On Friday 25 February the local stage of the UNIV Forum was held at UIC Barcelona.  More than one hundred university students presented a paper on the topic of “A world in movement”.   

The seven best papers were chosen.  Once this process was complete, a jury consisting of Dr Judith Urbano, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Dr María Fernández Arrojo, Dean of the Faculty of Law and Dr Jasmina Berbegal, Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences evaluated them and three winners were chosen. 

The winners were:

1st prize - for a Written Paper entitled “Tecnologia: sense llocs de treball en el futur?”, by a team consisting of:

• Arnau Raventós, ADE (Business Studies) UIC Barcelona
• Natàlia Costa, Humanities and Business Studies, UIC Barcelona
• Marc Solé Gañán, Business Studies, UIC Barcelona
• Inés Blanch Molina, Business Studies and Law, UIC Barcelona
• Marc García Cabau, Design, Elisava

Supervised by Pedro García del Barrio, a professor from the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences. 

2nd prize - for the social project entitled “Projecte Raval: donant oportunitats” by a team consisting of:

• Carmina Saló Casajuana, Industrial Engineering, BarcelonaTech (UPC)
• Sara Ribes, Industrial Engineering, BarcelonaTech (UPC)

Supervised by Miriam Febrer, a professor at ETSEIB, and the UPC 

3rd prize- for a paper entitled “Del "big bang" al "big crunch"” by a team consisting of:

• Luis Valentín Puig Fernández-Tubau, Law, UIC Barcelona
• Alejandro Tamarit Pan, Humanities and Law, UIC Barcelona
• Alejandro Muñoz Saura, Law, UIC Barcelona
• Miquel Moretó Vilella, Law, UIC Barcelona
• Miguel Trias Saladich, Humanities and Law, UIC Barcelona

Supervised by Carlos Espaliú, a professor from the Faculty of Law and director of the Charlemagne Institute for European Studies at UIC Barcelona. 

The prize consisted of €1.000 for each team towards their trip to Rome where they will present their papers at the UNIV International Conference which will take place over Easter.