Over 300 researchers, 150 businesspeople and 60 entrepreneurs met during the UAB's Innovation Week, which took place from 16 to 20 October in different areas of the campus. The event served to bring the University's innovative and technological ecosystem closer to the surrounding communities, as well as provide a space in which to debate and reflect upon issues such as synergies between artificial intelligence and music, and women entrepreneurs.
The UAB launches the Smart Campus Challenge programme is an initiative open to all members of the community to propose projects which can work on solutions to different challenges identified on campus, implement these solutions and make them extensive to the rest of the region. Registration now open to those interested in participating.
The UAB launches a research and solidarity project in collaboration with women communities who have migrated from the Maghreb. It aims to make visible the sexual violence suffered by Sub-Saharan women in their transit through the region while heading to Europe and provide support actions, such as fostering small-scale businesses, as a means to improve their personal and economic reality. The UAB is also launching a new crowdfunding campaign with which to fund this initiative.
The University signed a patent license agreement with Anew Medical, a US company developing innovative therapies for neurodegenerative diseases and cancer, that will allow them to work jointly and accelerate the development of the treatment so that it can enter the clinical phase. This gene therapy patented by UAB researchers protects mice against cognitive deficits associated with aging, improves motor function, and delays the onset of diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Alzheimer’s disease.
The programme, which took place from January to June, was launched by the UAB and the Parc de Recerca as part of the European BOGGIE-U project, funded by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT).
The technical director of the Chemical Analysis Service, Alba Eustaquio, and the head of the Spectroscopy Area, Ignasi Villarroya, received recognition for their collaboration and assistance in the Scientific Police Division of the Mossos d’Esquadra in conducting the analyses associated with their field of work.
The UAB Research Park, the Computer Vision Centre, the UAB School of Engineering, and the CSIC's Artificial Intelligence Research Institute have organised the fifth edition of the AI4ALL programme, a specialised training programme for entrepreneurs in this emerging sector. Registration now open.
The competition ended after five weeks in which participants worked on ideas to improve food, mobility, residue managmenet, discrimination and mental health on the UAB campus.
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