Activities
Monday, October 20 2025
Dia · Setmana
12:03
UAB Innovation Week
Description:
From 20 to 24 October 2025, UAB is organising the third edition of the Innovation Week to open up to the territory, showcase its innovation ecosystem and bring the technologies and innovative knowledge generated on campus closer to society.
The aim of the week is to make UAB's commitment to innovation visible from the perspective of different actors, sectors and groups, as well as to connect entrepreneurs with the business network, the network of public-private investors and knowledge centres.
It has a programme that, in different spaces, activities and themes, will create meeting and relationship spaces between the UAB community, start-ups, companies and investors.
Some of the highlights include the Innovation Fair, the Eines Awards Gala, a conference on art and artificial intelligence, and an event on science and female entrepreneurship.
You can see all the scheduled activities at this link.
Place: Different locations on the UAB campus
Date: Monday 20, October2025 - 12:03h
End date: Friday 24, October2025 - 12:03h
Organiser: UAB Research Park
Thursday, October 23, 2025
10:00
Second session on premature pregnancy losses
Description:
On 23 October the UAB's AFIN group organises the second session of Premature Pregnancy Losses: breaking down taboos, building bridges and adding voices. The session will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Palau Macaya of Barcelona. This activity, which forms part of a research project funded by La Caixa, the Barcelona City Council, the Institute for Women and the Instituto Carlos III, is addressed particularly to healthcare and educational professionals in the health research and management sectors.
For more information, please contact with the session organisers via email: pr.perdidas.reproductivas@uab.cat.
Place: Palau Macaya, Barcelona (Passeig de Sant Joan 108)
Date: Thursday 23, October2025 - 10:00h
End date: Thursday 23, October2025 - 18:00h
11:30
Inauguration of the academic year at the Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Description:
Playwright Sergi Belbel, alumni of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities of the UAB, will talk about creativity and study in a conversation with Jordi Jané, coordinator of the Master's Degree in Theatre Studies, entitled "Study or be studied by others". The event will take place on 23 October at 11:30 a.m. in the UAB Auditorium. The dialogue will take place within the institutional inauguration of the 2025/26 academic year of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, within the framework of which, the faculty's Ad studia humanitatis fovenda awards will be presented to the Institut del Teatre (in the institution category) and to Poire Vallvé (in the personal category) for their work in collaboration with the UAB in disseminating the values of the humanities. The event will feature institutional speeches by UAB Rector Javier Lafuente and Faculty Dean Margarita Freixas.
Place: UAB Auditorium, Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Date: Thursday 23, October2025 - 11:30h
Monday, October 27, 2025
13:30
The digitisation of society and the case of voting online
Description:
The UAB's ISOR (Research into the Sociology of Religion) research group organises a seminar on the digitasation of society and trust when voting online, entitled “La digitalització de la societat i la renovació en les formes de creació de confiança i desconfiança: el cas del vot per internet”. The seminar will focus on the impact of digitisation on social mechanisms of trust and mistrust. The seminar will include a conference by David Dueñas-Cid from Kozminski University.
Place: Faculty of Political Science and Sociology (Board Room)
Date: Monday 27, October2025 - 13:30h
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
16:00
Workshop on disinformation and critical thinking at the Communications Library and General Newspaper Archives
Description:
The UAB Communications Library and General Newspaper Archives will be holding on 28 October, during Global Media and Information Literacy Week, a workshop on "Disinformation and Critical Thinking. Tools to Navigate News and Fake Science". The session will focus on the detection and analysis of disinformation, particularly that in the scientific field, and foster critical thinking when consuming daily contents. The workshop will be led by librarians specialising in information literacy, who took part in the European project Media and Information Literacy Connections (MIL CC). Places are limited and prior registration is necessary.
Place: COMTEC Centre, Communications Library and General Newspaper Archives (Floor 2)
Date: Tuesday 28, October2025 - 16:00h
19:00
Fifth Marcela de Juan Chinese Translation Prize goes to Javier Altayó for his translation of "To Hold Up The Sky"
Description:
The UAB Faculty of Translation and Interpreting and the TXICC research group jointly organise the awards ceremony of the fifth edition of the Chinese-Spanish/Catalan Translation Award "Marcela de Juan". The award will be given to Javier Altayó for his translation from Chinese into Spanish of Sostener el cielo (To Hold Up The Sky) by Liu Cixin. The awards ceremony will take place on 28 October at the Ana María Moix Library in Fort Pienc, Barcelona.
Place: Ana María Moix Library, Fort Pienc, Barcelona (Plaça del Font Pienc 4-5)
Date: Tuesday 28, October2025 - 19:00h