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The number of new entrance registrations for official study programmes at the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC) has increased by 8% in the 2020-2021 academic year, to a total of 3,216 students.

According to the Catalonia Waste Agency (ARC), 911,480 tonnes of waste was generated by the food industry in Catalonia in 2018. One of the challenges facing the sector is how to optimise the management of the waste it generates and lower the economic and environmental cost this entails by minimising its transport and obtaining by-products with high added value.

A school must be a place where children live naturally with diversity, and where all children have the same opportunities for growth and learning, without any distinction on the grounds of disability, gender, religion or race, or any other reason. Conflicts that hinder inclusion may be latent in the early stages of formal education, such as at primary school, and may not become readily apparent until later. That is why teachers must have tools in the classroom enabling them to identify these hidden problems and prevent future situations of exclusion.

The UVic-UCC inaugurated the 2020-2021 academic year this afternoon, with an unusual event in hybrid format in the Aula Magna. Only 52 people were able to attend in person due to the current restrictions on capacity, while another 200 people followed the event, which was streamed on the University’s YouTube channel.

Researchers at the UVic-UCC Sport and Physical Activity Studies Centre (CEEAF) writing in the journal The Physician and Sports Medicine have recently published an internationally pioneering article on the post-exercise recovery strategies used by the teams in the first division of the Spanish league (La Liga), which is considered one of the top five in the world.

The University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC), with the University of Barcelona and the Autonomous University of Barcelona, is offering a 15-credit online specialist course on Car-T therapy, which is considered the most advanced therapy currently available in the fight against acute leukaemia and other haematological cancers.

Doing 150 minutes of physical activity of moderate intensity (brisk walking or dancing, for example) or 75 minutes of vigorous activity (running or other sports) a week, as recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), reduces the risk of mortality by 16%. At the same time, it reduces the risk of cardiovascular mortality and cardiovascular accidents by 27%.

This Friday, the book entitled Sport, Globalisation and Identity. New Perspectives on Regions and Nations (Routledge, 2020) will be published, an academic work that reviews some of the most controversial aspects of the relationship between sport and politics in times of globalisation and reformulation of national identities.

Over the past few decades, cities in the Mediterranean arc have been experiencing progressive population growth and concentration and an increase in construction and tourism. The limits to growth faced by these urban environments means that proper waste management is key to guaranteeing a healthy living environment. In Catalonia alone, almost 4 million tonnes of waste are generated, of which more than a third is organic waste.

Flash floods occur as a result of heavy and short-lived rainfall, which appears suddenly at a local level, and is difficult to predict. These floods mainly affect small basins with steep gradients, which are characteristics that apply to 70% of Catalonia's river networks and 100% of those in the Balearic Islands. These are also very destructive phenomena which have become increasingly common in recent decades as a result of climate change.