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Description:

The ECIU, the UAB’s European alliance, is organising a webinar to showcase the evolution of challenge-based learning over the past seven years. The session will address the potential of this educational model, which fosters collaboration among universities, students, and external entities to tackle real-world challenges.

Participants will include Susanne Conze, head of the Higher Education Unit at the European Commission, and Timothy James Marshall, researcher specialising in challenge-based learning at the ECIU and the University of Stavanger, Norway. Experiences from the European university alliances CHARM-EU, EU-CONEXUS, EuroTeQ, and EUGLOH will also be presented, alongside perspectives from students and collaborating organisations.

For more information and to register to attend please visit: ECIU platform

Place: Online session

Date: Friday 11, September2026 - 12:00h

Description:

Institutional presentation event for the participatory process regarding the Urban Master Plan for the UAB university campus (PDUCUAB).

The event is organised by the Government of Catalonia, the Barcelona Metropolitan Area, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and the ​​Cerdanyola del Vallès City Council.

More information:

• Event registration form
• Participatory process

Place: Faculty of Educational Sciences (sala de graus)

Date: Wednesday 16, September2026 - 15:45h

End date: Wednesday 16, September2026 - 17:30h

Description:

Veus UAB is a platform for disseminating research in Catalan, aimed at promoting the language in a sphere where it remains marginalised and at sharing knowledge generated at the UAB. It consists of eight-minute talks addressed to the general public—and particularly to secondary school students—designed to showcase science as a driver of change. Those interested can attend the talks as a member of the audience; they will be recorded on video and broadcast online, and will subsequently be uploaded to the website and the UAB's official YouTube channel. They will also be available at the website 3Cat.cat.

Place: Theatre Hall, Belleterra Campus, UAB

Date: Wednesday 23, September2026 - 16:00h

Organiser: UAB

Description:

American linguist Mary Ann Newman will deliver the inaugural lecture for the 2026/27 academic year at the institutional event organised by the UAB on 2 October. It will take place at 12:30 p.m. in the Rectorat’s conference hall. The ceremony will kick off the UAB’s thematic year dedicated to Catalan culture and will also serve as the official opening of the academic year for the entire Catalan university system. The event will be presided over by UAB Rector Javier Lafuente and President of the Government of Catalonia, Salvador Illa. The event will be streamed live on the UAB's YouTube channel.

Date: Friday 2, October2026 - 12:30h

Description:

The UAB organises a wide array of activities as part of Researcher's Night, an event open to all publics that is dedidated to science communication. Starting at 5:00 p.m., the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona will be holding a research fair, with workshops and demonstrations, games and micro-talks with researchers from the University and research institutes that are members of Esfera UAB.

The NitRecerCat2627 project is an event associated with the European Union’s MSCA and Citizens initiative, funded under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions: HORIZON-MSCA-2025-CITIZENS-01.

Place: UAB Central Axis

Date: Friday 2, October2026 - 17:00h

End date: Friday 2, October2026 - 21:00h

Description:

From 19 to 23 October 2026, the UAB will organise the fourth edition of Innovation Week. The aim is to reach out to the wider region, showcase the university's innovation ecosystem, and make the technologies and innovative knowledge generated on campus more accessible to the public.

The varied programme of activities and themes will provide opportunities for the UAB community, start-ups, companies and investors to meet and network. Some of the activities include:

• Innovation Fair
• UAB-Cruïlla Chair: Innovation, Artificial Intelligence, Arts and Music
• -Emprèn UAB: generating spin-offs and start-ups from the university
• -Eines Awards Ceremony
• From Research to Impact: Experiences of Public Innovation and Knowledge Transfer from the University to Society
• Women in Science and Entrepreneurship
• Inauguration of the Cerdanyola Activa Innovation Hub
• Beyond the Hype: How (Not) to Use AI for Entrepreneurship
• Innovation from Catalan Forests for the Bioeconomy: Construction and Green Chemistry
• UAB Virtual Reality Conference

Place: Campus UAB

Date: Monday 19, October2026 - 10:00h

End date: Friday 23, October2026 - 15:00h

Organiser: UAB Research Park