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Wednesday:

On 28 November, the UAB School for a Culture of Peace (ECP) organises a conference at the central library of Cerdanyola del Vallès on armed conflict, rearmament and alternatives in terms of a culture of peace. The conference will take place at 6:00 p.m. and will be given by Ana Villellas, researcher at the ECP-UAB. The activity is part of the events held in the 14th Autumn of Solidarity, organised by the Cerdanyola del Vallès City Council, with the support of the ECP and the Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation.

Place: Central Library, Cerdanyola del Vallès (Plaça Enric Granados 1)

Date: Friday 28, November de 2025 - 18:00h

Wednesday:

The Final Conference of the European project HEARTS (Higher Education Action Response for Trauma Support) and the CORE in Mental Health will bring together universities, professionals and community organisations to rethink mental health and well-being in academia.

HEARTS is an Erasmus+ project that has been led by the ISOR-UAB research group. The project aims to design and implement innovative strategies for promoting mental health within higher education, especially to foster inclusive learning environments, address the needs of vulnerable and underrepresented groups, and develop capacities for transnational cooperation through culturally sensitive, digital and community-based approaches.

Over two days of activities, the programme will combine research, dialogue and creative practice. It will include a presentation of the results of the HEARTS project to share key findings and reflections on mental health in academia. A round table with HEARTS partner universities (Italy, Portugal, Malta and France) will address institutional accountability, emerging challenges and European good practices for promoting wellbeing in academia. The programme also will include interactive Abilis workshops that will explore community-based and trauma-informed approaches to fostering inclusive wellbeing in higher education.

The conference will also feature the inauguration of the HEARTS Photographic Exhibition: “Visual Voices for University Mental Health”; and a Theatre Forum play by La Xixa Lab, which invites participants to reflect and take collective action on mental health and inclusion in university life. There will also be a networking space to highlight the UAB’s health and inclusion services, and the “Talks! New initiatives to promote inclusive well-being in academia”, where current CORE Mental Health projects on resilience, belonging, anti-racism, well-being through art, research culture and digital mental health will be presented.

The conference will end with a “Forest Bath through the UAB Campus”.

Attendance to all activities is free. All those interested in participating can register at this link.

Place: UAB Bellaterra campus

Date: Monday 1, December de 2025 - 09:30h

Date: Tuesday 2, December de 2025 - 17:30h

Wednesday:

The UAB is organising the online seminar HEIs-NGOs Cooperation for the SDGs. Insights from the UAB and the ABD on 2 December, which will focus on cooperation between higher education institutions and third sector entities to advance in  the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The session will feature the participation of representatives from the UAB and the Associació Benestar i Desenvolupament (ABD).

Participating in the seminar will be: Myra Ronzoni, project manager of ECIU, the European alliance of the UAB, and member of the EDU4SDG project at the UAB; Dorota Piotrowska, professor at the Lodz University of Technology; and Catarina Alves, project manager of the ABD. They will offer their vision on the opportunities for cooperation between academia and social entities. Two practical cases will also be presented by Daniel Franco, lecturer at the UAB, and Myra Ronzoni, which will exemplify experiences of collaboration.

Those interested in attending can fill out this online form. 

Place: Online event

Date: Tuesday 2, December de 2025 - 10:00h

Wednesday:

Francesc Accensi and Joaquim Segalés, lecturers in the UAB Department of Animal Health and Anatomy, will offer a conference on the past, present and future of African swine fever virus, entiled "PPA: d'on venim, on som i on anem". The conference will take place on 4 December at 1:30 p.m at the conference hall of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.

Place: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (conference hall)

Date: Thursday 4, December de 2025 - 13:30h

Wednesday:

The ARENAS project, the CEDID-UAB, the Department of Modern and Contemporary History, and the Faculty of Arts & Humanities have organised a conference entitled “Ecologies of the right: ideology, policy and exclusion over the years”. The conference will be held on Thursday 4 December and given by Balša Lubarda, researcher of the Johns Hopkins University-UPF. The conference will focus on years of ideological evolution and exclusion policies linked to the right.

Place: Faculty of Arts & Humanities (Sala de graus)

Date: Thursday 4, December de 2025 - 15:00h

Wednesday:

On 9 December, as part of the ULALABS project, the UAB CircuLab will host the conference "Children and Participation in Inclusive Urban Transformation: Co-creation and design processes to rethink our cities", which aims to promote dialogue and reflection on the role of children's participation in transformative innovation processes within smart cities.

The event will explore how children can play an active role in co-creating and designing sustainable urban spaces that integrate meaningful learning about sustainability, technologies, and renewable energies. The focus will be on children as community agents who can identify needs, challenges and opportunities in their everyday environment, such as their neighbourhood, school, play spaces and social spaces, and participate in co-design processes alongside adults, social organisations and public administrations.

Speakers at the event will include Professor Johana Montalvan from the University of Stavanger (Norway), an expert in child participation in urban innovation processes and smart cities, and Clara Borràs from the UAB's CircuLab, who will share her approach to participatory and eco-design processes.

Registration

Date: Tuesday 9, December de 2025 - 11:00h