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The international teaching and research project Green Dialogues, in which the Faculty of Education Sciences at UIC Barcelona took part alongside Western Norway University and the University of Padua, has concluded after four years with the publication of the book The Green Dialogues: Ecocritical Pathways to Children’s Literature in Education

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.

The hARQware Platform Business Chair is supported by the companies Simon and TdB Arquitectura and directed by doctor of Architecture and UIC Barcelona lecturer Juan Trias de Bes. Its mission is to foster applied research for the integration of digital technologies into the building and urban habitat industries.

Fernando Sánchez Costa, a lecturer at the Faculty of Communication Sciences, is leading the newly created Observatory of Social Trends, an interdisciplinary group set up to identify, analyse and interpret current trends and emerging phenomena around the world. The Observatory has already released the first issue of its journal, Panorama de tendències.

The Norrsken Foundation and MASS Design Group teamed up to launch the Norrsken Kigali House, a new business innovation hub in Kigali, Rwanda, where the historic École Belge was once located. Both companies started with an objective: How can a space dedicated to entrepreneurship become the catalyst for an inclusive, fair and rapid economic transformation in the African region?

On 23 October a new edition of the B-EXCELLENT programme began. This initiative of the UIC Barcelona Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences seeks to enhance the entrepreneurial leadership skills of students with the best academic records. For the 2024-2025 academic year the programme will focus on the mobility sector, one of the most innovative fields that is constantly evolving, especially in sustainability, digitalisation and solutions for smart cities.

During the 2024 Vertical Workshop, students from second to fifth year designed efficient and sustainable solutions, building eight prototypes at 1:2 scaleThe winning project was titled Kigumi and stood out for its awareness of environmental issues affecting the coast of Barcelona, addressing coastal erosion and offering creative recreational and sustainable solutions for citizens

A total of 32 proposals provide solutions to connect the neighbourhoods of Barcelona, Sant Adrià del Besòs and Santa Coloma de Gramenet that border the river Besòs and create more liveable urban spaces in currently fragmented areas.The final degree projects (TFG) were presented at the headquarters of the Association of Architects of Catalonia (COAC).

Researchers of the School of Architecture Dr Carmen Mendoza, Dr Diego Navarro and Dr Marta Benages were the hosts of the start-up event of the European Erasmus+ POLIS project, funded by the European Union, in which representatives of universities from Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Portugal are participating. The POLIS project aims to help create solutions to overcome environmental and social difficulties in Latin America, through the creation of a specialised programme in urban planning

Cristina Lidón, researcher in the Biostatistics Area of the Department of Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences is leading the multidisciplinary group in which researchers from the Department of Medicine, the Faculty of Humanities and the Equality Office of the University are also participating.