The 3rd Maria Sabater Videocast Competition has been launched to support student-created channels 14/04/2026
Undergraduate, postgraduate, master’s and doctoral students can submit their entries until 15 May. The winning project will produce eight monthly episodes during the 2026-2027 academic year.
The University of Barcelona receives the 2026 Saint George’s Cross 14/04/2026
The Government of Catalonia honours the institution, founded in 1450, for its long-standing contribution to knowledge, research and education, and for its key role in Catalonia.
An innovative model for studying key cells in heart development and repair 14/04/2026
A study led by the UB presents a new in vitro model of fibroblasts, cells that play a vital role in the formation and regeneration of the heart.
Agreement to restore the Dragon Gate at the Güell Pavilions 13/04/2026
The Institute of Urban Landscape and Quality of Life and the World Monuments Fund are funding the restoration.
Agreements with two leading institutions within the university and research system of the Brazilian state of Paraná 13/04/2026
The University of Barcelona has signed cooperation agreements with the Araucária Foundation and the Federal University of Paraná.
The UB will bring together international experts to analyse the political role of science 13/04/2026
On 16 and 17 April, a series of sessions at the Raval Campus will bring together, among others, Manuel Delgado, Iñaki Rivera, David Bondia and the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo.
The Doctoral Research and Dissemination Conference serves as a platform for networking among PhD students 10/04/2026
More than 200 people participated in it, presenting 87 posters and 53 talks inspired by research experiences.
A global collaboration reaches 1% precision on the local expansion rate of the Universe 10/04/2026
A community-built distance network sharpens the Hubble constant and broadens the evidence behind the Hubble tension.
“The university is Roma too!” challenges stereotypes and raises awareness of the Roma community’s presence in academia 09/04/2026
The event featured talks on the history of the Roma people and the round-table discussion “Roma students at university”.
Professor Raül Garrigasait receives the 2026 Serra d’Or Prize for essays for ‘La roca i l’aire’ 09/04/2026
The award, presented by Serra d’Or of Montserrat Abbey, has recognized the best essay published in 2025, a book on Catalan art and religion.
UB Editions presents ‘La Universitat de Barcelona dibuixada’, a visual journey through the institution’s heritage 08/04/2026
The Rector, Joan Guàrdia, the vice-rector, Agustí Alcoberro, and the authors, Ramon Dilla and Raúl Deamo, took part in the presentation, held on 7 April.
Third edition of the Sona UB music competition 08/04/2026
The competition organized by the University of Barcelona to promote musical talent among its community is now open.
New advances in understanding how the most common form of childhood cancer originates 08/04/2026
A new study has established a two-phase model to understand the origins of childhood B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and to help develop strategies for preventing the disease.
La UB impulsa la Setmana Saludable amb activitats per promoure la salut i el benestar 07/04/2026
La iniciativa inclou activitat física, tallers i accions de salut del 13 al 18 d’abril, en el marc del 575è aniversari de la UB i del Dia Mundial de l’Activitat Física.
Open registration for Student Day: “Beyond the classroom, let’s bring student bodies to life” 07/04/2026
Tindrà lloc el 14 d’abril a l’Edifici Històric i inclourà una fira d’associacions i taules rodones sobre les principals preocupacions de l’alumnat.
“The University is Roma too!” brings together the testimonies of Roma students and professors 30/03/2026
La UB i CampusRom commemoren el Dia Internacional del Poble Gitano amb una sessió que vol combatre els estereotips i lluitar contra la discriminació des de l’acadèmia.
A manual addresses, for the first time in Spain, child and adolescent sexual exploitation 27/03/2026
The authors of this work, published by Octaedro Editorial, are Noemí Pareda, UB Professor of Victimology, and Beatriz Benavente, researcher at UIB.
An illustrated book explores the spaces and memory of the University on its 575th anniversary 26/03/2026
The book, by Ramon Dilla and Raúl Deamo, combines nearly 50 illustrations and texts, and will be presented on 7 April at the Alibri bookshop as part of the 575th anniversary celebrations.
Human creativity still surpasses AI 26/03/2026
In creative-imagination tasks, people prove to be far more creative than AI models.
The UB ranks among the world’s top 100 in 23 subjects and among the top 50 in medicine and library and information science 25/03/2026
The University of Barcelona excels in a total of 46 disciplines and is the top-ranked Spanish institution in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.
The UB launches the “The UB in 575 Images” photography competition to mark its 575th anniversary 25/03/2026
The UB community can take part by posting photos on Instagram using the hashtag #LaMevaUB. The 575 selected images will be displayed in an exhibition in June and July.
Fine Arts students from the UB win five international design prizes at the ASKIN Awards 24/03/2026
The projects, developed in the Design degree with a piece from the Tarimatec company of the ASKIN system, have been selected among the best in the international competition.
New compounds to inactivate a key protein in the influenza virus 24/03/2026
Molecules that inhibit neuraminidase, one of the proteins in the flu virus, could improve the design of vaccines against future pandemics.
Llars Mundet will host Europe’s most advanced centre for applied neuroscience 23/03/2026
With an initial investment of €12 million, the Barcelona Centre for Applied Neurosciences (BCAN) will restore an emblematic heritage site, the former theatre at Mundet Campus, and will be equipped with cutting-edge technology in Spain.
Antoni M Badia i Margarit Awards for the best theses in Catalan 23/03/2026
The awards aim to encourage the writing of theses in Catalan and to recognize those that also consider sustainability, gender perspectives and knowledge dissemination.
Prolonged exposure to microplastics disrupts the metabolism of Mediterranean octocorals 23/03/2026
These pollutants affect key processes in these colonial organisms, which are essential in the structure and biodiversity of the seabed.
The UB awards the 2026-2027 folder design prize to a Physics student 20/03/2026
The competition awarded the prize to the design El coneixement com a temple, which highlights faculties as spaces for community, with 40 entries submitted and 4,972 votes cast.
“We will never forget them” 20/03/2026
Pain and remembrance at the tribute to the 13 Erasmus students who lost their lives in Freginals 10 years ago.
Forum Vives calls for more ambitious policies to address the lingüístic emergency in universities 20/03/2026
The meeting held at the UB urges strengthening the use of Catalan in teaching, research and knowledge transfer, and deploying more effective strategies regarding the language decline.
Lilian Thuram: «Les nostres societats s’han construït basant-se en una jerarquia de colors de pell» 19/03/2026
La UB i el FC Barcelona han presentat una campanya contra el racisme, amb intervencions institucionals i un col·loqui de Thuram sobre el fenomen.
Presentation of the astronomer Easter cake at the Faculty of Physics 19/03/2026
The figure arrives in the year of the total solar eclipse, accompanied by a chocolate sun and moon, to promote research and spark scientific vocations among young people.
The SocUB app wins the award for best internal communication tool at the Internal Communications Day 2026 18/03/2026
The award recognizes the app as a digital channel for the university community, with 60,000 active users and intensive use of services and institutional notifications.
Integrated psychological treatment improves outcomes in dual disorders 18/03/2026
The University of Barcelona is participating in an international consensus research aimed at improving the treatment of a complex disorder affecting thousands of people.
Joan Guàrdia champions the partnership between the city and the university 18/03/2026
The rector of the University of Barcelona delivered the opening address at the Amics del País 2026 awards, an event marking the institution’s 575th anniversary.
The UB offers an attractive, up-to-date academic programme tailored to the social context 18/03/2026
The UB is taking part once again in the Education Fair, which begins today, 18 March, and ends on Sunday.
Presentation of the renovation project for the Theatre building at the Mundet Campus on 23 March 17/03/2026
The event will reveal the key details of the refurbishment of the space, which will house the Barcelona Centre for Applied Neurosciences (BCAN).
Martalu D. Pazos will represent the UB in the Coimbra Group’s Three-Minute Thesis competition 17/03/2026
The competition aims to encourage people working on a doctoral thesis to explain the importance of their research to society.
New legal solutions for an increasingly ageing societ 17/03/2026
Legal experts from various countries discussed at a conference at the UB how civil law can promote the personal and financial well-being of the most vulnerable elderly people.
David Bueno, the UB’s new special assistant for scientific dissemination 17/03/2026
One of the main objectives of the professor and researcher at the UB’s Faculty of Biology will be to involve the university community in scientific dissemination initiatives.
The UB has won three titles and reached six finals in the Catalan University Championships in Team Sports 17/03/2026
Around a hundred UB students competed in Vic on 12 March. The day ended with three titles and three runners-up spots for the basketball and futsal teams.
Former Barcelona player Lilian Thuram speaks about racism at the University of Barcelona 16/03/2026
The event coincides with the exhibition “Tant se val d’on venim”, which will be on display at the Historic Building during the week of 16 March.
Researchers unravel the brain mechanisms underlying working memory 16/03/2026
A groundbreaking study helps us better understand how the brain stores and rapidly updates the information it receives.
The 2024–2025 Report is now available 16/03/2026
It can be read on the “Reports and Memoranda” section of the
Technical Bureau at the Rector’s Office website.
The University of Barcelona will commemorate the victims of Freginals on 20 March 16/03/2026
It has been 10 years since the accident in which 13 UB Erasmus students lost their lives.
Marc Giró apropa la realitat de la Universitat als seus oients 13/03/2026
Un dels programes estrella de Rac1 s’ha emès des de la Universitat de Barcelona en el marc del 575è aniversari de la institució.
The UB hosts the Vives Forum on University Language Policy to address the emergency of Catalan language 13/03/2026
Institutional leaders and experts will debate in the Aula Magna the role of universities in the face of the decline in the social use of Catalan and the linguistic challenges of higher education.
Researchers design a pioneering drug capable of reversing cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease in animal models 13/03/2026
The new experimental compound works through an epigenetic mechanism that acts not only on the symptoms of the disease, but directly on the molecular mechanisms that contribute to its progression.
The rise of the far right in the Western world 12/03/2026
La expansión global de la extrema derecha. Un estudio de casos en Europa y América Latina, by Víctor Climent Sanjuán and Wagner Iglecias (eds.), analyses the rise of radical populist right-wing and far-right parties in Western societies.
The astronomer’s science Easter cake arrives in the year of the total solar eclipse 12/03/2026
It will be presented at the Faculty of Physics on 19 March.
You can now vote on the design of the 2026-2027 folder 12/03/2026
The winning entry of the 19th edition of the UB Folder Competition will be announced on 20 March.
Özlem Türeci calls for curiosity and rigour to contribute to science 11/03/2026
The new honorary doctor helped develop a COVID-19 vaccine and has promoted a revolutionary technology to treat various types of tumours.
People with HIV did not show more severe clinical symptoms during the 2022 mpox outbreak in Spain 11/03/2026
A study has analysed 1,158 confirmed cases of mpox —a disease also known as monkeypox— in adult men from seven autonomous communities in Spain.
‘Vostè primer’, by Marc Giró, joins the celebrations of the 575th anniversary of the University of Barcelona 10/03/2026
The RAC1 programme will be broadcast live on Friday 13 March, starting at 1 p.m., at the Aula Magna of the Historic Building.
Water returns to local councils: a study by the University of Barcelona reveals the extent of remunicipalisation in Catalonia 10/03/2026
A study by the University of Barcelona analyses almost 100 municipalities and concludes that remunicipalisation is the only effective brake on the dominance of large private companies in urban water management.
A conference analyses the legal challenges facing an increasingly ageing society 09/03/2026
It will address issues such as inheritance rights in the case of vulnerable persons and the protection of personal and financial well-being.
The University of Barcelona becomes a key academic partner of the Bank of Spain 09/03/2026
The agreement provides for the development of academic synergies and the design of training content.
Illa informs university rectors of the Government’s commitment to universities in the new budget 05/03/2026
During the meeting, Illa expressed the need to have the new accounts in place to achieve the goal of “being one of the 50 most innovative regions in Europe by 2030.”
The percentage of female professors at the UB has increased by 14% over the last decade, reaching 35% 05/03/2026
On the occasion of 8 March, the UB has presented data that shows the University’s positive progress towards gender equality.
Antoni Llardén takes office as the new president of the Board of Trustees of the University of Barcelona 05/03/2026
He has held various senior positions in the infrastructure and energy.