The UAB leads this year's edition of the El Mundo ranking - in charge of analysing the 50 most popular university degrees in Spain - and is the university to have the most number of degrees in the first 5 positions, with a total of 24. The top UAB degrees include Veterinary Medicine, Audiovisual Communication, Advertising and Public Relations, Environmental Science and Political Science and Public Management.
The UAB Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, through the CORE in Cultural Heritage, will participate in the project entitled "Cultural Sustainability in the Vall d'en Bas". The project will serve as a pilot programme in Catalonia to integrate different heritage areas into the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.
The Faculty of Communication Sciences will host a masterclass on La Marató de TV3 on Tuesday, May 21, at 11:00 in order to showcase the keys to the success of this television show, It has become a benchmark. Gemma Nierga -Alumni UAB- and Ramon Gener, presenters of the program in the 2018 edition, will conduct the event.
Starting last academic year, the Fundación Mujeres por África and the UAB offer one grant per year to a woman from Africa to study at the UAB and live at the Vila. This year, Martha Ogochukwu from Nigeria was awarded the grant to enrol in the master's degree in Political Science. "It has been a very positive experience", she says.
The UAB will be celebrating spring with Primavera a la UAB on 29 April in Plaça Cívica. This celebration will also offer a solidary lunch against food waste.
From 8 to 12, the last activities of the Health and Sustainability Week addressed to the university community will be taking place. On Tuesday 9 April, there will be a walk at the Sabadell campus and another walk on 11 April at the Northern Axis of the Bellaterra campus, with food-trucks from 12 noon to 2 p.m.
As in recent years, centres at the Bellaterra Campus will be closed during the spring break: from 15 to 22 April 2019. Only certain services will be operating on campus.
In celebration of International Day of Light on 16 May, the faculties of Sciences and Biosciences have organised a flash fiction competition, open to all members of the UAB. The stories must reenact situations in which light is an essential element of the plot. Submissions must be made by 28 April.
UAB’s Care Center for Disability (PIUNE) offers this service addressed to university students with an auditory disability.