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“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

120 university staff from around the world share good practices in internationalisation at the URV

25/06/2019

They are from 30 universities in 22 countries and are attending the International Week and the final conference of the SUCTI project, coordinated by the URV

The URV has entered the QS World University Rankings for the first time

19/06/2019

It has come in between 701 and 750 out of the 1,000 universities on the list, which are the top universities of the total of more than 18,500 in the world

The international conference of researchers into immigration and asylum in the EU arrives in Tarragona for the first time

14/06/2019

Organized by the Department of Private, Procedural and Financial Law, the conference has brought together more than 60 experts in the field to discuss the challenges for the future

Nanodiamonds for detecting dangerous gases

11/06/2019

URV researchers have taken part in a study that shows for the first time that nanodiamonds can be used in sensors for detecting polluting gases

More than half of the plastic waste on the Tarragona coast consists of clothing fibres from washing machines

10/06/2019

Researchers from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili research group Tecnatox have analysed the pollution of the sea, the marine sediment and the beaches of the Tarragona coast with microscopic plastic waste

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“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

120 university staff from around the world share good practices in internationalisation at the URV

The URV has entered the QS World University Rankings for the first time

The international conference of researchers into immigration and asylum in the EU arrives in Tarragona for the first time

Nanodiamonds for detecting dangerous gases

More than half of the plastic waste on the Tarragona coast consists of clothing fibres from washing machines

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