The Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona recently premiered La gata perduda, a participative opera in which neighbours and entities from the Raval district in Barcelona were the actors. The opera is the result of the Traction project, focused on opera as a social transformation through audiovisual art and emerging technologies; a project in which the UAB research group TransMedia Catalonia also participated.
The spin-off from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Hospital de Santa Creu i Sant Pau Research Institute specialises in the development of nanotechnology-based cancer treatments. The company announces the completion of a Seed financing round of total €2.8 M, led by the i&i Biotech Fund.
Researchers from the Biosensors and Bioanalysis group at the IBB, led by María Isabel Pividori, will work on the development and validation of a tool to quickly and easily measure biomarkers of fever severity in children, with the aim of increasing child survival globally. The research will be carried out within the framework of the recently launched European project EChiLiBRiST.
Júlia Lorenzo, researcher at the Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine (IBB) and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Raül Andero, ICREA researcher at the Institut de Neurociències (INc), are involved in two projects funded by this year's CaixaResearch call for health research projects. One will be studying nanotechnology to stop the advancement of Parkinson's disease while the other will focus on how gut microbiota can control food intake in cases of obesity.
Members of the Catalan Parliament and the Spanish Congress of Deputies visited some of the TECNIO Association's centres located on the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona's campus after having worked closely together on Catalonia's new law on science.
The SO-CLOSE project research team organises an online micro-conference and a round table which will be held respectively on 26 and 29 September, as well as a digital poster, to disseminate the objectives of this project and the tools being developed to stop stereotypes and bring about a social reflection of the social cohesion and integration of refugees.
Urban areas with more "walkable" and greener environments favour the practice of physical activity among citizens. This is the result of a study conducted by researchers from ICTA-UAB and the Department of Geography of the UAB that provides public decision-makers with valuable indications on how to design healthy urban environments in the future.
Researchers at ICFO and UAB, in Barcelona, use the coldest systems in the universe to realize in the laboratory gauge theories, key models of modern physics that describe the fundamental forces of Nature and the behavior of complex quantum materials.
The European project NFFA Europe provides researchers and companies across Europe with a wide range of tools for research at the nanoscale. Applications for access can be sent in until 1 September.