Defenses de tesi

Description:

The UAB European Documentation Centre is organising the workshop "Tools and strategies for research and publication on EU topics". The event will take place on 14 April at 12:30 p.m. at the CDE. The main objective of this seminar is to learn and improve in researching specialised sources and publishing academic content from the EU field to generate a greater impact on society.

The session "Research support services in the UAB libraries" is featured among the programmed activities, and will be given from 12:30 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. by Núria Álvarez, manager of research services. The session "Keys to successfully publishing articles and research papers on the EU" will also take place from 1:15 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., with Conxi Muñoz, CDE's head documentalist, editor of the journal Quaderns IEE and coordinator of MOOCs on EU topics. Both workshops allow you to locate the most appropriate research references to consult information on the EU, find out what research support tools are offered by the UAB libraries involved, and discover the practical keys to successfully publishing articles and research papers on the EU. To attend, it is necessary to register using the following form. A total of 20 places are available.

Place: European Documentation Centre (Social Sciences Library)

Date: Tuesday 14, April2026 - 12:30h

Description:

With the aim of introducing the University's students to the different options that board games and video games offer to deepen research and knowledge, the UAB libraries have organised an entire day of demonstrations on how games with very diverse themes work.

Activities at the UAB Jugató 

• Communication Library and General Newspaper Archives

Location: COMTEC Video Games Service Centre, Second Floor 
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

The Library will exhibit and explain how board games related to the field of communication work. For example, games on journalism (Pulitzer), photography (Red Carpet), radio (Días de Radio), film (Spoilers, Black Stories), and television (El Joc de TV3). The games will be available to play. The Video Games Service will also display a selection of video games related to communication that are available on the Steam platform.

• Science and Technology Library

Location: Espai BCT
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The Library will dedicate this space to sessions in which staff will explain how to play a selection of the available games, all of them fast-paced, related to mathematics (Ubongo, Quarto), the natural environment (Embosca’t, Wingspan, Catalunya Birds Memory Game), and genetics (PhyloGenome, with a special session given by Sònia Casillas, Vice-Dean of Students, Employability and Communication of the Faculty of Science and creator of the game).

• Social Sciences Library

Location: Ground Floor
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Library staff will offer a demonstration of the game El Crimen de Quintana de la Matanza, an investigation case that will test the deductive skills of participants and invite them to solve a mystery step by step.

In addition, attendees will be able to participate in an unboxing of several board games, such as Cluedo, La resistència and Pandèmia. This activity will consist of opening the boxes, discovering their components and trying out the dynamics and mechanics of each game.

• Veterinary Library

Location: Game Space
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

The library invites you to try out the new virtual reality glasses, which offer an immersive and relaxing experience to reflect, from a one health approach, on the connection between human, animal and environmental health.

Attendees will start with Pollinator Park, an experience that transports one to a dystopian future in which pollinators have disappeared, to discover how their absence affects the entire food chain and our own wellbeing. Then, with the Honeybee VR game, you will completely change your perspective to understand the essential role of bees in the ecosystem

The Birds of Catalonia Memory Game will also be available to play. This memory game launched by scientific illustrator Àlex Mascarell was created to learn about the different species of bird fauna existing in different parts of Catalonia in a fun and entertaining way.

• Sabadell University Library

Location: Ground Floor
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

The Library will test the ingenuity of players with games such as Monopoly, to buy, sell and negotiate properties with the aim of achieving a great fortune; Catan, in which towns and cities are built on the island of Catan while exchanging resources with other participants; Le Havre, based on developing a city and obtaining the maximum wealth possible, and many other games.

• Humanities Library

Location: Digital Lab, Room 1 (Periodicals Room)
Time: 11:00 a.m to 3:00 p.m.

The Library invites you to take a journey through history with board games. From prehistory, with Carcassonne: Cazadores y Recolectores and Stone Age, to the 20th century with Votes for Women and Twilight Struggle, passing through the empires of antiquity with Mediterranean Empires.

• Medical Library (Bellaterra)

Location: Espai Àgora
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

The Library will offer a full morning of challenges, diagnoses and critical decisions with the most exciting board games about medicine: Medical Challenges, with 800 questions about medicine; New York: Emergency Service, in which a patient's symptoms and history are analysed to find out what disease they have, with real cases of highly complex clinical histories; Save Patient Zero, in which players must find the antidote before their opponents; Pandemic: Iberia, to stop the progress of historical diseases; Dice Hospital, in which you manage a hospital, and Rush M.D., to experience the adrenaline of an intensive care unit in real time.

• Josep Laporte Library (Barcelona)

Location: games and resting space
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Attendees will be able to play the game Desafíos Médicos.
 

• Vall d’Hebron Hospital Campus Library (Barcelona)

Location: Espai de dinamització, Library Hall
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Students can discover and enjoy games that inspire a passion for solving and controlling dangerous diseases: Virus, a card game in which you compete to eradicate a virus; and Pandemic, a cooperative board game in which the team must keep four dangerous diseases under control, while fighting to discover how to eradicate them.

Place: UAB Libraries

Date: Wednesday 15, April2026 - 09:00h

Organiser: UAB

Description:

The UAB organises this week as a way of giving visibility to the richness and diversity of its university's artistic, natural, scientific, documentary, bibliographic and intangible heritage. Through a series of activities, the community will be able to discover this legacy from a diversity of perspectives and disciplines.

The activities, open to the entire community, have been designed and led by students from the bachelor's degrees in Art History and in Humanities. By fostering the bond between students, faculty and staff of the UAB, they promote a critical, open and interdisciplinary perspective on the university's heritage and its social, cultural and educational value.

Heritage Week Programme:

Monday, 13 April

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon “El patrimoni de la UAB: reptes i oportunitats”
Faculty of Arts & Humanities. Sala d’Actes Frederic Udina.

12:30 p.m. Inauguration of the exhibition “Memorias transfronterizas”
Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Sala Tarotdequinze.

Tuesday, 14 April

10:00 a.m. Presentation of the exhibition “La UAB a través del seu patrimoni”
Faculty of Arts & Humanities. PassaART-dís

10:30 a.m. Presentation of the projects “Art al Campus: Murals en QR” and “Tradicions i Celebracions a la UAB”
Faculty of Arts & Humanities. Aula 604

11:30 a.m. “Tast de Patrimoni-UAB. Projectes dels estudiants d'Humanitats"
Faculty of Arts & Humanities. Aula 601

Wednesday, 15 April

10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Guided tour of the UAB scientific-botanical heritage and monuments.
Starting point: Faculty of Arts & Humanities entrance hall

11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Guided tour: “Espai B5-125”.
Starting point: Aula 601

Thursday, 16 April

10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. "El diàleg entre el patrimoni material i immaterial de la UAB"
Starting point: Faculty of Arts & Humanities entrance hall

11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Guided tour of the UAB monuments
Starting point: Faculty of Arts & Humanities entrance hall

1:00 p.m. “Un vol per observar el patrimoni cultural de la UAB”
Offered by Esteve Dot (Department of Geography. Coordinator of the FUAB's master's degree in Tourism Management in Cultural Heritage)
Starting point: School of Tourism

Friday, 17 April

10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. How to study the state of conservation of a sculpture. Presented by Esther Gual and Pere Rovira from the Centre for the Restoration of Movable Cultural Heritage of Catalonia (CRBMC).
Faculty of Arts & Humanities. Aula 604

11:30 a.m. Presentation of the exhibition "Entre el riu Tigris i les muntanyes del Zagros. 10 anys de recerca de la UAB al Kurdistan iraquià". By Miquel Molist and Anna Bach (Department of Prehistory).
UAB Exhibitions Hall. Communication Library and General Newspaper Archives

Place: Faculty of Arts & Humanities

Date: Wednesday 15, April2026 - 09:00h

End date: Friday 17, April2026 - 12:00h

Description:

Come to the Plaça Cívica and take part in a day of action! Prizes are guaranteed while stocks last!

The Fundació Autònoma Solidària (FAS) is organizing an awareness-raising activity on Global Justice as part of the UAB "Mercat de Pagès". 

There will be a Q&A session on topics such as human rights and environmental justice, among others, and you can win prizes!

Do you have an old mobile phone in a drawer that you no longer use?

FAS will also be collecting old mobile phones to ensure they are recycled responsibly. The funds raised from recycling the materials will go to the Fundació Mona, which is dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and welfare of primates.

Place: Plaça Cívica, UAB.

Date: Wednesday 15, April2026 - 11:00h

End date: Wednesday 15, April2026 - 15:00h

Description:

On 15 April at 11 a.m., the Sala 83 of the Faculty of Education will host a meeting between the Portuguese writer Lídia Jorge and students from the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting, under the title “A literatura lava com lágrimas ardentes os frios olhos da história”. Jorge was awarded the Pessoa Prize in 2005, among many other distinctions, and is considered one of the most representative voices of contemporary Portuguese literature. Her work, which reflects on memory, identity and the human condition, is marked by the legacy of Portugal's colonial and post-colonial past. Her books include O Dia dos Prodígios, Notícia da Cidade Silvestre, A Costa dos Murmúrios, O Vento Assobiando nas Gruas, Os Memoráveis and Misericórdia. The event is organised by the UAB Portuguese Language Centre / Camões, IP em Barcelona.

Place: Faculty of Education (Sala 83)

Date: Wednesday 15, April2026 - 11:00h

Description:

The Cicle Seminaris a l’Abast series is a training space for dynamisation and participation, where current and interesting topics are discussed. The series includes 8 sessions lasting 2 hours each, independent of each other, with a total duration of 16 hours. Registration can be made for the entire cycle or for single sessions, online or in person.

The seminar “Physical activity, nature and emotional well-being: what does the scientific evidence tell us?” will take place on 15 April. It will focus on the analysis of connection between exercising in natural environments and mental and emotional health. The seminar will reflect on its implications for improving human health and preserving the environment. The event will feature the participation of Antoni Sanz, lecturer at the Department of Basic, Developmental and Educational Psychology at the UAB.

Place: UAB Auditorium (Faculty of Arts & Humanities)

Date: Wednesday 15, April2026 - 17:00h