From 8 to 16 February 2017, the International Students Welcome Days (IWD) 2016-2017 will offer plenty of activities, training workshops and gatherings are organized for international students attending our University in the second term of the year.
On 15 February an information session will take place at the cinema hall of the Plaça Cívica to talk about the Fulbright grants for graduates interested in enrolling in master's degrees, PhD programmes or predoctoral research projects in American universities.
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.
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.
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.
In the past report "Indicadors Bibliomètrics de l’Activitat Científica Espanyola 2005-2014" by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology, the UAB was listed as the second university in Spain after the UB in number of cited publications.