The conference will take place from 17 to 22 June in Madrid and hopes to attract up to 1000 researchers, engineers and experts in this sector
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Students from the School of Chemical Engineering, with their poster, take third prize in the Chem-E-Car Competition held in Barcelona as part of the World Congress of Chemical Engineering
The American university already collaborates by sending students to the URV for the summer research programme and faculty-led programmes
The Brazilian delegation met with representatives of the International Center to study possible ways of collaborating in the fields of engineering
These Engineering students have come to get to know the research being carried out at the URV and the industrial environment
Students from the College of Engineering at the American university completed an intensive programme from 23 May to 2 June
The “Young University Ranking” by Times Higher Education has put the URV in 76th place out of a list of the top 200 universities in the world under the age of fifty
This fourth year student from Agricultural Engineering has participated in the International Student Conference on Global Citizenship in Indonesia
The researchers are part of the Martí i Franquès COFUND Fellowship Programme which is jointly funded by the European Union as part of its Horizon 2020 programme. This new programme at the URV will recruit 25 predoctoral researchers this year and another 25 next year, all on three-year contracts. The call for applications is open from 15 February to 15 April 2017
On 16 December, the Universitat Rovira i Virgili once again hosted a visit from American universities participating in the annual activity organised by Eduespaña. In 2011 the URV was also visited by representatives from American universities through Eduespaña
29/11/2016
Quicker and twice as accurate predictions
With ever-increasing amounts of online information available, modelling and predicting individual preferences for certain products is becoming more and more important. Good predictions enable better advice to be given to users and provide a better understanding of the socio-psychological processes that determine those preferences. Researchers at the URV have created a new algorithm that provides better predictions than existing algorithms
This discovery may raise concerns about safety of nanomaterials for public health and may suggest to revise the security norms at nanoscale bringing attention to the safety of nanomaterials in general
The University and the CUCBA of the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) will work together to train Mexican doctoral students. During the autumn the rector of the CUCBA, Carlos Beas, visited the URV and the TecnATox research centre to work on the project for 2017
The University of Changzhou visited the URV in order to expand areas of study and collaboration between the two universities
This is one of the new collaborations with which the URV aims to expand its Study Abroad programmes
This is the first time the Universitat Rovira i Virgili appears on the ranking of the top 500 universities in the world by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), an internationally prestigious ranking compiled by the Jiao Tong University of Shanghai
For the fourth consecutive year engineering students from the University of Cairo have attended a Study Abroad programme at the URV which finished on 29 July. The students are assigned to three different courses at the School of Engineering and the School of Chemical Engineering
During the visit, professor Pradeep Mathur contacted various research groups and visited their laboratories and the Scientific Resources Service. The visit concluded with a meeting with the rector and the vice-rector for Scientific and Research Policy with a view to establishing future agreements
This American university visited the URV with a view to signing a mobility agreement. The object of FAMU’s visit was to learn more about the URV and the region and to discuss further collaboration between both institutions
The professor from the University of Michigan (76) is regarded as a towering figure in the world of chemical engineering for his outstanding career in teaching, research and technology transfer. His ideas have been a source of inspiration for the URV’s School of Chemical Engineering, which prompted the University to award him an honorary doctorate on 15 April in a ceremony at the Rector’s Offices