Issue 2 of the UCampus magazine is available now

This week saw the publication of issue 2 of UCampus, the institutional magazine of UVic-UCC, which is available in three languages: Catalan, Spanish and English. This issue includes interviews with the president of the Balmes University Foundation and Mayor of Vic, Anna Erra, the director of the Chair in Agroecology and Food Systems, Marta Rivera-Ferré, and the filmmaker and former student Ariadna Seuba Serra. You can also read an in-depth report on the impact of Covid-19 on the day-to-day running of UVic-UCC, and how the institution has coped over the last few months from various points of view.

The magazine also includes a report on the latest studies of the social value and socio-economic impact of the University on its surrounding area and on Catalonia as a whole, and covers issues such as the Professional Campus, where the institution teaches higher level vocational training programmes in a university environment, the CISARC Simulation Innovation Centre in Manresa, the cultural activities of UVic-UCC, and the past, the present and the future of the Emboirats castellers group, which has celebrated its tenth anniversary this academic year.

UCampus is a continuation of the magazine Campus, which began life in the 1990-1991 academic year as the voice of University Studies at Vic, and subsequently of the University of Vic. Its second era began in 2006 when the format was changed, and it became a quarterly full-colour magazine, aimed primarily at an external audience (students' families, internship centres and collaborating institutions). The current Ucampus marks a change in the approach to university news at the UVic-UCC, as focuses on the main areas of university life - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and social and institutional responsibility.

The U placed before the word Campus in this new format is the identifying logo of the UVic-UCC, and is a typographical feature bringing together the UVic and UManresa campuses and the UGranollers base. UCampus will appear twice a year, and will highlight the most important aspects of the university that may be of interest to a wider international audience.