{"id":15997,"date":"2016-02-29T12:41:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T11:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/?p=15997"},"modified":"2016-02-29T12:41:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T11:41:44","slug":"the-catalan-governments-permanent-representative-to-the-eu-visits-the-urv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/the-catalan-governments-permanent-representative-to-the-eu-visits-the-urv\/","title":{"rendered":"The Catalan Government\u2019s Permanent Representative to the EU visits the URV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amadeu Altafaj, the Catalan Government\u2019s Permanent Representative to the European Union, visited the Universitat Rovira i Virgili on 19 February at the invitation of the URV\u2019s Vice-Rector for Internationalisation Mar Guti\u00e9rrez-Col\u00f3n, following her visit of the Catalan Delegation during her trip to Brussels in January. Altafaj met the head of the Research, Transfer and Innovation area Ignasi Salvad\u00f3, the director of the International Center Marina Casals and the Vicerector. During a meeting in which they worked on ways to improve the presence of the URV in the European Union higher education and research projects.<\/p>\n

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In addition to this working meeting, Amadeu Altafaj gave a talk to the university community: \u201cCatalonia, a present and future in Europe\u201d in the Aula Magna in Campus Catalunya. The purpose of the talk was to present the offices and functions of the Catalan Government\u2019s Delegation at the EU\u00a0 and the extent of its activities in European policy. Altafaj also introduced the European Union\u2019s principal stakeholders and described how together the EU\u2019s institutions form an ecosystem made up of diverse commissions, delegations, agencies, tribunals and foreign associations.<\/p>\n

Special attention was given to the work opportunities and grants offered by both the Catalan Government and the European Commission. These include the Canig\u00f3 Grants to fund internships in international organisations<\/a>, grants to stay with Catalan communities abroad<\/a>, grants for internships at Catalan Government delegations abroad<\/a> and grants for internships with the Catalan Government\u2019s Delegation to the European Union<\/a>. After the presentation the audience was invited to ask questions, after which Mr Altafaj attended a lunch with a URV delegation headed by the Rector Josep Anton Ferr\u00e9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amadeu Altafaj had a meeting with various representatives of the URV and gave a talk on training programs and grant opportunities in the EU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[228,82,229,196],"tags":[2475,1264,2476],"class_list":["post-15997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about-urv","category-general-en","category-institution","category-international","tag-european-union","tag-generalitat-de-catalunya","tag-scholarships"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}