PhD Thesis defenses

Description:

The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona participates in the organisation of the conference series “Perspectives on Aquaculture in Catalonia”, offered by the Aquaculture Section of the Catalan Biology Society. Communication briefs must be sent in by 15 May and posters by 1 June.

More information and full programme can be viewed here:
https://scb.iec.cat/perspectives-de-laquicultura-a-catalunya/

Place: Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Barcelona (Carrer del Carme 47)

Date: Wednesday 26, June2024 - 09:00h

End date: Thursday 27, June2024 - 15:00h

Organiser: Aquaculture Section of the Catalan Biology Society

Description:

The UAB Office for International Projects organises an informative session on the 2024 call for MSCA Staff Exchanges.

The MSCA Staff Exchanges projects aim to promote international, cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary innovative collaboration in research and innovation, through the exchange of personnel and the sharing of knowledge and ideas at all stages of the innovation chain.

It is a network call, the consortium must be formed by a minimum of three legal entities from three different countries, and research, technical, administrative and managerial staff supporting research and innovation activities can participate.

The session is aimed at UAB research staff. Registration is required to attend.

Programme

10:30 a.m. Welcoming session

• Iván Martínez, deputy executive administrator for research at the UAB
• OPI Presentations – Results of the UAB MSCA-SE

10:45 a.m. Online presentation of the MSCA programme

• Jesús Rojo, NCP of MSCA

11:15 a.m. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Staff Exchanges Actions

• Sotiris Kiokias, REA Research Programme Officer

11:40 a.m. Successful MSCA-SE cases at the UAB

• K-Reporters: Reassembling politics across children's cultures to scale intersectional pedagogies (Angelina Sanchez; Department of Applied Paedogogy)
• RECYCLES: Recovering carbon from contaminated matrius by exploiting the nitrogen and sulphur cycles (David Gabriel, Department of Chemical Engineering)
• VALZEO: Valorització d'agroindustrial waste to obtain zeolite-based composite materials and their use in environmental remediation and biofuel production (Roberto Boada, Department of Chemistry)

12:25 p.m. Round table

12:55 p.m. Closing session

• Núria Claver, director of the UAB Office for International Projects

Place: Sala Graus II "Josep Egozcue" (C5/1068) · Faculty of Science, UAB

Date: Wednesday 26, June2024 - 10:30h

Description:

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

Description:

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

Description:

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

Description:

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