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This year, The UAB Doctoral School will host the annual meeting of the Catalan Association of Doctoral Schools (ACED).

Student of the PhD programme in Geography at the UAB María Paola Ayala Godoy has won the #HiloTesis contest and will receive a cash prize of 500 euros. Crue Universidades Españolas has awarded 5 other prizes to students.

Gala Pujol Infantes, student of the PhD programme in Cell Biology, won first prize in this year's UAB "Thesis in 4 Minutes" competition. The award comes with a cash prize of 800 euros and the chance to represent the UAB at the final competition, organised by the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation, which will be held on 27 June in Tarragona. She explained her thesis with a presentation entitled "How to change the world with a paper straw".

On Friday 17 May at 6 p.m. the 13th PhD degrees and extraordinary PhD awards ceremony will take place at the Sala Arnau de Vilanova of the Hotel Exe Campus, located in the UAB's Vila Universitària.

On Friday 17 November at 6 p.m. the 12th PhD degrees and extraordinary PhD awards ceremony will take place at the Sala Arnau de Vilanova of the Hotel Exe Campus, located in the UAB's Vila Universitària.

On 3 October, the event commemorating 10 years of industrial PhD programmes was held. In that event, the Impact Awards 2022 - a recognition of the impact that industrial doctorate projects have on society - were also presented.

The UAB was selected to carry out one of the 30 projects awarded funding by the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions – COFUND of the Horizon Europe programme, with a budget of almost five million euros. The project, which allows covering the salary of up to 24 pre-doctoral positions, includes the involvement of up to seven institutes from the UAB-CIE Sphere and the CORE Mental Health Network.

Starting this July, the Doctoral School has opened a new workspace available to all its doctoral student and designed together with the Graduate School.

Camille Noé Servin, student of the PhD programme in Psychiatry, was awarded the Joan Oró mention in the "Present Your Thesis in 4 Minutes" competition organised by the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation, worth 1,000 euros, on 22 June at the CaixaFòrum in Lleida.