Joan Guàrdia receives an honorary doctorate from the University of Montpelier

Joan Guàrdia receives the honorary degree by the Rector of the University of Montpellier, Philippe Augé.
Joan Guàrdia receives the honorary degree by the Rector of the University of Montpellier, Philippe Augé.
News | Institutional
(05/02/2024)
Last Friday, the rector of the University of Barcelona, Joan Guàrdia, received the honorary doctorate award from the University of Montpellier. In a ceremony presided over by the rector of the French institution, Philippe Augé, Guàrdia received this award for having contributed decisively to the long-lasting relationships between both universities, which, together with the Trinity College Dublin, Utrecht University, the Budapest Eötvös Loránd University, the Åbo Akademi University, the Julius-Maximilian University of Würzburg and the West Ruhr University of Applied Sciences, form the CHARM-EU alliance. 
Joan Guàrdia receives the honorary degree by the Rector of the University of Montpellier, Philippe Augé.
Joan Guàrdia receives the honorary degree by the Rector of the University of Montpellier, Philippe Augé.
News | Institutional
05/02/2024
Last Friday, the rector of the University of Barcelona, Joan Guàrdia, received the honorary doctorate award from the University of Montpellier. In a ceremony presided over by the rector of the French institution, Philippe Augé, Guàrdia received this award for having contributed decisively to the long-lasting relationships between both universities, which, together with the Trinity College Dublin, Utrecht University, the Budapest Eötvös Loránd University, the Åbo Akademi University, the Julius-Maximilian University of Würzburg and the West Ruhr University of Applied Sciences, form the CHARM-EU alliance. 

Rector Augé qualified as a “great honour” awarding the honorary doctorate to Rector Guàrdia, and highlighted his brilliant academic career in the field of psychology. Also, he highlighted the efforts the UB and the University of Montpellier are making to build the future of higher education.  

In his speech, Joan Guàrdia said that “the university of the future is not conceivable without an integrating conception that allows for a global impact”. “The European university space is the best evidence —he said—. Europe is the university, the universities are European: they are inseparable, this is a consolidated reality”. 

With Guàrdia visiting the French city, both institutions signed a framework agreement to carry out new common projects in the framework of the excellence programme I-SITE Nourrir-Protéger-Soigner (feed, protect, treat). 

Joan Guàrdia said that “the university of the future is not conceivable without an integrating conception that allows for a global impact”

Joan Guàrdia Olmos, professor of Methodology of Behavioural Sciences at the Faculty of Psychology, is the rector of the UB since December 2020. He entered the University as a student of the Faculty of Economic Sciences and combined these studies with Psychology. Expert on statistics and the systematic study of human behaviour, he has taught at the Faculty of Psychology and also at the faculties of Pharmacy, Economics and Business, Geography and History, Nursing, Education and Biology.  

He has given seminars and courses and has supervised doctoral theses in several national and international universities. He has published more than thirty books and more than 260 scientific papers, and has been the principal researcher of many research projects. He has held several positions in academic management, and he is now member of the Institute of Neurosciences of the UB (UBneuro) and the Institute of Complex Systems (UBICS), where he does research on quantitative and computational neurosciences.

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The Rector, during his speech.