdl
Spanish language courses during the semester
The UPV offers Spanish as a second language classes as complementary training for its exchange students (free of charge). These courses are not accessible to other types of international students who are not mobility students accepted through bilateral agreements (international degree students, Erasmus traineeships, etc., visiting students / freemovers, etc).
Duration: September – end of December (final exam in January) and February – end of May (exam in June)
Credits: 4,5 ECTS (twice per week, 90 minutes each day).
Levels at the Valencia campus (*): A1, A2, B1, B2, and C1, as defined by the European Framework of Reference for Languages.
(*) The basic level A1 is only available for students from Australian and Asian partner institutions, as well as Erasmus+ KA171 students (those who receive the Erasmus+ grant scholarship from UPV, not from their home university). Level C1 is available only in the period February-June.
Levels at the Gandia campus (EPSG): A2, B1, and B2
Levels at the Alcoy campus (EPSA): B1 and B2
Accepted students will receive an invitation to take an online placement (level) test in late November/early December or late June/early July.
This UPV level test is mandatory to participate in the Spanish courses during the semester at level A2 or above. Students from Australia, Asian partner institutions, or Erasmus KA171 students who wish to join the basic (introductory) level A1 do not need to take the online test.
The result of your level according to the online Spanish will be uploaded to your online file and will determine the Spanish language classes you will be able to request. The test result will be one of the levels of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2).
Exchange students who (during their application for admission to UPV) submit a language certificate confirming a certain level of Spanish will not be allowed to join Spanish language courses during the semester at a lower level than the level indicated in their application documents.
European mobility students are not allowed to join the basic level A1 of language courses during the semester. In order to participate in level A2, their result in the UPV online level test must show that they have a good command of the language skills of level A1. The pre-semester intensive Spanish course will not be considered as proof of having completed the basic level A1.
Registration and timetables
During the process of reconfirmation of all your semester courses (subjects/modules), in August or January, our tool for mobility students will allow you to select classes of the next level.
For example, if your online test determines that your current (completed, finished) level of CEFR is A2, our tool will allow you to select a class of the next level (B1).
Semester Spanish courses and Erasmus+ Learning Agreement
Please do not include the semester Spanish courses in your Erasmus+ Learning Agreement “Before the Mobility” during the admission phase at the UPV.
Each Spanish course has a numerical code and and name that changes depending on the semester of teaching (Semester A or Semester B), the campus, and the level.
You may include your Spanish courses in the Erasmus+ Learning Agreement “Changes During the Mobility” from September or February.