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Emod, the building game developed by the URV’s School of Architecture goes on sale

22/10/2020

The game helps players to work on competencies such as geometry, design, history and to develop their fine motor skills and creativity

Launch of the Green Hydrogen Platform South Catalonia to create a leading region in the energy transition to fight the climate emergency

20/10/2020

More than 50 stakeholders have joined the initiative coordinated by the URV

The Optical Society of America recognizes the researcher Lluís Marsal for his contributions to science

14/10/2020

He has been elected a fellow of the society together with over 100 researchers from 24 countries around the world

With the exception of practicals, classes currently taught face-to-face will move online from 15 October to 30 October

13/10/2020

The new measure agreed by the Catalan universities will not affect research activity

Gender-based division of labor 4,000 years ago with some tasks carried out only by women

30/09/2020

First author is Marina Lozano (IPHES-URV), who has published a paper about this research in the Journal of Archaeological Science

Accelerating the transition towards sustainable pest control in agriculture

30/09/2020

The TecnATox research group (URV-IISPV) is a member of the SPRINT consortium of the European Horizon 2020 Program. The project will develop a global risk assessment toolbox to assess the impact of pesticides on human health and adverse effects on plants, animals and ecosystems

People with COVID-19 or who have been in close contact with a suspected case or waiting for test results will have to study and work from home

24/09/2020

This has been established in the URV’s Contingency Plan for the 2020-21 academic year, which stipulates how all members of the URV community must act in order to prevent the spread of the disease on its campuses

The URV reduces attendance at its campuses to help prevent the spread of the pandemic

18/09/2020

All courses will be taught following a blended format and priority will be given to the face-to-face activities of first-year bachelor’s degrees

An article by the researcher David Riaño is rated among the top three in the field of decision making systems in medicine

16/09/2020

It has been selected by the International Medical Informatics Association from among nearly 1400 scientific articles published in indexed journals in this ambit during 2019

The URV has opened a call for 76 predoctoral contracts for the Martí i Franquès programme

15/09/2020

This Tuesday, 15 September, the application period was opened for both of the programme’s sections: the standard section, for which there are 45 places on offer, and COFUND, for which there are 31. The deadline for applications is 15 November 2020

A Horizon2020 SWAFs grant awarded to three Aurora universities

07/09/2020

University Rovira i Virgili, University of Innsbruck, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and together with the Iberoamerican Knowledge Foundation (GECON) have won a Horizon 2020 “Science with and for society” or SWAFs grant in the amount of 300.000 Euros for a total duration of 24 months

The URV consolidates its position as the leading Spanish institution in terms of European funding received to train research staff

04/09/2020

Since 2014, URV has received 7.9 million euros for two projects of the COFUND-doctoral programme Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)

Researchers study why neural networks are efficient in their predictions

04/09/2020

A study by the URV has tested the method by which neural networks infer the laws of physics by accurately listing all possible combinations

The URV is in the 601-800 band of the “Times Higher Education” world rankings and in the top 501-600 of the Shanghai ranking

02/09/2020

It is the 4th Catalan university in the Shanghai ranking

Special Issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports on “Functional Studies of Prehistoric Artefacts and their Socio-economic Meaning” is now online

28/07/2020

An international team of archaeologists compiles recent research on the reconstruction of prehistoric technologies

Overweight and obesity are associated with a low sperm quality

24/07/2020

Is a systematic review and meta-analysis of all the studies published to date. These results suggest that overweight/obesity prevention should be considered at an early age to avoid deleterious effects on reproductive health

Two Stone tools on quartzite from Gran Dolina might proof that human occupation was steady in Atapuerca along 1.4 million years

23/07/2020

Both tools have been found during this field-season at Unit TD08, and they are around 600,000 years old, a time characterized in Europe by a striking scarcity of human presence

Unprecedented 3D reconstruction of pre-Columbian crania from the Caribbean and South America

22/07/2020

The work is published in a scientific article led by Gizéh Rangel-de Lázaro of the Natural History Museum in London and an associated researcher of the IPHES-URV

URV is ranked number one in Spain in the discipline of Chemistry according to the Shanghai Ranking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

14/07/2020

This is the second year in a row that Chemistry at the URV is among the best 100 universities in the world, being the only in Spain located in the top 100

The Faculty of Chemistry obtains the institutional accreditation

14/07/2020

It is the first center of a Catalan public university to achieve this recognition in the field of Chemistry and Biochemistry

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Emod, the building game developed by the URV’s School of Architecture goes on sale

Launch of the Green Hydrogen Platform South Catalonia to create a leading region in the energy transition to fight the climate emergency

The Optical Society of America recognizes the researcher Lluís Marsal for his contributions to science

With the exception of practicals, classes currently taught face-to-face will move online from 15 October to 30 October

Gender-based division of labor 4,000 years ago with some tasks carried out only by women

Accelerating the transition towards sustainable pest control in agriculture

People with COVID-19 or who have been in close contact with a suspected case or waiting for test results will have to study and work from home

The URV reduces attendance at its campuses to help prevent the spread of the pandemic

An article by the researcher David Riaño is rated among the top three in the field of decision making systems in medicine

The URV has opened a call for 76 predoctoral contracts for the Martí i Franquès programme

A Horizon2020 SWAFs grant awarded to three Aurora universities

The URV consolidates its position as the leading Spanish institution in terms of European funding received to train research staff

Researchers study why neural networks are efficient in their predictions

The URV is in the 601-800 band of the “Times Higher Education” world rankings and in the top 501-600 of the Shanghai ranking

Special Issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports on “Functional Studies of Prehistoric Artefacts and their Socio-economic Meaning” is now online

Overweight and obesity are associated with a low sperm quality

Two Stone tools on quartzite from Gran Dolina might proof that human occupation was steady in Atapuerca along 1.4 million years

Unprecedented 3D reconstruction of pre-Columbian crania from the Caribbean and South America

URV is ranked number one in Spain in the discipline of Chemistry according to the Shanghai Ranking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

The Faculty of Chemistry obtains the institutional accreditation

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