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In the top 500 universities in the world

In the top 500 universities in the world

For the fourth year running, the URV is among the top 500 universities in the world according to Times Higher Education (THE). The ranking confirms the URV’s excellence and international competitiveness.

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The Art of Reading, the game for learning English

13/03/2019

In a funny way, the app fosters the learning of new vocabulary, accelerates reading comprehension in academic texts and helps the student improve reading strategies

The universities report on the impact of Brexit on the Erasmus program

01/03/2019

URV students who have already applied to study in the United Kingdom can also choose another country as a second option

The QS ranking classifies the URV among the 300 best in chemistry and among the 400 most recognized in material sciences

27/02/2019

For the second consecutive year the Universitat Rovira i Virgili has been included in the QS World University Rankings by Subject and has improved its international position with respect to the previous edition

URV relaunches the competition “Explain your thesis in 4 minutes”

12/02/2019

Doctoral students are challenged to explain their research to the general public. The winner will go through to the final round to compete against representatives of other Catalan universities

Xavier Prats: Citizens need a lifetime subscription to be able to access the knowledge offered by universities”

08/02/2019

The Director General of the European Commission, Xavier Prats, is awarded an honorary doctorate by the URV

New international collaboration model with the University of Arizona

04/02/2019

The URV will collaborate as a Study Abroad site of the University of Arizona and partner in a micro-campus programme

20% of graduates from Catalan universities undertake study visits abroad

25/01/2019

The ACUP report on teaching and training at the Catalan public universities also highlights the increase in the numbers of doctoral students

CreatSens Health receives the prize for the most promising start-up at the IQS Tech Fest 2019

25/01/2019

The company was partially founded by the URV and works on controlling the progress of chronic kidney disease by analysing biochemical parameters in the blood

Russian and Spanish universities join forces to offer joint degree courses

17/01/2019

The URV opens its doors to Russian students and the exchange of academic staff

The URV is in the top 120 most environmentally sustainable universities in the world

16/01/2019

Its highest score is for waste management, in particular for reducing the amounts of paper and plastic it uses, for its treatment of toxic waste and for its recycling programme

Vinton Cerf, honorary doctor of the URV and father of the Internet, will receive the 2018 Catalonia International Prize

09/01/2019

He is the co-creator of the IP protocol, which has made the Internet possible, and vice-president of Google

Italian viticulture and URV oenology will soon be collaborating

19/12/2018

The URV and the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore are long-standing Erasmus+ partners and have established a mobility programme for economics students

Thyme extract controls the spread of a virus that kills prawns

17/12/2018

URV researchers have managed to halt the white spot virus that prevents prawns from growing and then kills them in prawn farms

New transport mechanism of nanomaterial through a cell membrane: membrane stretching

12/12/2018

Research shows that it is possible to control the transport of nanomaterial across a cell membrane by tuning the membrane tension

“After my PhD I would like to keep working on sustainability and innovation”

11/12/2018 Interview

Junjing Wang, international student at the ETSEQ, awarded a grant by Martí i Franquès COFUND Fellowship Programme

Jordi Salas and Eudald Carbonell, among the most highly cited researchers in the world

04/12/2018

The list "Highly Cited Researchers 2018", published by Clarivate Analytics, regards these URV professors as being among the most influential in the world because of the impact of their research

“We are developing nanosensors that can diagnose diseases and environmental pollutants”

03/12/2018 Interview

The researcher Nicolás Pazos develops plasmonic nanomaterials that fit into sensors of various shapes and sizes. These could help diagnose different illnesses such as cancer

1.9 million and 2.4 million-year-old artefacts and stone tool cutmarked bones from Ain Boucherit, Algeria

03/12/2018

Until recently, most paleoanthropologists believed that early hominins dispersed into Northern Africa much later. The journal Science publish an article about this question and one of the authors is an IPHES-URV researcher, Isabel Cáceres, the taphonomist of the project

Dolors Setó is named as one of the 100 most influential persons on social media in the field of corporate social responsibility

02/12/2018

It is the first time that the researcher from the URV’s Department of Business Management has entered this ranking, which is compiled every trimester by the University of Bath (United Kingdom)

Certain dietary or nutritional supplements could improve sperm quality

26/11/2018

These are the results of an analysis of 28 nutritional intervention studies involving 2900 participants and headed by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. These supplements may increase male fertility

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