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Culture
22-04-2025
The UB launches the fifth edition of Sponsor a Book to restore three 16th-century bibliographic treasures
The micro-sponsorship project, promoted by the UB Sponsors programme, aims to raise €10,870 to preserve an illustrated Bible, a book of trades and a Virgil edition with exceptional engravings.
Institutional
16-04-2025
Front comú de les universitats públiques en defensa del coneixement i la democràcia
La Universitat de Barcelona, la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, la Universitat Pompeu Fabra, la Universitat de Girona, la Universitat de Lleida, la Universitat Rovira i Virgili i la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya s’uneixen per reivindicar la llibertat acadèmica i els valors democràtics d’Europa.
Institutional
20-03-2025
Extended period to participate in the drafting of the UB Statute
The UB university community can submit proposals and comments on the draft text through the digital platform Participa UB.
Culture
16-04-2025
Les novetats d’Edicions UB per a la diada de Sant Jordi
El dimecres 23 d’abril Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona serà al Passeig de Gràcia, 100, de 9 a 21 h. Amb el lema «Saber de llibres. Llibres per saber», l’estand aplegarà les novetats editorials i una selecció del fons, així com un espai destinat a les signatures dels autors d’alguns dels darrers llibres publicats.
Research
15-04-2025
Work beyond wage: UB takes part in a study that reveals the hidden side of contemporary capitalism
Anthropologist Susana Narotzky publishes an article in which she shows how the global economy increasingly relies on precarious, unrecognized and invisible forms of labour that fragment the working class and call into question traditional categories of labour and class.
Research
11-04-2025
Climate change will increase cooling demand in Catalonia and will reduce heating demand
UB doctoral thesis warns climate change will radically transform air conditioning needs in Catalonia and calls for adaptive measures in urban planning, energy and territorial planning
Institutional
10-04-2025
Presentation of the University of Barcelona’s 2025 Sant Jordi poster
This Wednesday, 10 April, the Sant Jordi poster at the University in 2025 was presented in the exhibition hall of the Faculty of Fine Arts. The author of La mà ferida is Pilar Rosado, visual artist and adjunct professor of Fine Arts.
