In collaboration with the Waste Agency of Catalonia (ARC), the UAB will install a micro-anaerobic digester to treat the organic fraction of residue. The process will yield biogas for energy generation and will extract added-value bioproducts.
The closing session of the Small World Initiative project took place on Thursday 17 MAy at the auditorium of the Rectorat building, with the attendance of university students and students from the secondary schools participating in this science popularisation project.
UAB Rector Margarita Arboix will be participating in the Fourth International Meeting of Universia, which will be taking place in Salamanca on 21 and 22 May under the title of "University, Society and Future".
The ICTA-UAB organizes its 1st Spring Symposium, on 16 and 17 May, with the aim of addressing some of the main environmental and sustainability challenges, and mainly those related to global and climate change. The uniqueness of this symposium is its transdisciplinary and global approach.
The competition will begin on 15 May at 10 a.m. at the UAB Theatre Hall. The event will be streamed live and will consist in ten PhD students who will have a maximum of four minutes to defend their thesis. At the end of the competition the jury will select the two best thesis and all those attending will be able to vote for the thesis they liked best.
The cafeteria of the Social Sciences Library will open on weekends (19, 20, 26 and 27 May and 2, 3, 9 and 10 June), and on Monday 21 May (public holiday). The café will be open from 9:30 a.m.to 5:30 p.m.
The UAB obtains the highest score in 24 of 34 indicators evaluated by the Knowledge and Development Foundation (CYD). The CYD ranking evaluates 73 Spanish universities and is based on the European Commission's U-Multirank.
The UAB participated alongside five other Catalan universities: URV, UOC, UdL, UPC and UPF. Over 100 researchers will be working in the centre, coordinated by the Rovira i Virgili University.
The UAB ranks third in Spain according to Reuters' World's Most Innovative Universities. It is located in 93rd position in the Reuters News ranking, which assesses patents and the commercial impact of university research.