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On 23 October a new edition of the B-EXCELLENT programme began. This initiative of the UIC Barcelona Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences seeks to enhance the entrepreneurial leadership skills of students with the best academic records. For the 2024-2025 academic year the programme will focus on the mobility sector, one of the most innovative fields that is constantly evolving, especially in sustainability, digitalisation and solutions for smart cities.

The Affective-Effective Model Awards were developed at UIC Barcelona by the University Institute for Patient Care, known as the Albert J. Jovell Institute in 2014 and sponsored by Janssen. Currently they have the support of Cátedras en Red, a network of representative chairs from Spanish universities

Camila Fernández-Cruz is a fourth year audiovisual communication student at UIC Barcelona’s Faculty of Communication Sciences. Together with Jorge García Guerrero, who studied psychology, they were the winners of the Methos Media First Prize in this year’s IMMA Awards with the short What are you supposed to do? Their project has a clear social impact but also a psychological basis. It is an audiovisual montage of a poem read twice (backwards in the second reading), which is interpreted in a totally different way each time, forcing the spectator to think about sustainability. “I simply followed my creative instincts for the poem. There are many scenes in the short film that I think have a very powerful meaning, such as the person coming to break the earth with a shovel, and then it is clear that they are about to plant something,” says Jorge García Guerrero.  In this interview, Camila Fernández-Cruz talks about the anecdotes and most significant moments of the short film. 

The team, led by Román Pérez and Begoña Bosch, director and researcher at the Bioengineering Institute of Technology (BIT), has created the first disposable solid cosmetic to contribute to the elimination of plastics in this sector

On 6 and 7 October, UIC Barcelona lecturers Silvia Albareda from the Faculty of Education Sciences and Elisa Rechadera from the Faculty of Communication Sciences and medical students participated in the “1st International Conference on Sustainable Curriculum and ODS in University Education,” organised by the Universitat de València.

Elisa Regadera is director of the Master’s Degree in Communication, Brand Management and Sustainability in the Fashion Industry at UIC Barcelona. She conducts research on how fashion companies are coping with and communicating their transformation to the circular economy.

The book, which is an analysis of current sustainable cultural tourism, has been published by Springer Publishing, one of the most prestigious publishers in the international arena

Together with Joan Fontrodona and entitled “The impact of the SDGs on non-financial corporate communications: Analysis of CaixaBank reports (2013-2019),” studied the case of the CaixaBank entity and concluded the use of the Sustainable Development Goals to be positive

Esther Jiménez has served as dean of the Faculty of Education Sciences at UIC Barcelona since 2016. During this time, she has been chiefly concerned with boosting the prestige of the profession of educator, which she defines as one of society’s most noble, as highlighted, she contends, by the pandemic.

The University’s Aula Jardí recently hosted an event between young people and researchers with a view to reflecting on what has been done at schools during the 2021-2022 school year and designing teaching tools aimed at heightening environmental awareness during the rest of the year