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The countries of the Mediterranean region are facing challenges as a result of unsustainable human activity, including the decline of natural resources, climate change, water scarcity, the growth of urban environments and rising pollution levels. At the same time, positions with a Mediterranean perspective are not always adopted when European environmental policies are defined. In this context, the European Green Growth community was established three years ago.

The number of new entrance registrations for official study programmes at the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC) has increased by 3% in the 2019-2020 academic year.

The use and commercialisation of disposable plastics has increased significantly in recent decades. These plastics are difficult to manage after they have been used and converted to waste, and as a result they are now scattered across the environment, with harmful effects on ecosystems and biodiversity all over the world, and a particular impact on aquatic ecosystems. In fact, estimates suggest that 80% of the plastic materials that reach the sea originate on land, and they are transported directly into the sea by river networks.

The BETA Technology Centre (Biodiversity, Ecology and Technology, and Environmental and Food Management) at the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC) has experienced exponential growth in just five years, since its inauguration on 14 November 2014. From initial revenues amounting to less than 200,000 euros, it will end 2019 with more than 1.3 million euros, and more than 2 million euros are forecast for 2020.

Effluents from abandoned mines may contain high concentrations of heavy metals or salts, which leak through the soil and end up in rivers, where they have a significant impact on the biodiversity and functioning of those ecosystems.

The University Senate of the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC) has voted to endorse the joint manifesto of some Catalan universities rejecting the convictions of Catalan political prisoners and the judicialisation of politics, with 223 votes in favour, 10 votes against and 8 blank ballots.

University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia has held its institutional ceremony to open the academic year 2019-2020. This was the second time that this event has been held in UManresa since the federation agreement was signed 5 years ago.

El Sucre building in Vic will host the ninth R+D+I ICT Health and Social Seminar, the fourth to be held in the capital of the Osona region, which is entitled “Virtual and augmented reality: the technology that is transforming the present”. The UVic-UCC and the ITC Health Social Foundation, with other healthcare institutions, are organising seminars over the coming days that are expected to be attended by more than 170 people, and most of them are healthcare and technology professionals.

At its meeting today, on Tuesday 15 October, the Board of the Rector's Office of University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC), wishes to express its disagreement with the ruling of the Spanish Supreme Court. It regrets that prison sentences have been the response to a problem that is of a political rather than a legal nature.

Attention, reading and writing skills, working memory, numerical processing and calculation are key cognitive processes in learning. Poor performance in these areas is related to school failure, and although Spain is one of the three European countries with the highest school failure rates, there are currently few scientifically validated methods for early detection in these processes.