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Description:

The UAB will host the Creathon 2026 organised by the ECIU, the UAB's European alliance, which will include the participation of some fifty international students from different disciplines, enrolled in one of the twelve universities that make up the alliance. For three days, participants will work together on finding innovative solutions for issues related to heritage and urban and rural development in Catalonia.

The creathon will begin on Tuesday 5 May at the Faculty of Education with an institutional welcome speech by UAB Rector Javier Lafuente, who will be accompanied by Marta Bertran, dean of the faculty, and Mireia Galí, institutional coordinator of the ECIU at the UAB.

This edition, entitled "Building Inclusive Futures: Care, Community and Mobility", focuses on social inclusion, community cohesion, sustainable mobility, and heritage in urban and rural environments in Catalonia. Participants will address two major challenges: one in a rural context, linked to the heritage of Pallars Jussà and Noguera, and one in an urban context, focused on the relationship between the UAB campus and its natural and urban environment.

The programme combines working sessions that will take place at the UAB and field work activities. Field visits are programmed for Wednesday 6 May to both rural environments of the Pyrenees and to the urban town of Cerdanyola del Vallès, in which the teams will meet local and institutional actors. The creathon will end on Thursday 7 May with the public presentation of the prototypes created by the teams at the COMTEC Centre, located at the Library of Communication and General Newspaper Archives.

Place: Faculty of Education and COMTEC

Date: Thursday 7, May2026 - 09:00h

End date: Thursday 7, May2026 - 17:00h

Description:

Cristian Carrer is lecturer in the Department of Social Psychology of the UAB and member of the AFIN research group.

Cristian Carrer will sit in the Science Carriage's Expert Seat to talk about school bullying for reasons of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and about what needs to be done to address LGBTI-phobia among children and adolescents, a social problem to be solved and in which schools can play a key role.

The activity will take place on 7 May on the 9:28 a.m. train from Plaça Catalunya to the UAB.

Place: FGC train from Plaça Catalunya to the UAB at 9:28 a.m.

Date: Thursday 7, May2026 - 09:28h

Description:

The Computer Vision Centre organises a new "CVC Open Day" on 7 May at 11:00 a.m. Once a year, the CVC wants to introduce the world of computer vision and artificial intelligence through an immersive and interactive experience, as well as an educational and understandable one.

Visitors will be able to see the centre's facilities and laboratories to discover how research is done, learn about the corresponding lines of research through innovative and experimental technological demonstrations, discover the usefulness of computer vision in different sectors of the field, and opt for new professional training opportunities (thesis projects, internships, master's and doctorates, among others) through meetings with teaching staff and researchers. These activities are a way to offer a practical experience in the fields of science and technology.

The day will offer two shifts: a morning shift, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and an afternoon shift, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. This is a free event, but with limited capacity. To attend, you must register in advance through this form. Depending on the total number of attendees at the event, there is the possibility of extending the time slot of the day. However, if none of the aforementioned shifts fit your availability, contact press@cvc.uab.es and indicate the times to organise a possible new group.

Place: Computer Vision Centre (Building O)

Date: Thursday 7, May2026 - 11:00h

Description:

The Institute for European Studies and the Faculty of Law of the UAB will be holding on 8 May at 12 noon a conference entitled "The role of the EU Court of Justice in a changing international context". The event will be held in commemoration of Europe Day at the Aula Magna of the UAB Faculty of Law. 

The talk will be given by José Martín, judge and advocate general of the Court of Justice of the European Union. Martín will analyse the key role played by the CJEU in a context of international change, marked by political, legal and geostrategic changes that test the functioning and projection of European law.

Place: Faculty of Law (Aula Magna)

Date: Friday 8, May2026 - 12:00h

Description:

On 9 and 10 May the Parc Tecnològic of Barcelona Activa will be hosting the Interhack BCN 2026, an event organised by the UAB, the UB, the UPF and the UPC. This 36-hour competition is made up of teams in which a designer from one university, a programmer from another, and a visionary person from a third university all sit together at the same table to see what happens when there is a mix of talents.

Place: Parc Tecnològic, Barcelona Activa, Barcelona (Carrer Marie Curie 8-14)

Date: Sunday 10, May2026 - 09:00h

Description:

This talk brings together emergent ideas and scholarship about planetary concepts and climate change with selected studies of various instances of radiocommunication: the human uses of radio waves in the electromagnetic spectrum.

The historical focus herein is meteorology, radio astronomy and global radio spectrum management during the Cold War. The rise of radio astronomy in the 1930s and 1940s raised recognition of the significance of the radio spectrum in planet-wide and extraplanetary research and awareness. The initial ITU assignments of radio frequencies crucial to radio astronomy in the 1950s (and in the 1960s, weather satellites) protected spectrum and “radio silence” for extraplanetary radio frequencies, crucial to space missions and satellites; yet such protective efforts were and still are often undermined by corporate interests eager to access and control as much radio spectrum as possible, particularly in a 21st century world where radio spectrum is now seen as a scarce resource.

The case study used in this talk is 24 GHz, a crucial bandwidth formerly protected for passive data collection tomeasure atmospheric levels of planetary water vapor that is now licensed for commercial services by government radio spectrum auctions, thus introducing contamination into the data.

James Schwoch is professor at Northwestern University, with appointments in the Department of Communication Studies, the Program in Science and Human Culture, the Ph. D. Programs in Media, Technology, and Society and in Technology and Social Behavior, and the Ph. D. cluster in Environment, Culture, and Society. He is also a related faculty in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, the Program in Environmental Policy and Culture, and a faculty affiliate at the Trienens Institute for Sustainability and Energy and at the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs at Northwestern. Schwoch conducts research and teaching in areas related to global media, media history, outer space, planetary boundaries, and media-communication-environment. He has published seven books and many articles, and his most recent book is Wired Into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontier (University of Illinois Press, 2018). He is a Contributing Member with the International Astronomical Union Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky from Satellite Constellation Interference.

Link to join the talk: https://meet.jit.si/Climasat_Schwoch_11May

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

Place: Online

Date: Monday 11, May2026 - 12:30h

End date: Monday 11, May2026 - 16:00h