Three projects involving the UAB awarded funding from the Barcelona Science Plan

Yesterday the fourteen research and innovation projects that will receive grants in the 2023 call for proposals in the framework of the Barcelona City Council's Barcelona Science Plan were presented. Among them are two projects led by UAB researchers and another one in which the UAB participates.

The project "From the euro to the joule (EUR2J)", led by UAB Physics Department lecturer Daniel Campos Moreno, aims to increase citizen training and education processes in the field of energy transition that value energy saving and efficiency. It will be carried out through the use of tools from the science of complex systems to study and understand how the dynamics of social transmission condition the acquisition of knowledge and the adoption of new habits and technologies among citizens in the context of energy. The project receives a total of €149,860 in funding and will be developed in collaboration with the University of the Balearic Islands and the EURECAT Foundation.

In addition, the UAB will participate in the project "Barcelona, Climate Friendly Metropolis (BAMAC)", led by the Public Law Observatory (IDP-Barcelona). The project aims to analyse the position of large cities such as Barcelona in the protection of people who are forced to migrate as a result of climate change. The aim is to carry out a systemic analysis of Barcelona's regulatory framework in order to identify obstacles and possibilities in the protection of people migrating for environmental reasons, to analyse the conceptual framework of environmental migration and to foster collaboration and dialogue between the scientific community, civil society and international metropolises. The project will receive €109,646 in funding, and also involves the Catalan Refugee Aid Commission (CCAR) and the Human Rights Institute of Catalonia (IDHC).

The fourteen projects receiving funding, which will be developed over 18 months, provide innovative solutions to the urban challenges posed on community health and sustainability and climate change, and will share the €2 million allocated to this call (€1,200,000 provided by Barcelona City Council and €800,000 by the "la Caixa" Foundation).

This is the fourth edition of these grants, the result of successive collaboration agreements signed between the two institutions, which date back to 2019. The aim is to increase public-private collaboration in research projects that have an impact on the city of Barcelona.