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New deadline: 5 September 2022   The Catalan Journal of Pedagogy (RCP) is an open and free biannual publication of the Catalan Society of Pedagogy, a subsidiary of the Institute of Catalan Studies. The main objectives of the RCP are to become a quality platform for the dissemination of research and education and training experiences and to promote debate and

Elections are called to the Board of Directors of the Institute for Research in Education of the University of Barcelona (IRE-UB). ELECTORAL CALENDAR Call for elections: 01/06/2022 Provisional electoral census (public exhibition): 02/06/2022 to 14/06/2022 Claims in the provisional census: 02/06/2022 to 14/06/2022 Resolution of the administrative services to the claims against the provisional census: until 16/06/2022 Presentation of the

At the head of the first official Chinese delegation to go abroad in the last two years, Prof. Bie Dunrong had traveled to Barcelona to take part in the 1st Global Forum of Higher Education Associations, held on 17 May as part of UNESCO World Higher Education Week 2022. The CAHE will organize the 2024 Forum, as part of his

On 7 October 2020, the Governing Council of the University of Barcelona approved the Regulations for the creation and operation of the internal research and transfer structures of the University of Barcelona, ​​which regulate research institutes, which it was amended by agreement of the Governing Council of 14 October 2021. Therefore, at the proposal of the Research Committee, the Governing

The Open Clouds for Research Environments (OCRE) is launching a call for funding for the procurement of cloud infrastructure, platform and software services that streamline and accelerate the results of research projects. Funding is available for up to €500.000, and the call is open until 7 July. Further information here.

Although there is no agreed definition of Open Science today, it should not be confused with Open Access. Open Access is one of the ingredients of Open Science, which has been called for in the Budapest Open Access Initiative of 2002, in the Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing of 2003, and in the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to

The Vice-Rector’s Office for Research is offering the University of Barcelona community a new call for grants for open-access publishing, with a budget of 120,000 euros. Open access journals offer the texts of articles free of charge without the need to subscribe. These publications have a cost and this call for grants complements the University’s expenditure on subscriptions to scientific

The webinar: Meeting of Ibero-American Institutes for Research in Education will take place on 12 and 13 May. The seminar will be attended by representatives of the various institutes, including those that are part of the RIIE. The programme of the webinar can be found here. A highlight is the conference: Networking for research in the framework of complexity, which

The guide aims to improve the visibility of UB research teams that sign scientific articles and the institution at national and international levels. The document sets out guidelines for the UB’s institutional signature, with the recommendation to use the standardised signature or unique bibliographic name (NBU). It also provides guidelines for including the institution’s name in accordance with the different

On 5 May at 12 pm, the conference ‘La Universitat de Barcelona y la qualitat acadèmica’ will be held at the Auditorium. It will review the evolution of the University’s quality policy. It will also discuss the current situation at the UB and in the Catalan university system, the future prospects for university quality and UB success stories. During the