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The international FREECOVER project, in which the UAB Chemical Separation Techniques Group participates, is organising a technical workshop on 22 January, followed by a science café, focused on methods and technologies for waste valorisation and the recovery of critical materials. During the session, different approaches aimed at waste valorisation will be presented and discussed, with the aim of identifying possible synergies and defining the next steps of the project. After the workshop, at 7:30 p.m., the science café will be held at the CAU (Bar of the Vila Universitària), which will offer an informal space to continue the discussion, share suggestions and explore new perspectives in a more relaxed atmosphere.

Place: Faculty of Science (board room)

Date: Thursday 22, January2026 - 14:30h

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Since 2019, the UAB has participated through the Master in European Integration in the "Cross-border Masterclass and Dialogue of Disciplines", a joint initiative by 18 universities in Germany, France and Italy. The activity brings together students from different disciplines who work on a common theme and culminates in a three-day face-to-face meeting. This year, the Masterclass will take place at the UAB on 28, 29 and 30 January. Moreover, the BIP (Blended Intensive Programme) + Masterclass will take place throughout the week, from Monday 26 to Friday 30 January, with academic activities scheduled throughout the week.

The inaugural BIP day will take place on 26 January. The session will begin with an institutional welcome by the Dean of the Faculty of Law, Ricardo Esteban; Antoni Abat and Cristina Blasi, lecturers at the UAB; and Martina Camiade, lecturer at the Université Perpignan Via Domitia. In the afternoon, the relationship between artificial intelligence and gender will be analysed, as well as its effects on freedom of expression. UAB lecturers Lidia Ballesta and Marc Abraham Puig will participate.

For more information please consult the full programme of the Masterclass.

Place: Faculty of Law (Aula Magna)

Date: Monday 26, January2026 - 15:00h

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The Aula Magna of the Casa Convalescència UAB this year will host the #científiques sessions, which will take place on 27 January from 12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m. This initiative is launched by the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation and the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology. Female scientists from public and private entities in Catalonia, as well as sixth-grade primary and first-grade secondary school students from Catalan schools, can participate.

The programme will include a talk on particle colliders by Tamara Vázquez, researcher at the IFAE, and a debate on the presence of female scientists in the media, with the participation of journalists Pampa García and Cristina Sáez, as well as lecturers Sandra Acosta and Anna Sánchez. In addition, at the end of the meeting, institutional speeches will be given by Javier Lafuente, rector of the UAB; Esther Niubó, minister for Education and Professional Training; and Núria Montserrat, minister for Research and Universities.

Place: Casa Convalescència UAB, Barcelona (Carrer Sant Antoni Maria Claret 171)

Date: Tuesday 27, January2026 - 12:00h

Description:

Information session addressed to UAB PDI and PTGAS interested in applying for the XLIII Call for Applications, aimed at supporting projects that analyze and transform the causes of major global challenges.

During the session, the lines of the call, participation criteria, application procedure will be explained, and questions will be answered.

Meeting link (Teams): Access here

Place: Online (Teams)

Date: Tuesday 27, January2026 - 13:00h

End date: Tuesday 27, January2026 - 14:00h

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The UAB Research Group on Dictatorships and Democracies (GReDD-CEDID) organises a seminar entitled The global far-right and the manufacturing of ideas: protests and performance by Ferraz in Valencia, which will be held on 27 January. David Rodríguez-Solás, professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will participate. The session forms part of the training activities of the PhD programme in Comparative, Political and Social History.

Place: Faculty of Arts & Humanities (conference hall)

Date: Tuesday 27, January2026 - 16:00h

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The UAB Department of Anthropology and Caritas organise the FOESSA Catalunya conference, entitled "De la societat fragmentada a l'esperança compartida", which will be conducted by journalist Yolanda Marzabal from the TV3 news section on Society.

The institutional welcome will be offered at 10:00 a.m. by Salvador Busquets, president of Caritas, who will give way to the presentation of the Report on Exclusion and Social Development in Catalonia by Raúl Flores, technical secretary of the FOESSA Foundation, and Miriam Feu, general secretary and coordinator of the Observatory of Social Reality of Càritas Catalunya. In addition to them, this report was coordinated by UAB lecturer and director of the UAB Anthropology Department, Hugo Valenzuela-García, and member of the FOESSA Foundation, Thomas Ubrich.

Following that, different research articles will be presented through a dialogue with some of their authors. Thus, at 12:00 noon there will be a round table on Housing and Minimum Income; after lunch, at 2:35 p.m., another on The Inheritance of Poverty; and at 3:50 p.m . the closing session will take place, entitled The Future We Are Building.

Different research staff from the UAB will participate throughout the day (as well as researchers from other universities and entities): Margarita León, professor of Political Science and director of the Institute of Government and Public Policies of the UAB; Miranda Jessica Lubbers, professor of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the UAB (GRAFO); Sara Moreno-Colom, lecturer of the Department of Sociology of the UAB and researcher at the Centre for Sociological Studies on Everyday Life and Work (QUIT-UAB), and the Institute for Labour Studies (IET-UAB); and Hugo Valenzuela-García, professor of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the UAB (GRAFO). 

The FOESSA Foundation is a private, non-profit, state-level institution founded by Caritas Spain, which aims to serve general interests in the field of research and dissemination of social issues.

Place: Faculty of Political Science and Sociology (conference hall)

Date: Wednesday 28, January2026 - 09:30h

End date: Wednesday 28, January2026 - 16:20h

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