Students and staff at the UAB interested in meeting new people and discovering other realities, and learning and fighting for social justice, can participate in one of the volunteering programmes coordinated by the Fundació Autònoma Solidaria (FAS).
The European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU), of which the UAB is member, has organised a meeting on innovative learning strategies which will be held on 19 and 20 September at the Lodz University of Technology.
Ten UAB students participated in the Olympic Games held in Rio de Janeiro this past August. They form part of the field hockey, water polo and swim teams. The female and male field hockey teams, and the female water polo team all won Olympic medals.
Interview with Joos Droogleever, lecturer and researcher at the University of Amsterdam and expert in geography and gender, who recently visited the UAB.
During the month of September, many of the UAB academic centres begin lectures and organise a series of welcoming sessions for first-year students beginning their university studies in the 2016/17 academic year.
All UAB centres will be closed from 4 to 24 August. Some services, however, will be available. The train service offered by the Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat (FGC) will be affected by construction work being carried out at the Sarrià station.
The UAB offers a new website on food services at the Bellaterra and Sabadell campuses. The new portal can be used with any mobile device and includes information on food, health, and socially responsible restaurants.
The UAB condemns the attacks carried out on 14 July in Nice and wishes to express its solidarity with the victims and their families. At 12 noon a minute of silence was held in front of all centres.