Susana Borràs, a researcher from the Department of Public Law of the URV, took part in COP28 as an expert in Rights of Nature. In this article, she assesses the resulting agreement, which is still far from the safety threshold recommended by the scientific community
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The URV has arranged the first virtual fair of International Collaborative Learning Online (COIL). The fair is intended for teachers of the Aurora network who want to implement the methodology and internationalize their subjects
At times of high political, institutional or military uncertainty, prices become highly volatile (often rising) and the stock markets go into turmoil, as has happened with the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
The Service Learning Toolbox is now in the public domain. It provides relevant information, tools and resources in order to improve and extend the use of the Service Learning method
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson for their advances in auction theory and for inventing new auction formats to the benefit of buyers, sellers and contributors around the world
10/10/2020
Feeding peace
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has won the Nobel Peace Prize 2020 for its efforts to fight hunger in the world and especially in conflict zones, “avoiding the use of hunger as the weapon of war”
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
08/10/2020
The copy & paste of molecular biology
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna, in recognition of their research into “molecular scissors”, which can rewrite the code of life
07/10/2020
The irresistible attraction of black holes
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 has been to Roger Penrose “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity” and to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy”
06/10/2020
The discoverers of the hepatitis C virus
The Nobel Prize has been awarded to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice, who have had a significant impact on improving global health. Thanks to their discovery, there are now highly sensitive blood tests that enable hepatitis C to be eliminated after a blood transfusion