The URV research, based on data from over 33,000 students in Spain, links the adolescent pornography consumption to problematic Internet use, substance use, family conflict and certain risky sexual behaviours
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The British magazine The Architectural Review awards recognise the most outstanding emerging practices in world architecture
A study by URV shows how overtourism disrupts the rhythms and routines of residents in the most overcrowded neighbourhoods due to the influx of visitors
The URV professor is one of seven members of the scientific group that will analyse the impact of European regulation on the clean technology industry
29/09/2026
What causes evictions?
The Spanish Government is negotiating a housing decree to be approved by the Council of Ministers following protests over recent evictions. Sergio Nasarre explains the legal grounds for evictions and the effects of housing policy in recent years
The international conference, organised by the Department of Catalan Studies, takes several balls parlats to the streets, where they reinterpret and modernise the role that patriarchy has traditionally assigned to women
Jorba, who teaches in the URV’s Department of Medicine and Surgery and is clinical director of General and Digestive Surgery at Joan XXIII Hospital, is the ninth person from Spain to be honoured by the world’s largest association of surgeons
More than 4,000 people filled Plaça Corsini over two days to experience science across all its disciplines. Nearly 300 researchers ran around 50 science workshops
35 female professors have taken advantage of a programme designed to reduce the impact of motherhood on their academic careers. It grants them a semester without teaching duties so they can devote themselves exclusively to research after the birth of a child
The cooperation project aims to institutionalise the frameworks to ensure the emotional wellbeing and support of students and staff at An-Najah National University
The thesis has been recognized by the European Commission and defines the competencies needed by students for careers in industry and entrepreneurship
The international programme has received €4.6 million to fund students to undertake placements at three European universities
A URV study has optimised a process to extract oil from spent coffee grounds, enabling the recovery of almost 90% of the yield obtained by other techniques, but with fewer impurities and with the remainder of the biomass able to be repurposed for new uses
The excavations by the URV and IPHES-CERCA have also found the remains, seemingly intact, of other animals such as a horse, a woolly mammoth and at least three bears
Researchers from the URV answer key questions about the consequences and challenges of the increased frequency and intensity of heatwaves for ecosystems, infrastructure, health, public activities, tourism and agriculture
10/07/2026
Under the shadow of the Moon
The total solar eclipse of 12 August 2026 will be a once in a lifetime event, and the URV has turned it into a scientific outreach opportunity by organising events that explore the phenomenon in a way that cuts across disciplines and highlights different ways of understanding the world
It hasn’t happened in over a century. The last total eclipse visible from Catalonia was in 1905, and it will happen again on 12 August 2026. From 19.35,
A URV study analyses 29 substances in commercial products sold in Tarragona for the first time and concludes that the levels detected do not pose a significant health risk
A URV study finds that tourists who move around by car are also happy to use public transport in certain circumstances, thus presenting an opportunity for policies that boost destinations’ competitiveness and reduce the sector’s environmental impact
30/06/2026
Technology in the classroom
The URV, through its the interdisciplinary ARGET research group, seeks to harness technological advances and digital tools to enhance teaching
Since its creation, the ARGET research group at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili has specialised in education and technology and in keeping up to date with the technological innovations that can improve and support teaching and learning processes. The researchers’ aim is to find ways of applying these innovations, but only once they have been scientifically proven to be appropriate and
The technique combines near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy and chemometric tools to differentiate historic and modern specimens samples of red squirrel skulls and mandibles without damaging the specimens