The Chinese New Year began on 27 January and every year the URV joins in the festivities thanks to the large number of Chinese students who study here. This year the activities on the Catalunya Campus are extended into the afternoon and are also spread to other parts of the city from 26 January to 3 February
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The Erasmus+ and MOU mobility programmes bring some 200 students from around the world to the URV during the second semester 2016-17
26/01/2017
Training course to work with families
The course was an opportunity to know a tool that may be valuable to improve social work with families
The International Center of the URV will coordinate a three-year European project to promote internationalisation among the administrative staff of the participating institutions. Representatives of the URV and all the other project members met at the University on 16 and 17 January, in an initial meeting aimed at laying the groundwork for future collaboration
The booklet, in Spanish and English, is aimed at international visitors to the University and is the second joint initiative between the International Center and the Environment Plan
The director of the URV’s International Center has received the annual prize awarded by this network of universities since 2013 in recognition of her integrated, active, motivated and participative professional activity
On 16 December, the Universitat Rovira i Virgili once again hosted a visit from American universities participating in the annual activity organised by Eduespaña. In 2011 the URV was also visited by representatives from American universities through Eduespaña
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim (Norway) was chosen to host the network’s annual General Assembly and Liaison Officers’ Meeting. The URV has been a member of the network since 2007
Research by the URV has demonstrated, for the first time, that the polyphenols in grapes can re-establish the control mechanism that the brain has on appetite and which is altered in obesity. The study reports that adding these phenols to the diet of obese individuals, in conjunction with other therapies, would be a good strategy to reduce the appetite and the excess of body fat
An information session ons 24 October for students interested in mobility visits was transmitted to all URV campuses. Students can take advantage of the URV’s more than 700 international mobility agreements