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Last Friday, 10 July, Jordi Borja i Sebastià passed away at the age of 85. Today, the Department of Geography remembers his years as a member of our Department, where he worked between 1970 and 1985.

You can now access Newsletter 84 (June 2026) from the Department of Geography.

The Department of Geography would like to congratulate its new Full Professors. Congratulations to you both!

You can now consult the Research Newsletter #4 (June 2026) of the Department of Geography.

Oriol Costa Roig has been awarded the Best Doctoral Thesis in Urban Geography Prize (4th edition), granted by the Urban Geography Working Group of the Spanish Association of Geography.

You can now access Newsletter 83 (May 2026) from the Department of Geography.

On May 20, the opening event for the exhibition of the projects resulting from the core project of the Master’s Degree in Territorial Studies and Planning was held in Puigcerdà. The exhibition can be visited until June 20 at the Cerdanya Regional Archive.

Professors Ricard Moren and Albert Pèlachs, from the Department, are participating in the European project LoupO Coexistence, launched on May 6 to promote compatibility between the presence of bears and wolves and rural activities in the Pyrenees.

Ameneh Alcalà and Ivan Campos achieved first place in the 11th edition of the European CASSINI Hackathons, an initiative promoted by the European Commission and the European Union Agency for the Space Programme to encourage innovative projects based on European space technologies.

You can now access Newsletter 82 (April 2026) from the Department of Geography.