The UAB's Sustainable and Safe Mobility Week will take place from 24 to 28 October, with mobility-related activities every day on the Bellaterra Campus for the entire community. On Thursday 27 October bicycles will be the stars during the celebration of "Bicycle Day".
The GECS on equality, discrimination and violence by the UAB and the EGERA is now open.
Rosa Maria Calaf spoke on education as the people's "catalyst of rights", defended the role of journalism in democratic societies and called to continue fighting for gender equality at the opening lecture of this new academic year, in an event celebrated on 3 October at the Rectorat building.
The UAB Research Park coordinates reWine, a LIFE project to study the viability of a sustainable system of collecting, cleaning and reusing glass bottles from the wine industry in Catalonia, with the participation of the university's spin-off Inèdit, other institutions, wine companies, distributors and consumers.
The university community (students, teaching and research staff, administration and services staff) elected its senate representatives through an electronic voting system. Members can view the provisional results at the elections website (in Catalan).
Researchers at the ICN2 report in an article in Nature that flexoelectric-like effects are more ubiquitous than previously thought. The ICN2 researchers report that semiconductors, which can be thought of as half-way between electrical insulators and actual metals, also generate electricity in response to bending.
The UAB, thanks to an initiative by the governing team, has created a mediation committee with the aim of resolving possible conflicts which could deteriorate the relations between different members of the university community.
The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona is once again the top university in Spain according to the Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2016-2017
Sara Moreno, Vice-Rector for Students and Employability, and Vicenç Sellés, Director of the Treball Campus, presented in Brussels the programme Euroacció, a pioneering programme to encourage students and graduates to take up work placements in EU institutions. They also presented the Brussels chapter, the university's first international alumni section.