March 8, 2026 to make visible, acknowledge and advance: institutional event and activities at the UAB

The day will begin with an opening address by Rector Javier Lafuente Sancho and will continue with a presentation by Secretary General Esther Zapater on the main lines of work and gender equality policies at the UAB. This year, the central moment of the event will be the recognition of the career and contribution of Dr Maria Prats Ferret, former director of the Observatory for Equality (now the Equality and Diversity Service) and member of the Research Group on Geography and Gender (UAB), for her sustained work aimed at consolidating a feminist perspective in geography and promoting gender mainstreaming within the discipline, with a significant impact on both research and teaching. The event will conclude with a performance by the UAB Chamber Choir. 

This initiative forms part of the V Action Plan for Gender Equality of the UAB and fulfils the measure that provides for organisation of an institutional event to mark International Working Women’s Day. Included already in the first Action Plan (2006), this measure represented a turning point, as it institutionalised for the first time at the UAB the commemoration of 8 March. In its early editions, a substantial part of the day was devoted to presenting data on the situation of women at the university, with the aim of contrasting the perception of the university environment as a space free of inequalities with evidence showing unbalanced distributions in certain responsibilities and activities.  

Now, the initiative preserves this spirit of diagnosis and visibility while renewing it with a broader and more collective perspective: an invitation to recognition, but also to continue learning, questioning and transforming in everyday lie, what often remains invisible. In this sense, the event also becomes a platform and a driving force for the awareness-raising activities that the UAB carries out throughout the academic year. 

[You can register to attend by clicking here.] 

Below you can also find the programme of events and activities taking place at the UAB around 8 March. 

5th of march

• Faculty of Psicology and Logopedia

📍From 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. – Room 115, Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Per a una justícia reparadora de violències sexuals a Guatemala i Hondures. 

Dialogue/exchange with Honduran activist Cintia Julissa and Maya community therapist Elsa Rabanales. 

Organised by SUDS, Feminisms. 

6th of march

• Faculty of Medicine

📍From 12:00 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. – Aula M5‑001 (Basic Medical Sciences Unit) 

Institutional welcome by Albert Selva O’Callaghan, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, followed by the talks: 

“The incomplete gaze: gender and systemic blindness in health” by Teresa Font 

“Deciding from vulnerability: experiences of reproductive decision‑making in women living with HIV” by Ariadna Huertas Zurriaga 

“Situations of workplace violence in the practice of physiotherapy” by Marlen Moreno Martínez 

Finally, presentation of the Equality and Diversity Service and the Awards for Final Degree Projects with a gender perspective, by Lydia Giménez Llort. 

11th of march

• Faculty of Science

📍From 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. – Sala d’Actes 

Optica’t (@opticat), a student association from the Faculty of Science, has organised a round table on women’s scientific leadership, featuring six researchers from the fields of Science, Biosciences and Engineering 

• Faculty of Biosciences

📍From 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. – Sala d’Actes 

Optica’t (@opticat), a student association from the Faculty of Science, has organised a round table on women’s scientific leadership, featuring six researchers from the fields of Science, Biosciences and Engineering 

Throughout the month of March 

• Faculty of Economics and Business 

📍Bellaterra Campus and Sabadell Campus 

Exhibition of the TFG of degrees of the Faculty of Economics and Business that in previous editions have been awarded as the best TFG with a gender perspective.