The different BIPs (Blended Intensive Programs) have addressed, among other topics, the improvement of the quality of doctoral research and academic supervision, as well as the internationalization of curricula
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31/10/2025
Research with a direct impact
The URV Industrial Doctorates programme offers students the chance to prepare their thesis while working at a company, allowing them to gain experience in a real working environment and acquire highly valued skills, while at the same time helping to boost the competitiveness of the business sector and the technological and social progress of the region
Ivan Hortigüela has always wanted to ensure that his academic work is not confined to a computer screen, but rather that it also has a
11/01/2024
Artificial intelligence fails in grammar
A research project led by the URV in conjunction with the UAB shows that human beings recognize grammatical errors in a sentence while AI does not
Stanford University has updated its list of leading researchers with data from the year 2022. The URV ranks third in Spain and Catalonia in terms of the percentage of researchers among the permanent teaching and research staff
The finding has been confirmed in an experiment by researchers from the URV, the University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, who propose a new approach to the debate on the advantages and disadvantages of bilingualism: a good performance in one area of linguistic ability may mean lower accuracy or speed in another, and vice-versa
17/02/2021
Italian students train online at the URV
This week sees the start of the first online version of the URV’s Study Abroad programme, involving 53 students in Translation from the Università Ca’Foscari Venezia. The course is the result of collaboration between Ester Torres, coordinator of the University Master’s Degree in Professional English-Spanish Translation, and the Italian university
09/10/2020
Contemplating Light and Darkness
The choice of Louise Glück for the Nobel prize for literature this year is one that many poets have openly celebrated. She is a poets’ poet, and certainly as good as any poet writing today. Writing, that is, in a voice that is uniquely her own, and yet of universal appeal
The move online and the opportunity to study part-time help students as they prepare for their professional careers
Half of the URV’s 55 university masters offered in 2020-21 will be taught online or combination of online and classroom-based learning (blended) or will allow students to decide if they want to study in the classroom or online. Pre-registration is now open on the University’s website
The researcher has also joined the International Evaluation Committee of WordCall, the international association of teachers and researchers in the field of computer-assisted language learning
The URV former student and translator for the European Commission, Helena Romero, shares her experience in sessions with students at the University
Alba Buendía is a student on the URV’s Bachelor’s Degree in English and has spinal muscular atrophy, a disease that leads to the loss of muscle mass. For this reason she has started a crowd funding campaign so that she can get the assistance she needs in order to complete her studies at York Saint John University (United Kingdom)
Alba Buendía, student on the Bachelor’s Degree in English
She is the first person in Spain to have been awarded the Snorri Sturluson Fellowship grant for researchers, writers and translators
Researchers at the URV have adapted to Kiswahili an app originally developed for improving English reading skills (StratApp). Students can improve their reading skills in this language by playing with the app
“In search of new harmonies” is the slogan of the 19th international conference of the Utopian Studies Society-Europe which was organised for the third time by the University
It is a top-level international scientific meeting featuring previously unpublished papers and presentations by renowned linguists
21 students on the Doctoral Degree in Humanistic Studies present their research during a series of seminars to exchange knowledge and solve problems through interactions with fellow students
URV was awarded by the European Comission an Erasmus + KA2 Strategic Partnership project aimed at developing a StrategiesApp (StratApp) in order to improve English academic reading skills of university students