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UIC Barcelona has signed a cooperation agreement with the passive construction company PAPIK Group to promote research in the field of passive architecture. The initiative will be led by the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture

Medyournal, a project developed by four students on the Bachelor’s Degree in Biomedical Sciences at UIC Barcelona and one student from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), has become one of the standout initiatives within UIC Barcelona’s entrepreneurial ecosystem this academic year, after receiving several accolades in innovation and entrepreneurship.

The guest speaker, Cristóbal Martell, described the law as “the greatest achievement in terms of civilisation” and encouraged graduates “never to stop studying, studying and studying”

Dr Carolina Climent Sanz, a researcher and lecturer in the Bachelor’s Degree in Physiotherapy at UIC Barcelona, is at the helm of FRAME (Fibromyalgia Realist Approach to Mapping Exercise Interventions), a European research project that will study how to adapt exercise programmes to the individual needs of people with fibromyalgia.

Patron Anna Gener highlights “beauty” as a guiding principle in life, and dean Toni Mora underscores the value of human judgement amid the paradigm shift brought about by artificial intelligence

Ignacio Comella, a fourth-year student on the Bachelor’s Degree in Law at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC Barcelona), received the Santander Excelencia 360° Scholarship last academic year, an award that recognises not only academic achievement but also students’ involvement in university life, social activities and personal development

With more than 1,000 alums from 80 nationalities, an employment rate of 74.1% and a network of 528 agreements with cultural institutions, the programme’s track record reflects its status as a pioneering initiative that has helped professionalise cultural management in Barcelona and around the world

The BIME Bogotá music forum provided the setting for the presentation of the second edition of the International Congress on Research in Creative Industries 2026 (CIIIC), an academic event organised by UIC Barcelona through the Faculty of Communication Sciences

Two projects led by researchers from the University’s Department of Psychology and two projects by students from the Bachelor’s Degree in Biomedical Sciences have been selected to take part in Cecot’s Healthcare pre-acceleration programme, an initiative which supports entrepreneurship in the health and care sector with a view to fostering startups and innovative projects.

Vicenç Sarrablo, director of the ASCER Ceramics Chair at UIC Barcelona, has published his new book Ladrillo, Sistema Off-Site. Nuevas estrategias para la arquitectura industrializada (Brick system off-site: New strategies for industrialized architecture). The volume brings together 25 outstanding national and international proposals for brick‑based construction