The UIC presented its own Youtube channel ( www.youtube.com/uic ) on 11 July 2008, within the framework of the University Council meeting. The UIC is the first private Catalan university to have its own Youtube channel, which enables users to share digital videos on the Internet.
Around thirty people who have been working at the UIC for the past ten years received medals from the Rector with the university's new seal. The awards ceremony was held during the General Meeting of the teaching and administrative staff, where new appointments and new facilities were also announced.
Antoni Laporte, director of ARTImetria, a company that works on professionalizing cultural management, spoke at the Humanities and Journalism graduation ceremony held on Friday, 4 July 2008.
The graduation ceremony of the first graduating class in the UIC's postgraduate programme in Fashion and Trend Communication was held on Friday, 13 June 2008. The ceremony was presided over by Dr. Núria Durany, the Vice Rector for Research, Dr. Salvador Aragonés, the Assistant Dean of Journalism, Dolors Massot, the director of the postgraduate programme, and María Rosa Olona, the Director of Communication of L'Oréal.
History of Music professor and former conductor of the Vienna State Opera, Joan Grimalt, presented his new book at the UIC on Wednesday, 11 June 2008.