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Marta Rivera, the director of the Chair in Agroecology and Food Systems at the University of Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC), will be part of an international working group that will be advising the European Commission on the transition to sustainable food systems.

The University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC), the Faculty of Medicine and the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology research centre (VHIO) signed an agreement at the University's Faculty of Medicine at noon last Wednesday. The agreement, which encompasses academic aspects as well as research and knowledge transfer, was signed by the president of the Foundation for Advanced Health Sciences Studies (FESS), Josep Arimany, the rector of the UVic-UCC, Josep-Eladi Baños, and the director of VHIO, Josep Tabernero.

The Mental Health Chair of the UVic-UCC will be cooperating with the organisation of the fifth Spanish Congress on Behavioural Disturbances, which will take place on 23 May at the Palau de Congressos de Barcelona (in the Fira trade fair area in Montjuïc).

The UVic-UCC, with its alumni Verónica Mosquera and Rubén Hidalgo, are the three owners of the University's first patent. They have licensed it to the company LAINCO, which specialises in the commercialisation and development of phytosanitary and pharmaceutical products.

Participating in an Erasmus programme encourages positive opinions about the European Union (EU) among the students taking part, and reinforces the existence of a shared public sphere. In other words, people who have had this type of academic experience tend to learn more about European events and maintain a network of international friendships. This is one of the conclusions of the study El viaje en la esfera pública europea.

The rivers and streams of the Osona region are of high biological quality, according to the regular evaluation of the ecological condition of the river courses in the region, which has been carried out once again this year by the Mediterranean Rivers Studies Centre  (CERM) at the UVic-UCC, which is also associated with the Ter Museum in Manlleu.

The Beta Technology Centre has obtained three new TECNIOspring grants in the latest ACCIÓ call. These grants provide financial support to the centres in the TECNIO network for the recruitment of doctoral research personnel, to carry out applied research projects for periods of two years.

The Epiteugma Revved Up team from Cyprus won the FIRST Tech Challenge Championship Spain, which was held at the American School of Barcelona last weekend. The team won the 'Inspire Award,' which gives them the opportunity to travel to the United States and participate in the international final in Detroit from 24 to 27 April.

More than 190 representatives of faculties and higher education centres in the field of health and social studies from 20 European countries will be attending the annual meeting of the Consortium of Institutes of High Education in Health and Rehabilitation (COHEHRE) on the Vic campus of the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic -UCC) from 3 to 5 April.

Physical Education classes in multicultural schools do not involve more conflicts than in Catalonia's others schools, and those that do arise are not triggered by the students' cultural differences but by other factors, such as families' socio-economic problems and the lack of attention that some children receive.