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The Epiteugma Revved Up team from Cyprus wins the FIRST Tech Challenge Championship Spain
The Epiteugma Revved Up team from Cyprus won the FIRST Tech Challenge Championship Spain, which was held at the American School of Barcelona last weekend. The team won the 'Inspire Award,' which gives them the opportunity to travel to the United States and participate in...
The UVic is the venue for three international conferences this spring
More than 190 representatives of faculties and higher education centres in the field of health and social studies from 20 European countries will be attending the annual meeting of the Consortium of Institutes of High Education in Health and Rehabilitation (COHEHRE) on the Vic campus...
A study by Gonzalo Flores shows physical education teachers' perspectives on conflicts in multicultural schools
Physical Education classes in multicultural schools do not involve more conflicts than in Catalonia's others schools, and those that do arise are not triggered by the students' cultural differences but by other factors, such as families' socio-economic problems and the lack of attention that some...
7,129 wintering aquatic birds are identified in the Ripollès, Osona and La Selva regions in the annual count of these birds in the high Ter river
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...
A study co-authored by Javier Martínez-Picado reports the world's second case of remission of HIV without anti-retroviral drugs
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...
Marta Rivera attends the institutional event to mark of the International Women's Day at the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities
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...
The BETA Technology Centre presents the tools for the H2020 INTCATCH project at the Catalan Water Partnership Innovation Forum
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 forum promotes...
The Migratoebre project brings four sturgeons to the Ebro half a century after their disappearance
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. These are the first specimens of this species that...
A study warns of the need to return to indigenous and local practices to conserve pollinators
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. That is the warning given by the study "Biocultural approaches to...
Jordi Collet - the new vice-rector for Research and Knowledge Transfer
The doctor of Sociology and researcher of the Education Research group, Jordi Collet, is the new vice-rector for Research and Knowledge Transfer of the UVic-UCC. This afternoon, on the proposal of the rector, he was appointed by the Executive Committee of the Balmes University Foundation...