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Africa has come knocking on your door

15/10/2019 Opinion

Ethiopia’s young prime minister Abiy Ahmed Ali, is the new and, as from now, eternal winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2019, for his leading role in the peace agreement between Ethiopia and Eritrea.

The importance of being Goodenough

14/10/2019 Opinion

The contribution made by Goodenough, Whittingham and Yoshino, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, is the discovery, 30 years ago now, that adding a lithium electrode enormously improves the performance of rechargeable batteries without significantly increasing production costs

Discovering the universe

11/10/2019 Opinion

The Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded twice to three leading scientists pioneers in the field of exoplanets.

Oxygen (O2), at the centre of the Nobel Prize stage

09/10/2019 Opinion

The studies carried out by the prize-winners William G. Kaelin, Gregg L. Semenza and Peter J. Ratcliffe describe the mechanisms of one of life’s most essential adaptive processes

PhD fellow Babajide Muritala obtains the first prize from the Drucker Challenge Essay Award on business

02/10/2019

The essay explains the importance of transdisciplinary knowledge in order to be a good management practitioner

“Mobility programmes are an opportunity to leap into the unknown with practically no risk”

17/09/2019 Interview

Juan Pablo Muñoz recently won the Explorer programme for entrepreneurs in Tarragona and has undergone extensive training at international institutions and universities through specialist programmes for students

The URV is in the top 600 universities in the world according to the Times Higher Education and Shanghai rankings

12/09/2019

In this year’s edition of the two rankings the University is classified in the 501-600 band and is the fourth highest Catalan university

The URV cooperates with countries in Latin America to develop emerging tourism destinations

01/08/2019

The GRATET Research Group, with the support of URV Solidària, provides the working methodology so that local stakeholders can draw up a tourism plan

Oenology students receive training in organic wine production in Germany

29/07/2019

The summer school, involving universities from five countries, will take place at the URV in 2020 via a European mobility project

“Confronting yourself with other realities is an important opportunity to pursue”

29/07/2019 Interview

Sebastiano Cattaruzzo, awarded a grant by Martí i Franquès COFUND Doctoral Fellowship Programme, is writing his thesis about finance, R&D and automation of manufacturing industries

Consuming 60 grams of nuts a day improves sexual function

24/07/2019

The finding is from a nutritional study carried out by researchers from the URV’s Human Nutrition Unit, which concludes that regular consumption of nuts by men who follow a western diet improves the quality of their orgasms and their sexual function

The URV welcomes its largest number of international students yet through the Study Abroad programme in 2019

19/07/2019

During their stay they combine training activities, workshops and cultural visits

A new material has been developed to manufacture insulating material for footwear by reusing tyres

17/07/2019

Researchers from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the URV, jointly with researchers from the UPC, have found a way to reuse the rubber from tyres that are no longer in use, which will save the footwear industry 20 million euros per year in raw material and reduce CO2 emissions by 40,000 tonnes

Between 16 and 18% of preadolescents have ideas of suicide

11/07/2019

Depressive symptoms, anxiety and compulsive obsessive disorder are the main risk factors, according to a study by Universitat Rovira i Virgili researchers

The URV announces a new call for 77 predoctoral research contracts through the Martí i Franquès programme

04/07/2019

Candidates have until 2 September 2019 to present their applications

The URV has joined the European University Network Aurora

01/07/2019

The Universitat Rovira i Vigili will apply, along with the other members of this alliance, for the second call of the European Universities Network project of the European Commission

Short sleep duration and sleep variability blunt weight loss

28/06/2019

The results are from the Predimed-Plus study, and they have been obtained after monitoring for a year almost 2,000 patients suffering from overweight and the metabolic syndrome

Staff from 6 European universities receive training in internationalisation in a project coordinated by the URV

27/06/2019

The training will continue to be offered to universities on demand

The URV is the 78th best university in the world under the age of 50, according to Times Higher Education

27/06/2019

The "Young University Ranking" has once again placed the URV among the top 351 universities in the world under fifty

The Paul Sabatier University invests URV professor Carmen Claver as honorary doctor

26/06/2019

The researcher in Inorganic Chemistry has collaborated with this university in Toulouse (France) for more than 34 years in subjects related to the research in catalysis

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Africa has come knocking on your door

The importance of being Goodenough

Discovering the universe

Oxygen (O2), at the centre of the Nobel Prize stage

PhD fellow Babajide Muritala obtains the first prize from the Drucker Challenge Essay Award on business

“Mobility programmes are an opportunity to leap into the unknown with practically no risk”

The URV is in the top 600 universities in the world according to the Times Higher Education and Shanghai rankings

The URV cooperates with countries in Latin America to develop emerging tourism destinations

Oenology students receive training in organic wine production in Germany

“Confronting yourself with other realities is an important opportunity to pursue”

Consuming 60 grams of nuts a day improves sexual function

The URV welcomes its largest number of international students yet through the Study Abroad programme in 2019

A new material has been developed to manufacture insulating material for footwear by reusing tyres

Between 16 and 18% of preadolescents have ideas of suicide

The URV announces a new call for 77 predoctoral research contracts through the Martí i Franquès programme

The URV has joined the European University Network Aurora

Short sleep duration and sleep variability blunt weight loss

Staff from 6 European universities receive training in internationalisation in a project coordinated by the URV

The URV is the 78th best university in the world under the age of 50, according to Times Higher Education

The Paul Sabatier University invests URV professor Carmen Claver as honorary doctor

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