News

The University of Barcelona, the Alt Penedès and Garraf Healthcare Consortium, Castellers de Vilafranca, and the Pinnae Foundation will promote a set of educational and research initiatives to generate scientific knowledge about castellers. 

The study, published in the European Journal of Political Research, analyses nearly 1,900 rulings on the constitutionality of state and regional regulations.

La recerca, basada en l’anàlisi geoquímica d’utensilis de pedra tallada, demostra que caçadors recol·lectors del centre de la península Ibèrica van mantenir contactes a molt llarga distància i van connectar amplis territoris d’Europa occidental.

Large amounts of litter, mainly consisting of plastics, become trapped in these unique and biodiverse — but also highly vulnerable — ecosystems, which are structured around plant species adapted to growing in saline soils that are permanently or temporarily flooded. This is a major environmental problem.

Comunicat

The ceremony will take place on 26 January and will include a round table with representatives from universities that are currently under bombings.
 

It is the leading institution in Spain in four areas.

The University of Barcelona paid tribute to a key figure in psychology and in institutional life with an event that highlighted her mentorship, rigour and a way of understanding the university grounded in intellectual generosity.

The authors, Àlex Aguilar, professor at the UB’s Faculty of Biology, and Max Aguilar, photographer, take readers on an intriguing journey through one of the most deeply rooted — and at the same time controversial — economic activities in maritime history.

Cutting-edge artificial intelligence techniques help detect complex patterns to better understand why this hereditary neurodegenerative disease can begin at very different ages in patients.

The funds raised will be used to carry out several initiatives, including providing drinking water to 850 families.

The Apel·les Infantil project is supported by the Institute for Professional Development of the University of Barcelona and Òmnium Cultural Eixample.

The initiative, funded by the European Union, will boost energy efficiency through the use of solar energy in the industrial plastics sectors in Spain, Turkey, Egypt, France, Italy and Palestine.

The opening lecture will be given by Catherine Walsh, a pedagogue, thinker, and activist intellectual, internationally recognized for her commitment to decolonial struggles and praxis. 

A delegation from the UB and UdG visits Gaston Berger University and Cheikh Anta Diop University.

The event will take place on 20 January and will feature Piotr Cywiński, director of Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, and Danuta Glondys, former city councillor for Culture in Kraków and former director of Villa Decius.

Professor of Sociology, she is an expert in gender and technology, as well as in gender and family public policies. 

An event on Tuesday, 20 January, will honour her extensive career in the fields of research, teaching and university management.

Les visites, que tindran una durada d’una hora i es faran de la mà d’una guia experta, proposen un recorregut per l’Edifici Històric a partir d’una breu selecció de textos que l’han pres com a escenari.