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25-04-2025
Catalonia must reduce its emissions by 8% each year to reach climate neutrality by 2050
The Experts on Climate Change Committee, an independent body in which UB experts take part, has submitted to the Government of Catalonia a proposal for a carbon budget for the country, an innovative instrument for effective planning towards climate neutrality.
Research
25-04-2025
New discovery changes views on star and planet formation
The combination of theoretical models and empirical data provides a new perspective for understanding the complex interactions between young stars and their environments.
Research
24-04-2025
The remains of the Iberian city of Kissa, an important site in the Punic Wars, have been found in Valls
To date, the location of the town where the first battle of the Roman army was fought in present-day Catalonia was unknown.
Institutional
20-03-2025
Extended period to participate in the drafting of the UB Statute
The UB university community can submit proposals and comments on the draft text through the digital platform Participa UB.
Culture
22-04-2025
The UB launches the fifth edition of Sponsor a Book to restore three 16th-century bibliographic treasures
The micro-sponsorship project, promoted by the UB Sponsors programme, aims to raise €10,870 to preserve an illustrated Bible, a book of trades and a Virgil edition with exceptional engravings.
Divulgation
23-04-2025
Jordi Díaz receives the City of Benicarló Literary Award on scientific dissemination
The author, who won the same prize in 2019, is honoured for a work that raises an urgent debate on the paradox of plastics, compounds with multiple applications that cause a high environmental impact across the planet.
Culture
16-04-2025
Les novetats d’Edicions UB per a la diada de Sant Jordi
El dimecres 23 d’abril Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona serà al Passeig de Gràcia, 100, de 9 a 21 h. Amb el lema «Saber de llibres. Llibres per saber», l’estand aplegarà les novetats editorials i una selecció del fons, així com un espai destinat a les signatures dels autors d’alguns dels darrers llibres publicats.
Research
15-04-2025
Work beyond wage: UB takes part in a study that reveals the hidden side of contemporary capitalism
Anthropologist Susana Narotzky publishes an article in which she shows how the global economy increasingly relies on precarious, unrecognized and invisible forms of labour that fragment the working class and call into question traditional categories of labour and class.