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Xènia Roviralta is a student at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. She is 24 years old and is in the final year of her degree in Food Bioprocess Engineering. She is also a representative on the Aurora Student Council, which gives support and advises the senior management of the universities that are part of the Aurora network to promote the common objectives.

Marouane Laabbas el Guennouni is an example of what students can achieve in European institutions because between March and July of this year he undertook a paid internship at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg. There, he was responsible for compiling the legal doctrine that would guide judges in resolving cases. He is this year’s UNICAT ambassador for the URV, a figure that exists in Catalan universities to inform students about job and internship opportunities in the EU.

Pilar Galán has helped create a bank of biological samples for understanding the mechanisms involved in the relationship between food and cardiovascular disease, cancer, obesity and diabetes and has launched food labels containing nutritional information.

We are now witnessing a new age of forest fires, more intense and devastating than ever before. The documentaries produced in collaboration with experts and with an approach that includes local communities are helping this phenomenon to be better understood in a context of climate change. Enric Castelló, researcher at the Department of Communication Studies (URV), coordinated a round table with filmmakers, journalists and experts in which they discussed the issue and commented international cases and experiences.