The Crafting Europe in the Bronze Age and Today project, which aims to bring traditional pottery back to life by using Bronze Age productions as an inspiration, was awarded 105,000 Euros by the "Creative Europe" call for projects related to the European Year of Cultural Heritage.
The UAB will be offering new programmes covering a wide range of academic fields, all highly interdisciplinary.
On 2 July, economist Cristina Narbona and philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo will close the 2017/18 edition of the Master's Degree in Business Administration of the CITIUS Programme. Narbona's conference on the convergence of economics and ecology, entitled "Economia i ecologia: la necessària convergència", and Jahanbegloo will speak on "Martin Luther King: Our Contemporary".
From 25 June to 13 July, the UAB will receive 395 secondary school students participating in the Campus Ítaca programme, an initiative aimed at motivating adolescents with unfavourable economic backgrounds and good grades to encourage them to continue with their studies.
The presentation of the "Art Apart" exhibition will take place on 19 June at 4 p.m. at the Exhibitions Hall of the Communication Library and General Newspaper Archives. The event will include the participation of Jaume Vidal, professor of Art History, and Vice Rector for Institutional Relations and Culture Carlos Sánchez.
The UAB will offer two new minors, one in entrepreneurship and social innovation and another in Latin American studies. Minors allow undergraduate students to acquire knowledge in a discipline different to the one they are studying. Registration now open.
For the first time, the UAB's undergraduate and postgraduate students can participate in the UAB Barcelona Summer School, which this year expands the number of courses offered.
The UAB occupies the 13th position in the ranking which classifies the world's top 250 universities founded less than 50 years ago according to teaching quality, research, citations, internationalisation and knowledge transfer.
Interview with Henri Weber, well-known leader of the May 1968 movement, who offered a conference entitled "Un demi siècle après, quel est le bilan de Mai 68?"["Half a Century After, What is the Evaluation of May 1968?"] in the 50th anniversary celebration of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.