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The BETA Technological Center will identify tools to reduce the risk of flash floods due to climate change
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%...
Helpdesk schedule for the holiday period
From 3 to 21 August, during the holiday period, there will be a helpdesk and mail collection service, Monday - Friday, at Building F Reception, Miramarges (Carrer
de la Sagrada Família, 7).
The process of designing a place brand can be a tool in urban governance for creating a unique narrative of identity
The brand 'Vic, a city with a human dimension,' which was presented in 2015 and implemented over the next four years, created an interface for structuring the entire narrative of the capital of the Osona region, placing the citizen and quality of life at the...
A project lead by BETA Technology Center will involve Marine Protected Areas in the management and monitoring of sea turtle nesting in the western Mediterranean
Marine protected areas will be used as a starting point for the management and monitoring of sea turtle nests in the western Mediterranean. That is the basis of the COMING project, the latest initiative led by the BETA Technology Center of the University of Vic...
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...
A European project lead by BETA Technological Center is promoting new models of urban organic waste management in the Mediterranean region
Cities in the Mediterranean region have been facing a gradual increase and concentration in their population and an increase in construction and tourism for decades. The limits on growth that these urban environments have to cope with means that appropriate waste management is crucial in...
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 social value of UVic-UCC is 9.5 times greater than the grants it receives
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
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...