Agustín Mihi, a researcher with the Nephos researcher group at the URV’s Department of Electronic, Electrical and Automatic Engineering, has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). The grant is worth 1.5 million euros over a period of five years and is for a project to create photonic structures for controlling the propagation of light in emerging technologies such as solar cells, sensors and the next generation of LEDs
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The 100 under 50 ranking, which is compiled by the journal “Times Higher Education”, has placed the URV in 80th position in its list of the top 100 universities in the world under the age of 50. It is the second year running that the URV features in the top 100 of this ranking, which has been conducted since 2012
The URV’s management team sends its heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims and the management team of Moi University in Eldoret (Kenya), to which Garissa University College belongs
The aim of the visit from the University of Porto was to learn how to set up and manage study abroad programmes
Two URV undergraduate students will attend the International Chinese Language Program during the second term of the academic year 2014-15
12/02/2015
Fruitful visit from Dayeh University Taiwan
Mr Adolfo Wu, a lecturer in European languages at the Dayeh University Taiwan and former URV student, visited the URV
11/02/2015
The URV visits India
The aim of this mission was to see the reality of these universities first hand and explore the possibilities of Indian students enrolling at the URV
11/02/2015
Catalan universities in Brussels
At the beginning of every year, most Catalan universities make a group trip to attend the seminar “What’s New In Brussels?”
The four Chinese students from Shenzhen Polytechnic University (SZPT) had spent a whole semester at our university
The doctoral thesis “From the projected to the transmitted image: The 2.0 construction of tourist destination image and identity in Catalonia” authored by Dr. Estela Mariné Roig under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Salvador Anton Clavé within the Doctoral Program in Tourism and Leisure of the Rovira i Virgili University has been selected as the winner of the International Federation for Information Technologies and Travel & Tourism (IFITT) Thesis Excellence Award for a Doctoral Thesis. Among the competing nominees, the Dr. Estela Mariné´s thesis stood out for its innovativeness, scientific rigor, and relevance to the tourism field
Stella Junior is an initiative of the Compostela Group of Universities (CGU) that aims to increase the employability of university students, to make the CGU member universities better known and to support the training mobility of students all over the world
More than 500 URV students have submitted their applications for the Erasmus+ programme and the MOU (non-European) exchange programmes during the first round for studies and traineeships for the next academic year 2015/16
21/01/2015
Visit of Cairo University to URV
Fatma Ashour, from Cairo University, visited the URV on 21 January. The aim of the visit was to move forward in various academic projects with the School of Engineering (ETSE) and the School of Chemical Engineering (ETSEQ). Cairo University and URV have been cooperating closely for many years
15/01/2015
Seminar on the Chinese university system
On 15 January the Association of Catalan Public Universities (ACUP in its Catalan accronym) organized a seminar on “The Chinese university system: finding avenues of collaboration between China and Catalonia”, which was held at the Technical University of Catalonia on its Barcelona Campus.
The JEDI-ACE project (Japanese-European De-Icing Aircraft Collaborative Exploration) is a joint R+D programme between Europe and Japan that studies how to detect, prevent and eliminate the build-up of ice on certain parts of aircraft.