The UAB is one of the 15 universities and research centres which - through the Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya (CSUC) - has saved up to 1.73 million euros in 2014, a 13% of the total electricity bill.
At less than a month, the Cursa de la UAB in support of the Marató de TV3 (on 14 December), devoted to heart diseases, already includes 500 registrations.
On 19 November, Emma Webb, head of Coursera in Europe, visited the UAB and shared opinions on the platform with professors who had offered MOOCs or were interested in participating.
Santander Universidades offers 225 research grants for lecturing and research staff and PhD students interested in working in research centres or universities of Latin America.
The auditorium of the UAB Faculty of Philosophy and Arts held a conference by Christian Felber, writer and lecturer at the University of Vienna and creator of the concept “economy for the common good”, on 24 November.
Iron fertilisation fosters the growth of small organisms which eat phytoplanktons and produce carbon dioxide when forming their calcareous shells. The research was published in Nature Geoscience.
On Thursday 6 November, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona will be celebrating its Festa Major and the campus will be filled with activities from 12 noon until 10 pm. You can consult the list of activities here.
The company GoEuro is offering a grant to students interested in spending three months in their Berlin office. The grant will go to the student with the most creative project on a better connected Europe.
Developed by researchers from ICN2 and the UAB, it is the first application using nanoparticles to improve the production of this source of renewable energy and the treatment of organic residues. The technology will be commercialised under the newly created spin-off Applied Nanoparticles.