Students receive Arcadi Oliveres Awards for Best Final Projects in Global Justice
Twenty-eight students from the UAB received an Arcadi Oliveres Award for their bachelor's degree final project (TFG) in a ceremony held at the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies. The awards, which this year reached their sixth edition, are given in recognition of the TFGs presented last year and focused on subjects related to a transformation towards a global justice. During the event, the awarded projects were announced by area of knowledge.
The Fundació Autònoma Solidària (FAS) each year announces the Final Degree Project Award for the best final degree projects in the field of transformation for global justice carried out by students of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).
The Arcadi Oliveres Awards ceremony, which took place on 28 March at 12 noon at the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, recognised the efforts made by the authors of TFGs on sustainable development and global justice carried out in the 2021/22 academic year.
The event began with a welcome speech by Esther Zapater, General Secretary of the UAB, followed by the presentation of FAS Director Jordi Prat, who thanked the collaboration of the Barcelona City Council in the project, as well as the work carried out by the evaluation committees that assessed the works presented. Prat highlighted the consonance of these awards "with the work conducted by the FAS and its commitment to planetary justice". He was also pleased that the awards bear the name of Professor Oliveres as a tribute "to his commitment to peace" and his "connection with youth". Next, the director of Global Justice and International Cooperation of the Barcelona City Council, David Llistar, affirmed that the concept of global justice is related to "a new paradigm" that must transform our "vision of development". Llistar denounced the intergenerational effect of globalisation and said that "we must redefine the planetary community beyond nation states".
Afterwards, the awards were presented to the winning students. Each of them took to the lectern and made a brief speech explaining how their TFG contributes to sustainable development and global justice.
A total of 28 students received an award this year: Jinyue Bai and Laura Vetter from the School of Engineering; Anna Pallarés Garcia, Elsa Carbonell Malet, Carla Gil Piñeira, Alberto Carrasco Parrón and Belén Mahia Vizcaíno from the Faculty of Biosciences; Oriol Llopis Almela, Eudald Vehí Llorente and Mónica Cano Garrido from the Faculty of Science; Alaaddine Azzouzi Rahmouni and Lucia Collera Tamargo from the Faculty of Communication Studies; Joan Arnijas from the Faculty of Education; Samir Rezali Hoummira, Jordi Sorolla Garcia, Roser Lafont Colomines and Júlia Cabello Abadal from the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology; Jan Cubillo Solà and Ricardo Pol Hermida from the Faculty of Law; Pablo Algarrada Vera from the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies; Julia Ron Soto, Laura Franco Nieto, Pablo Marid Arancibia, Cristina Troya Betrian and Raquel Sancho Ruiz from the Faculty of Arts & Humanities; Daina Parellada Moreno from the Faculty of Medicine; Nathan Percy from the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting; and Xavier Rincón Moledo from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. The awarded projects can be viewed here.
There were also awards that were handed out by area of knowledge:
- Arts & Humanities: Cristina Troya Betrian, Humanities student for her TFG on cultural projects of the Cosmocaixa museum entitled El projecte cultural del Cosmocaixa. El museu de la ciència com a model de gestió privada. Tutor: Daniel Ortega Ortizoga.
- Science, Bioscience and Technology: Belén Mahía Vizcaíno, Microbiology student for her TFG entitled Microbiology and sustainability understanding the world from a different perspective. Tutor: Núria Gaju Ricart.
- Social and Legal Sciences: Julia Ron Soto, Social and Cultural Anthropology student for her TFG on migrant grief entitled Formas de paliación del dolor migrante en poblaciones latinoamericanas migradas en Catalunya. La escritura como método terapéutico para superar el duelo migratorio. Tutora: Irina Casado i Aijón.
- No projects were presented in the Health Sciences area of knowledge.
Each winner received the amount of €250 and the specification of this award in their Diploma. In addition, all the awarded projects are now available in the Digital Document Repository of the UAB with the CC-BY-SA license on a non-exclusive basis, with no time or territorial limit.
At the end of the ceremony, Esther Zapater, General Secretary of the UAB, congratulated the award winners and their families, the tutors of the works and the evaluation committees. Zapater also recalled the figure of Professor Oliveres as a "stirrer of consciences" who, as she said, "would feel very proud listening to the presentations of these projects". She went on to say that this initiative is closely linked to the sensitivity and values of the UAB, in addition to visualizing "the main heritage of the University, which are its people". Zapater also explained that the UAB is currently working to introduce improvements and new initiatives that have an impact on global justice and the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Following the ceremony, the attendees enjoyed refreshments in the lobby of the faculty.