A mobile application will allow foreign visiting students and staff to communicate with the 112 emergency services number through an app in situations where a voice call is impossible. The app uses pictograms to depict the most common emergencies. The agreement was signed at the Rector’s Offices on 14 April
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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
Researchers at the URV and the Pere Virgili Health Research Institute (IISPV) have discovered why people with obesity not only accumulate glycogen in their muscles and liver, like other people, but also store it in their adipocytes, the cells that make up body fat. These fat cells stop working properly, causing the individual to develop insulin resistance and, potentially, type 2 diabetes. This is the first time that this metabolic pathway has been described and it makes glycogen a new player within the pathology of obesity
IBER, the URV spin-off, will offer guided and dramatized tours of the Jewish quarter and other important areas of the medieval city. The aim is for these two tours to become a regular part of the city’s cultural calendar. Furthermore, the members of IBER, who are all researchers at the URV, have applied their knowledge of history and archaeology to the production of a craft beer using the brewing techniques of the ancient Iberians, with the aim of bringing ancient cuisine to the general public
The ranking 150 under 50 by Times Higher Education has put the URV in 83rd position in the list of the 150 best universities in the world under the age of fifty. It is the third year running that URV has featured in this ranking, which has been conducted since 2012
Thirteen Japanese students participated in a Study Abroad training activity in Tarragona from 12 to 20 March in which they formed two groups. Whilst the first group studied various aspects of human mobility and human rights, the second investigated nursing care and visits to health facilities in the Tarragona area
The Confucius Institute Foundation of Barcelona has recognised the URV as an authorised centre for the official Chinese language tests, which will take place in June and will be repeated once every year. The decision was announced as part of the agreement that the URV has had with this institution since 2014. The Institute’s directors visited the University on 11 March after holding a meeting to discuss strengthening and expanding the partnership between the two institutions
Amadeu Altafaj had a meeting with various representatives of the URV and gave a talk on training programs and grant opportunities in the EU
URV I-Global adapts the URV to the new mobility forms that have emerged in the new context of international education
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The URV welcomes its new exchange students
The URV organises a welcome party for international exchange students in the 2nd semester
The universities signed two collaboration agreements on 4th of February at the Rector’s Offices of the URV. The first agreement establishes doctoral training for the academic staff of the UVM within the framework of the URV’s doctoral programmes. The second establishes a framework for joint development cooperation and social innovation
The Algerian university is interested in sharing experiences and undergraduate and doctoral joint programmes in intercultural dialogue, tourism and social and political sciences
The 9th Seminar of the EUA-CDE on Doctoral supervision, practices and responsibilities, held in the Netherlands saw the URV’s Postgraduate and Doctoral School playing a leading role in the session entitled Engaging and training supervisors, which discussed the process of professionalising doctoral supervision
In February, two researchers from the URV’s Centre for Climate Change (C3) attended the 3rd General Assembly of the UERRA project in Toulouse.
The items discussed during the meeting were approved by the Governing Board
The article “Targeting administrative staff” highlights the URV’s internationalisation programmes for its administrative staff as an example of good practice. The article was published in the latest edition of this international magazine, which is dedicated to Internationalisation at Home
On 1 February Sergio Nasarre participated in the Conference on Covered Bonds in Brussels. He was invited by the Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union of the European Commission to give a presentation, during which he reported on the advantages of harmonising covered bonds across Europe
On Wednesday January 27th, the URV was visited by a delegation from the Université Mohamed Premier in Oujda, Morocco. The delegation was led by the head of the Department of Geology and two fellow researchers and took part in intensive working meetings with the IPHES (Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution)
The Association wishes to collaborate more closely with the URV
The collaboration between the groups of Prof. Francisco J. Andrade (URV) and Prof. Pau Ballester (ICIQ) has allowed the development of the first effective sensor for the selective potentiometric detection of creatinine in body fluids