CISOL serves as a centre for information, exposition and documentation about solar technologies and renewable energies in buildings for students as well as architects. It offers information, consultancy and contacts to specialized companies.

Within regular and elective classes at the Vallès School of Architecture (ETSAV), CISOL introduces students into solar design, solar technologies, and energy efficiency in buildings, from bioclimatic concepts up to high tech architecture.

The CISOL Solar Workshops about integration of solar technologies and energy efficiency in buildings foster the development of high quality projects based on integrated energy design.

The LOW3 project (www.low3.upc.edu) for the SOLAR DECATHLON EUROPE 2010 competition introduced new concepts of participatory teaching and an experimental building site for the evaluation of prototypes into the Campus Sant Cugat.