UABDivulga - Barcelona recerca i innovació

Description:

With Copernicus, "Europe's eyes on Earth", the European Union has developed and maintained a series on remote and "in situ" infrastructures to turn many dimensions of our environment into data. This programme is based on a long history of developing Earth Observation as a "for-policy" science that emerged together with the first environmental actions plans and research  programmes in the early 1970s. Today, the various services of Copernicus result in very heterogeneous uses within the EU, but its use for direct environmental policy remains less developed.

This presentation will look back on the development of remote sensing within the Commission and question what is often framed as a lack of "user outreach" towards environmental policy-makers.

Dorian Groll is a PhD student (EHESS) working on the development of remote sensing in Europe for environmental policies from a socio-historical perspective. His research is based on archival analysis (mainly from the European Commission and the European Space Agency) as well as ethnographic case studies of the engineers and scientists working on Copernicus, the EU's Earth Observation programme.

Link to join the talk: https://meet.jit.si/moderated/f2c8a5df081394c09276d8dacdf78916fbd3acde25acbac01b6339f5cbc12032

This activity is part of the CLIMASAT ERC-StG project's series of seminars on "Data, satellites and environment".

Place: Online

Date: Monday 1, June de 2026 - 14:30h

Date: Monday 1, June de 2026 - 16:00h

Description:

The Dictatorships and Democracies Research Group (GREDD) of the UAB organises for 2 June at 4:00 p.m. a new session of the GREDD seminar entitled "Thinking in the Trenches: revolutionary intellectuals from 1914 to the Spanish Civil War". The activity will take place at the conference hall of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities and will focus on the analysis of the political and cultural commitment of revolutionary intellectuals in times of war and social transformations.

The seminar will be led by Juan Andrade, lecturer in History at the Complutense University of Madrid. Andrade will reflect on the relationship between revolutionary thought, the experience of war, and the construction of political projects during the period between the First World War and the Spanish Civil War.

Place: Faculty of Arts & Humanities

Date: Tuesday 2, June de 2026 - 16:00h

Description:

This seminar explores the intersections between reproductive politics, networks and production of knowledge from a historical, sociological and science and technology studies (STS) perspective.

Departing from the notion of reproductive politics, the seminar analyzes activist movements, communication and global market networks that have configured reproductive rights, scientific knowledge of reproduction and access to public health resources. On one hand, feminist and activist networks are studied as forms of organizing, circulating knowledge and doing historical research; on the other hand, the role of reproductive markets, the commercialization of fertility and the global circulation of reproductive cells in the transformation of contemporary reproductive biology is examined.

The language will be English, but questions or contributions may be raised in Catalan or Spanish.

Online participation by this Teams link.

Programme:

11:00 a.m. - 11:05 a.m. Introduction (Laia Iturrizaga Zurita)
11:05 a.m. - 11:35 a.m. Oocyte biology networked entanglements in fertility crisis times (Rebecca Close)
11:35 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. Compliance as valorization: Ukrainian donor eggs and the global reproductive bioeconomy (Polina Vlasenko)
12:05 p.m. - 12:15 p.m. Coffee break
12:15 p.m. - 12:45 p.m. Feminist net-working: The work of networks as a critical historical methodology (Lina Chordaki)
12:45 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Discussion

Participants:

Lina Chordaki (National Hellenic Research Foundation)
Rebecca Close (UAB)
Laia Iturrizaga Zurita (UAB)
Polina Vlasenko (ReproMob)

Place: iHC Seminar room + Teams

Date: Wednesday 3, June de 2026 - 11:00h

Date: Wednesday 3, June de 2026 - 13:00h

Description:

In celebration of the UAB Bioconferences Week, the UAB Faculty of Biosciences is organising on 5 June at 12:00 noon a conference entitled “Climate Change and Meteorological Risks”. The event, which will take place in the conference hall of the UAB Faculty of Biosciences, aims to cover the growing impact of climate change on ecosystems, health, the economy, and society as a whole. The session will be given by Javier Martín, professor of physical geography at the University of Barcelona. Professor Martín will reflect on the main current climate challenges from a transversal and interdisciplinary perspective. The closing lecture will be given by Javier Lafuente, rector of the UAB.

Place: Faculty of Biosciences (conference hall)

Date: Friday 5, June de 2026 - 12:00h

Description:

PerCientEx (Scientific Journalism of Excellence) returns to the CosmoCaixa Science Museum on June 11 at 6pm. On its tenth anniversary, the PerCientEx project focuses on watchdog science journalism, one of the most necessary aspects of journalism to guarantee the integrity of science.

Registrations are already open at this link.

The project is coordinated by the Catalan Association of Scientific Communication (ACCC) and the Department of Communication and Education of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and has the support of the “la Caixa” Foundation.  

The event will bring together Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Mexican journalist from Science who has investigated abuses at the university; Mira Petrovic, researcher at the Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), who has alerted about corrupt practices; and Pilar Paneque, director of the National Agency for Quality and Accreditation (ANECA), who is promoting new ways to encourage scientific quality and discourage bad practices.

The speakers will discuss how scientific journalism can contribute to promoting integrity and contrasting bad scientific practices. In addition, during the event, new results and a set of examples of scientific journalism “watchdog” in the Ibero-American field will be presented.

More information: https://www.accc.cat/2026/05/07/el-paper-del-periodisme-cientific-contra-les-males-practiques-i-a-favor-de-la-integritat-de-la-ciencia-protagonitza-la-desena-edicio-de-la-jornada-percientex/.

Place: CosmoCaixa Science Museum

Date: Thursday 11, June de 2026 - 18:00h