PhD Thesis defenses

Description:

PhD thesis defense

PhD in Biotechnology

Place: Conference room "Carles Miravitlles" - Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC)

Date: Tuesday 16, January2024 - 11:00h

Description:

The UAB Parc de Recerca will be holding an information session on the new edition of the Generating Ideas Programme, which this year will be dedicated to concieving and developing innovative solutions within the "one health" sector. The session is addressed to all UAB research personnel and PhD students and will serve to explain the objectives and characteristics of the programme. 

The Generating Ideas Programme aims to foster the entrepreneurial spirit and a culture for innovation, while giving support to the transfer of knowledge conducted by researchers and PhD students of all scientific areas represented at the UAB campus, with the aim of responding to different industrial and social challenges.

The 14th edition of this programme is focused on the concept of "one health", and seeks to concieve and develop innovative solutions through the interconnectivity and interdependence of human, animal and environmental health.

Thr programme runs from January to May and consists of the following phases:

• Conception: participants will work on group dynamics, collaborating with the entities that have proposed the challenges of the programme, to create multidisciplinary projects and teams.
• Training and mentoring: training sessions using design thinking and lean startup methodologies, e.g., on the protection of knowledge, business models, financing or how to make presentations with impact, etc. Each team will be assigned an expert mentor who will guide them and help them to validate the project.
• Prototyping: the five finalist projects will receive help to make a prototype or design of the project and present it.
• Final competition: on 16 May, the members of each project will present their business ideas in front of a panel of experts, who will select the two winning projects. The best project will win €2,000 and the best innovative idea will win €1,000.

Those interested can register to attend the programme until 21 January.

Place: Faculty of Science (Board Room)

Date: Tuesday 16, January2024 - 11:00h

Description:

The next session of the permanent seminar of the Research Group on Current History (GREHA) of the Centre for Studies on Dictatorships and Democracies of the UAB (CEDID), organised in collaboration with the Institute of Social History Valentín de Foronda, will take place on 18 January, in the auditorium of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, and will be entitled "Transition, violence and victims. Historiographical Perspectives".

Participants will include Carme Molinero, Víctor Aparicio, Pere Ysàs and Pau Casanellas, members of the GReDDD-CEDID of the UAB, Antonio Rivera and José Antonio Pérez representing the IHSVF-UPV/EHU, Xavier Casals, lecturer at the Universitat Ramon Llull, and finally, Sophie Baby, on behalf of the Université de Bourgogne. Attendance in person is free of charge, but it is necessary to register by sending an e-mail to cedid@uab.cat. It will also be possible to follow the seminar in streaming through this link, without having to register in advance.

Place: Faculty of Arts & Humanities (Sala d'actes)

Date: Thursday 18, January2024 - 09:30h

Description:

The Research Group on Dictatorships and Democracies of the UAB (GReDD-CEDID) organises in collaboration with the Institute of Social History Valentín de Foronda the session entitled "Transition, violence and victims. Historiographical Perspectives", which will take place on 18 and January, in the auditorium (Sala d'actes) of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, .

Participants will include Pere Ysàs, Pau Casanellas and Víctor Aparicio as members of the GReDDD-CEDID of the UAB; José Antonio Pérez and Antonio Rivera representing the IHSVF-UPV/EHU; Raúl López, head of the Memorial Centre for Victims of Terrorism; and finally Eider Nafarrate, student of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).

Attendance in person is free of charge, but it is necessary to register by sending an e-mail to cedid@uab.cat. It will also be possible to follow the seminar in streaming through this link, without having to register in advance.

Place: Faculty of Arts & Humanities (Sala d'actes)

Date: Friday 19, January2024 - 09:30h

Description:

PhD thesis defense

PhD in Methodology of Biomedical Research and Public Health

Place: GTP/112 - Graduate Hall. Docent Unit Germans Trias i Pujol

Date: Tuesday 23, January2024 - 09:00h

Description:

The conference on Chile's constituent process and future perspectives, entitled "El proceso constituyente chileno: fortalezas y prespectivas de futuro" and organised by the UAB Department of Public Law and Legal History Studies in collaboration with the University of Chile, will take place on Tuesday 23 January at 5 p.m. at the UAB Casa Convalescència in Barcelona.

Speakers will include Clàudia Jiménez, lecturer in International Public Law and International Relations at the UAB; Jaime Ferraz, General Consule of Chile in Barcelona; Pablo Ruiz-Tagle, Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile; Álvaro Anríquez, Director of the Department of Law Studies of the University of Chile; and Claudio Palavecino, Director of the Department of Occupational Law and Social Security of the University of Chile.

Place: UAB Casa Convalescència, Barcelona (Carrer Sant Antoni Maria Claret 171)

Date: Tuesday 23, January2024 - 17:00h