Research and Innovation Financial Management Service (SGERI)

The R&I Economic Management Service's mission is to plan, coordinate, train, execute and control the economic activities of the University's research, in accordance with the current legal framework, with the aim of providing the best service to teaching and research staff and supporting the Transversal Management Units.

The head of the Service is Carlos Laffitte and the service is organised into the following Units:

  • Justifications and Audits Unit
  • Research Accounting Unit
  • Requirements, Project Completion and Collections Management Unit

Justifications and Audits Unit


Management and administration of research project justifications; we train and advise teaching and research staff and the management centres involved.

Justifications and Audits Unit
Head of Unit Fco. Javier Sánchez
Justifications Manager

Modou Fofana Farré

  • Advice and management of justifications
  • Advice and management of requirements

Anna Cendros

Arantxa Barnes
Toñi Arilla
Ana Ratera
Elisabet Torres
Carmen Dengra
Esther Montilla
Sandra Sànchez recerca.just9@upc.edu
Sònia Vàzquez recerca.just10@upc.edu
Silvia Plana recerca.just11@upc.edu
Veronica Espinosa
Sonia Vico
Eva Corominas
Angeles Nuñez

Research Accounting Unit


Management of centralised accounting and support for decentralised accounting in the research field.

Research Accounting Unit
Head of Unit Ana I. Aviñoa
  • European Income Register
  • Registration of overheads of European projects
  • TR+TC of receipts
  • Management of authorisations, rectifications and operations for closed periods
  • Exchange rate differences

Elvira Aguilar

  • Registration of national and congress income
  • Financial management and banking operations
  • Courses and congresses
  • Management of prepaid card registrations
  • Registration of national project overheads
Eva Sarria
  • TR-TC
  • Import VAT
  • Distribution of European funds
  • Recording of extraordinary income
  • MRR reporting

Ester Titos

  • InLab Management
  • Intercommunity VAT recovery
  • Access to debtors' platform
  • Modifications of debtors
  • Management of personal representation expenses

Ismail Fartan

  • Expenditure, funds and projects in the research area
  • CT of own staff
  • Royalty invoices

Albert Sales

Requirements, Project Completion and Collections Management Unit


    Debt management and collection of unpaid amounts, monitoring of insolvency situations and preparation of third-party activity reports.

    Requirements, Project Completion and Collections Management Unit
    Silvia Garceso recerca.requeriments@upc.edu
    Sergio González recerca.req1@upc.edu
    Robert Gago recerca.just5@upc.edu
    Antoni Faja

    recerca.just12@suport.upc.edu

    Miriam Hernandez

    Anna Charles

    gestio.cobraments@upc.edu

    Research Support Units - front office


    To carry out our advisory activities and economic management of R&D&I projects, we are organised in a centralised service structure that is also distributed with the Research Support Units within the Transversal Management Units (UTG) of the Campuses and Schools/Faculties.

    Research Support Unit
    ICT Area (UTGCNTIC)
    Civil Engineering Area (UTGAC)
    Barcelona Industrial Engineering Area (UTGAEIB) and Mathematics Area (FME)
    Building Construction Area (UTGAE)
    Barcelona Architecture Area (UTGAB)
    Diagonal-Besòs Campus (UTGCDB)
    Baix Llobregat Campus (UTGCBL)
    Vilanova i la Geltrú Campus (UTGCVG)
    Manresa Campus (UTGCM)
    Terrassa Campus (UTGCT)
    Sant Cugat and Nautical Campus