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Marta Rivera: "The food system is directly related to climate change and the emergence of pandemics"

Marta Rivera, director of the Chair in Agroecology and Food Systems at UVic-UCC, took part in the debate on "Covid-19, a challenge for planetary health," which discussed the relationship between planetary health and the Covid-19 pandemic. The round table discussion was part of...

UVic-UCC rises 10 places and is now ranked twentieth in the CyD Ranking of Spanish universities

The University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC) ranks twentieth in the latest CyD Ranking, which covers the 76 universities in Spain and was published yesterday by the Fundación Conocimiento y Desarrollo, which compiles it every year. According to these figures and the...

The social value of UVic-UCC is 9.5 times greater than the grants it receives

The first social value report of the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC), entitled Anàlisi del Valor Social de la UVic-UCC del curs 2017-2018 [Analysis of the Social Value of the UVic-UCC for the 2017-2018 academic year], has studied and monetised the...

A Catalan-led European research project will involve caregivers of people with Alzheimer's in creating ICT tools to make their lives easier

About 50 million people worldwide are currently suffering from dementia, and 10 million new cases are identified every year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which considers it an increasingly common chronic disease. In this context, a European research project has just been launched...

The BETA Technological Center is participating in a project to enhance the success of nesting episodes of the loggerhead sea turtle on Mediterranean coasts

Maximising the success of nesting episodes by the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) on Spanish coast is the main goal of a new project involving the BETA Technology Center of the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC), which is co-financed...

A scientific report by the European Commission calls for a radical change in the European food system to ensure its sustainability

The current European food system has complex social, economic and ecological components, and needs a radical transformation in order to make them sustainable in the long term. That is one of the conclusions of the report entitled A sustainable food system for the European Union...

A new finding in the fight against AIDS is named after two UVic-UCC researchers

Christian Brander and Javier Martínez Picado, researchers in the Chair in Infectious Diseases and Immunity at UVic-UCC, are part of a team of scientists who have found a link between HIV and macrophages - the cells that the virus uses as reservoirs to subsequently reproduce...

The UVic-UCC Chair in Palliative Care produces a directory of COVID-19 resources

The Chair in Palliative Care at the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC) and the Catalan Oncology Institute (ICO) has produced a directory containing important documentation and resources on the COVID-19 pandemic. These materials have been produced to the highest scientific...

UVic-UCC leads a consensus document of recommendations for ethical and clinical decision-making in residences in the context of COVID-19

Palliative care is the legally stipulated care for people suffering from the advanced stages of a chronic disease or who are in a situation where their life is coming to an end. This type of care involves optimising the quality of life of the patient...

UVic-UCC becomes a one hundred percent online university and transfers its entire academic activity to the Internet

Two weeks after moving to online teaching as a result of the suspension of face-to-face academic activities due to the coronavirus outbreak, classes on all bachelor's degree courses at the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC) are continuing through a variety of...

Carlo Manzo is co-organising the AnDi Challenge, a scientific challenge to solve the problem of the anomalous diffusion of particles based on simple trajectories

The coordinator of the Quantitative Biolmaging research group (QuBi Lab) at UVic-UCC, Carlo Manzo, is organising the AnDi Challenge with members of other European universities and research centres. This scientific challenge is aimed at other researchers, and aims to bring the scientific community together to...

Mireia Bartrons and Sandra Brucet publish a study showing that bottom-up relationships are stronger than top-down trophic relationships in trophic networks in Europe lakes

All ecosystems, and aquatic ecosystems are no exception, are made up of different trophic levels, or in other words, several rings that make up a food chain. The predator-prey relationships between more than two of these levels are known as trophic cascades, and can significantly...

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