The UAB is one of the first universities to introduce Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) this year. Created by the United Nations, these objectives focus on extreme poverty, hunger, access to healthcare and education, and climate change, and will be offered in five degrees belonging to the Faculty of Education and the School of Engineering.
The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) presented its 2017 edition of rankings by subjects of the best universities in the world. Globally, the UAB occupies position number 166.
The Young European Research Universities Network (YERUN), of which the UAB is member, has released a statement in which it calls to maintain collaborations with British universities despite Brexit.
Interview with Ládio Veron, representative of the Guarani-Kaiowá community of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, during his visit to Europe.
The UAB now includes two new archaeology and palaeontology campuses in Lleida: the Coll de Nargó Campus and the Pallars Jussà Campus.
The UAB Governing Council has approved the nomination of an honorary doctorate in biochemistry for Margarita Salas and in fine arts for Josep Maria Flotats. They were nominated by the Faculties of Sciences and Biosciences, and by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, respectively.
The UAB Observatory for Equality launches the campaign "El sexisme no fa gràcia" (Sexism Is Not Funny) to give visibility to the consequences of sexist humour.
The UAB and the UAB-CIE member institutions will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the European Research Council on Thursday 30 March at 11 a.m., at the Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG). The meeting will unite researchers who have received funding from this European programme in the past 10 years.