On Tuesday 6 March the UAB organised an institutional celebration of International Women's Day, which this year paid homage to Professor Montserrat Solsona. Different activities have been held on campus throughout the week, all dedicated to 8 March.
The UAB opens a new period in which members of the univeristy community can participate in the “Bike to the UAB” challenge. All kilometres biked by participants from 15 February to 15 March will be registered.
From 12 to 17 February, the UAB organises its International Welcome Days, a week in which it helps all new international students get orientated.
If you need to certify your level of English now you have a new option to do so: the multilevel TOEIC. The next sitting is on 2 March.
The UAB received €34.4M from the Horizon 2020 programme for 73 projects in the 2014-2017 period. This data makes it third in funding for Spanish universities, following the technical universities of Catalonia (UPC) and Madrid (UPM).
A new service, OPINA UAB, allows all those interested to transmit to the university administration their opinions, suggestions, complaints or compliments on any of the university activities and services offered by the UAB.
The UAB and FC Barça signed an agreement to create the Master's Degree in Management of Communication and Sponsorship in Sports Organisations, which will form part of the Sport Communication Lab, a joint initiative which will managed by the UAB Olympic and Sports Studies Centre (CEO) and the Barça Innovation Hub.
The UAB's online journal UABDivulga recently received the National Research Prize 2017 from the Government of Catalonia and the Catalan Research and Innovation Foundation (FCRi) in the category of Scientific Communication.
As in previous years, the UAB centres will be closed during the period 23 December 2017 to7 January 2018. Some services, however, will still be operating.