The UAB is one of 16 institutions participating in the Active Campus Europe project, coordinated by the RWTH Aachen University and with the objective of fostering physical activity and fighting against sedentary lifestyles among students.
The lecturer from the Department of Art and Musicology received a $5,000 grant for the digitalisation of a series of highly valuable musical pieces, located on a piano roll stored at the Historical Archive of Ecuador in Quito.
Once again, the UAB is organising its Open Days to make its academic programmes known to future students, who will be able to download information on scholarships and aids, international mobility and internships in companies.
From 25 to 27 January, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities played host to the 5th International Conference of the Association of Young Researchers on Anglophone Studies (ASYRAS), made up of master's degree and PhD students.
According to UAB researchers, official poverty indicators – which show a shy increase from 20% to 22% in the 2004-2014 period – does not adequately reflect recent changes in the Spanish economy caused by the crisis. When the threshold of poverty levels in 2009 is used, the number of poor people between 2010 and 2014 go from 10.2 to 14.7 millions, an increase of 45%.
The UAB will be the only retransmission point in Catalonia of the Women in Data Science conference, celebrated at Stanford University and simultaneously at 25 other locations around the globe on 3 February.
This year, the UAB will offer new Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC), available on Coursera, the world's leading platform for online courses. The four new courses focus on persuasion, finances, sustainability and heritage of the Valley of the Kings.