The Forum is open to university students from any Catalan university, as well as current second year Baccalaureate students. Projects may be presented in Catalan, Spanish or English.
The categories for this year’s UIC Barcelona Forum are:
1) Academic project
An academic project is one that conducts a theoretical exploration or case study.
It must be submitted in a written format.
Format and structure:
Groups of up to five students may participate.
The project must address an aspect of the theme of this year’s Forum.
It should be between seven and ten pages in length (between 3,500 and 5,000 words) and be presented in the form of a 15-minute spoken presentation.
The project must be structured as follows:
Title page: title, authors’ names and university, tutor/director’s name and university.
Summary of 5-10 lines.
Introduction: stating the objectives, the initial question to be answered or the problem to be solved.
Methodology.
Results/analysis: main arguments, analysis of the data collected, description of cases, analysis and discussion of other perspectives on the same subject, etc.
Conclusions: Propose conclusions based on the arguments or evidence provided in the body of the project.
Bibliography of the works consulted and cited in the project.
The public presentation on the day of the UIC Barcelona Forum must be a spoken presentation, with or without audiovisual support material.
2) Social impact project
In the face of the current financial and health crisis, the university refuses to sit on the side-lines. UIC Forum provides the University Community with a platform where students and lecturers converge, with the aim of promoting social impact projects.
We support you as you learn to analyse the context to which you would like to contribute. We give you the knowledge you need to make it happen: what to bear in mind when planning a project; conducting a study of the necessary resources and how to communicate successfully.
Then, by working in a team alongside your peers and with the guidance of a lecturer, you will present your project before a jury who will present an award to the best project. The award will be financial and will go towards launching the proposed project.
The teams will be made up of between 2 and 5 students. The workshops will be held online on Saturday mornings. Students who attend all meetings and present their project at the Forum will receive the corresponding certificates.
The social impact projects must respond to the context current of uncertainty sparked by the pandemic.
It must be submitted in a written format.
Format and structure:
Groups must be made up of between 2 and 5 students.
It should be between seven and ten pages in length (between 3,500 and 5,000 words) and be presented in the form of a 15-minute spoken presentation.
The project should be structured as follows:
Title page: title, authors’ names and university, tutor/director’s name and university
Stage 1: Send preliminary documentation before 22 December 2020; Abstract, key words and initial bibliography
During this first stage, the following aspects will be assessed:
How well it has addressed the Forum’s theme
Originality
Quality of the abstract
Academic quality of the bibliography
Stage 2: The academic projects must be submitted before 19 February 2021. At this stage, the submitted projects will be formally assessed. The assessment of the exhibitions will be carried out during the final stage, on the day of the UIC Barcelona Forum 2021 event. Stage 3: UIC Barcelona Forum 2021 event on 13 March 2021. Exhibition of all projects and awards ceremony.
Social impact category
Stage 1: Send preliminary documentation before 22 December 2020: Justification of the Social impact project
During this first stage, the following aspects will be assessed:
Preliminary study of causes that justify the project
Coherence of the idea
Stage 2: The academic projects must be submitted before 7 March 2021. At this stage, the submitted projects will be formally assessed. The assessment of the exhibitions will be carried out during the final stage, on the day of the UIC Barcelona Forum 2021 event.
Stage 3: UIC Barcelona Forum 2021 event on 13 March 2021. Exhibition of all projects and awards ceremony
The best contribution from each category (written project, social impact project) will be awarded a gift card of €500 (first prize) for Troa bookshops or El Corte Inglés. The jury reserves the right to declare the prize void.
All participants who have submitted an entry to the UIC Barcelona Forum 2021 and who have taken part in the Forum event, will receive a certificate of participation. UIC Barcelona students who take part in the Forum will also receive one ECTS credit.
Those participants who would like to submit their entry to the Forum to be held in Rome in April 2021, can apply for a grant to attend the conference from of the associations with whom UIC Barcelona has an agreement. The grants will be awarded directly to the person or organisation responsible for organising the trip.
In order to be eligible for a grant, the applicant must fulfil the following requirements:
Have taken part in the UIC Barcelona Forum 2021.
Have submitted an entry to the Forum.
Have exceeded the level of quality required by the Organising Committee in the submitted project.
Have submitted a letter of motivation that explains why they want to attend the UNIV.
Have applied for the grant from the Organising Committee with the following form before 15 March.
Students awarded a grant will be asked, upon their return from Rome, to send a one-minute (maximum duration) video in which they explain:
Which kind of entry they submitted and how they participated?
Why they wanted to take part?
What they have taken from the trip in terms of personal and professional development?
