News

Driven by the Vives University Network, with the participation of 17 universities and institutions from the knowledge system, the leading international platform for science communication has incorporated Catalan into its global network.

Lecturer and researcher Sílvia Albareda, as principal investigator of the Educlima research project, presented the main findings from the study conducted by the five Spanish universities participating in this interdisciplinary project, which involved teaching staff from multiple faculties at UIC Barcelona

The biannual magazine Panorama de Tendencias published its second issue last quarter under the title “Barcelona, Capital of the Mediterranean”, offering a reflection on the historic link between the Catalan capital and the Mediterranean Sea. The edition opens with an article by Xavier Baró, historian at UIC Barcelona.

In November and December, the town of Calonge i Sant Antoni hosted a series of educational sessions promoted by UIC Barcelona and the Municipal Council, within the scope of their strategic partnership

Dr Anna Carballo Márquez, lecturer in the Department of Psychology at UIC Barcelona, has been awarded €115,000 through the “Social Research” call of the Social Observatory of the “la Caixa” Foundation to lead a study investigating the prevalence and normalisation of gender-based violence among adolescents

Uciel Chorostecki, a Ramón y Cajal research fellow in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at UIC Barcelona, leads a project funded under the 2024 Knowledge Generation Projects programme, the main aim of which is to decipher how the secondary structure of long non-coding RNA (IncRNA) determines its biological function, beyond differences in its genetic sequence

Through this partnership, the three organisations, all of which are committed to innovation and the health of society, will promote a project aimed at modifying the clinical guidelines of hospital facilities to reduce and control the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection

For the fourth consecutive year, researchers from various disciplines at UIC Barcelona have been included in the prestigious Ranking of the World Scientists: World’s Top 2% Scientists, compiled by Stanford University and published in Elsevier

Members of the WeCare Chair and the Cuides UIC Barcelona clinic took part in the latest edition of the Spanish Society for Palliative Care (SECPAL) Congress, where they presented several poster communications and showcased UIC Barcelona’s academic and clinical programmes in the field of palliative care