PhD Thesis defenses

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Jesús Monleón, serial entrepreneur and investor in start-ups, will give a conference on entrepreneuring entitled "25 años emprendiendo: abrazando el riesgo» at the awards ceremony for participants of the University-Business Programme of the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, which this year reaches its 34th edition. The event will take place on 26 June at 6:30 p.m., at the conference hall of the Rectorat building. To attend, please send an e-mail to: p.universitat.empresa@uab.cat.

Place: Rectorat building (conference hall)

Date: Wednesday 26, June2024 - 18:30h

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Pep Canadell, executive director of the Global Carbon Project (GCP) and head of research at the Australian National Science Agency (CSIRO), will give this conference, which has been organised by the UAB and CREAF, of which Canadell is, respectively, alumnus and scientific advisor.

Greenhouse gas emissions, which come mainly from fossil fuels and agricultural systems, continue to grow and the increase in their atmospheric concentrations has been accelerating in recent years. This continued increase jeopardises reaching the targets set in the 2016 Paris Agreement: the progressive reduction of greenhouse gases until 2050, when net zero emissions (matching what is emitted with what is captured) would have to be achieved to limit global warming to well below 2°C, preferably 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.

In his lecture, Canadell will address questions such as: Is global warming accelerating, as some experts suggest? Will we be able to achieve the goal of stopping it at 1.5°C or, at least, of not exceeding the 2°C set by Paris? What efforts are needed and by whom? What are the dangers of not achieving this?

The Global Carbon Project (GCP) is an organisation made up of dozens of international scientists from more than 90 institutions that has been providing detailed information on natural and anthropogenic carbon dioxide sources and sinks every year since 2006. Its reports are a reference source for the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which reports on climate change caused by human activities.

The conference is open tot he general public and will include the collaboration of the Catalan Biology Society through its Vallès Regional Section.

Place: Faculty of Science and Biosciences (conference hall)

Date: Thursday 27, June2024 - 13:00h

Organiser: UAB and CREAF

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The UAB Institute for Education Science offers the Argó Awards with the aim of giving recognition to the efforts of students and strengthening the bond with secondary education centres. On 27 June at 4 p.m., an awards ceremony will be held for upper secondary school projects; and on 11 July, also at 4 p.m., an awards ceremony will be held for the projects of students from higher vocational training courses. Both events will take place at the conference hall of the Rectorat building.

Place: Rectorat building (conference hall)

Date: Thursday 27, June2024 - 16:00h

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Lecturer Amparo Huertas, coordinator of the UNESCO Chair in Communication and director of the Institute for Communication (InCom-UAB), will be participating in a round table on AI and higher education, entitlted "Impacto de la inteligencia artificial: desafíos, oportunidades y prospectivas en la educación superior a Iberoamérica", which will take place on 27 June at the Universidad de Lima in Peru. Those registered will be able to follow the debate live through streaming, which will begin at 6 p.m. (11 a.m. in Lima). Also speaking will be Carlos Alberto Cortés, Manuel Alejandro Guerrero and Julio César Mateus, representatives of the UNESCO Chairs in Communication of the Universidad Javeriana de Bogotà, Colombia; the Universidad Iberoamericana de México, and the Universidad de Lima.

Place: Online event

Date: Thursday 27, June2024 - 18:00h

Description:

The UAB collaborates in the organisation of the conference 75 years of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, which will take place on 3 July, within the space for reflection programmed by the Fundació Privada Sant Raimon de Penyafort. It will start at 6:30 pm and will be held at the headquarters of the Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB). Claudia Jiménez, lecturer of public international law at the UAB, will take part in the debate together with Ana María Sánchez Díaz, lieutenant colonel auditor, and a representative of the Community of Sant'Egidio. Joan Lluís Pérez Francesch, professor of constitutional law at the UAB, will participate in the conclusions of the meeting.

Place: Barcelona Bar Association (Carrer Mallorca 283)

Date: Wednesday 3, July2024 - 18:30h

Description:

On 5 and 6 July, the UAB Casa Convalescència will play host to the first edition of the UAB & UB Med Summer School, which will bring together students in their third to sixth year of Medicine. Participants will include students from the UB and the UAB, two of Catalonia's leading institutions in health care studies who in September 2023 signed a collaboration agreement to train future professionals of this field.

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

Date: Friday 5, July2024 - 09:30h