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Wednesday:

Fifty years after the death of Francisco Franco, the Centre for the Study of Dictatorships and Democracies (CEDID-UAB) is co-organising, together with other Spanish and French universities and the Francisco Largo Caballero Foundation, the international symposium on “Radiography of Anti-Francoism in Spain and France. Parties, Unions and Social Movements (1939-1977)”. The meeting will take place in the city of Alacant, Valencia, and the city of Albi, France, on 20, 21, 26 and 27 November, and will bring together specialists to analyse the forms of political, social and cultural resistance against Francoism.

The last day of the symposium will take place on Thursday 27 November and will feature presentations on the new radical left, the labour movement, and civil society's democratic learning. Juan Andrade, Pere Ysàs, Mónica Moreno, and Alberto Carrillo will be taking part, analysing the influence of social and cultural movements at the end of the dictatorship. The day will end with an official closing hosted by Mónica Moreno, lecturer at the University of Alacant, and Bruno Vargas, lecturer at the University of Toulouse.

Place: Amphitheatre 3 - Jean Jaurès Building, INU Champollion (Albi Campus - Université de Toulouse)

Date: Thursday 27, November de 2025 - 09:00h

Wednesday:

The UAB Communication Institute (InCom-UAB) is organising the presentation of the Informe de la comunicació a Catalunya 2023-2024 [Communication Report in Catalonia 2023-2024] on 27 November, which will take place at the headquarters of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans in Barcelona. The event will focus on the current state of the communication sector in the country. In the session, the main data and conclusions of the report will be analysed, as well as the ethical, cultural and social challenges facing the communication sector in Catalonia.

Institutional speeches will be given by Marc Melillas, general director of Media of the Government of Catalonia; Virginia Luzón, vice-rector of Communication of the UAB; Amparo Huertas, director of InCom-UAB; and Joan Francesc Fondevila, president of the Catalan Society of Communication–Institute of Catalan Studies (SCC-IEC).

In addition, the presentation will include a discussion panel with the editorial team, formed by Amparo Huertas, Bernat López, Celina Navarro and Luiz Peres-Neto, who will offer a summary of the main data and conclusions of the report, as well as the contents of the twelve chapters making up the edition, prepared by researchers from the UAB and the Pompeu Fabra, Rovira i Virgili, Oberta de Catalunya and Complutense de Madrid universities.

Place: Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Barcelona (Carrer del Carme 47)

Date: Thursday 27, November de 2025 - 17:30h

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