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The count of wintering aquatic birds in the high Ter river basin identified a total of 7,129 birds, according to the conclusions of this activity coordinated by the Mediterranean Rivers Studies Centre at the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC), the environmental area of the

Last Tuesday, the journal Nature published the case of a person harbouring HIV who underwent a stem cell transplant to treat a lymphoma, and who has been in remission from the virus for 18 months, despite not receiving anti-retroviral treatment. This is the second case in the world after the "Berlin Patient" reported in 2009, as since then, every time the treatment had been withdrawn after a transplant, the virus has returned within a year.

On Thursday morning, the director of the Chair in Agroecology and Food Systems at the UVic-UCC, Marta Rivera, participated in the institutional event organised by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities to mark International Women's Day. The purpose of the event was to highlight the role of innovative female scientists who are leading the fight against climate change.

Lorenzo Proia and Laia Llenas, researchers at the BETA Technology Centre, presented the tools developed as part of the H2020 INTCATCH project at the third Water Sector Innovation Forum, which the Catalan Water Partnership (CWP) held last Thursday in Barcelona.

The facilities of the IRTA (Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology) in Sant Carles de la Ràpita are now home to four European sea sturgeons (Acipenser sturio) that were brought there from France last week.

We need to recover and apply the strategies of various local communities and indigenous peoples around the world to conserve and protect pollinators, such as bees, butterflies, moths, some bird species, and bats.

"ULudoteca - work support space" is the socially committed gender equality project at the UVic-UCC that received the most votes, with 48.8% support from the members of the community that participated in the selection process.

Five years after the Balmes University Foundation and the Bages University Foundation signed a federation agreement to create a federated university structure, the presidents of the two foundations, the mayor of Vic, Anna Erra, and the mayor of Manresa, Valentí Junyent, today presented the new agreeme

The university's activities that take place in the city of Vic contribute 110 million Euros to the Catalan economy, and create 1,942 direct and indirect jobs, according to the main conclusions of the report on the economic impact of the Vic campus of the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC) that was presented at a press conference today.

Catalonia's medium-sized towns have lower levels of wage inequality than Barcelona and its metropolitan area.