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El campus d’Alcoi de la Universitat Politècnica de València tiene sus orígenes en la Real Fábrica de Paños de Alcoy (RFPA), organismo que durante la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII y primera década del XIX emprendió una decidida política de renovación e industrialización promoviendo contratos a técnicos extranjeros y expertos en procesos de tinturas y equipamiento. Además fomentó el envío de comisionados a diferentes lugares al objeto de introducir innovaciones e incorporar nuevas maquinarias de hilatura.

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The Alcoy campus of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) has its origins in the Royal Cloth Factory of Alcoy (RFPA), an organization that during the second half of the eighteenth century and first decade of the nineteenth century undertook a concerted effort to promote renovation and industrialization establishing contracts with foreign technicians and experts in dyeing and equipment processes. It also encouraged the sending of commissioners to different places in order to introduce innovations and incorporate new spinning machinery.

During the second decade of the nineteenth century there were turbulent anti-machinist events caused by workers´ the rejection of the introduction of new production methods that eliminated much of the manual labor. Due to these events, and despite the efforts made by the RFPA, the Alcoy industry could not keep up with technological developments. These circumstances showed the need for the creation of a center of higher studies capable of generating specialist technicians with strong theoretical and practical preparation, capable of running a modern textile factory.

Likewise, the Royal Cloth Factory of Alcoy expressed its concern over dependence on foreign technicians and concluded that it was necessary to train technicians who, after a theoretical and practical preparation, would be able to competently manage the different sections of a modern and mechanized textile factory.

This idea was realized in the of October 29, 1828 session, in which the Royal Factory agreed to create and maintain at its expense some industrial preparation studies, which would be called the Scientific - Artistic Establishment, known as “School of the Bolla”, a name taken from the former guild house of the founding entity, so named because the cloth was bolted in this building.

The project was carried out without delay and was launched the following year. Starting with the goal to teach the following four cathedrae: Reading, Writing and the basics of Accounting in the first cathedra; Arithmetic and Algebra, in the second; Geometry, Mechanics, Physics and Geometric Design applied to the Arts, in the third; and Chemistry in the fourth cathedra. The Scientific - Artistic Establishment lasted only five years.

By the Royal Order of 1853, three technical education centers were created in Spain, Alcoy being one of them. Official studies were resumed, under the name of "Elementary Industrial School", subsidized with state, municipal and industrial funds. From this time on, state intervention increased. The RD of August 8, 1862 granted to this School the right to issue titles, first of Chemical Expert and then of Mechanic. This type of school was subsequently eliminated, but Alcoy continued its efforts and its school functioned as the only center dedicated to these kinds of technical study.