http://www.unica.edu/rss/ en-ENFri, 04 Jul 08 08:00:00 GMTCopyright: (C) Universitat Internacional de Catalunyahttp://www.unica.edu/rss/15http://www.unica.edu/globals/imgs/uic.pnghttp://www.unica.edu/Sophia Aguirre, professor of Economics at the Catholic University (Washington, DC), participated in the International Congress on Family and Society that was held at the UIC in May 2008. She was one of the participants in the documentary Demographic Winter: The Decline of the Human Family, which was screened at the Congress for the first time in Europe. An extract of the interview published in the latest edition of Newsuic is given below. ]]> http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1243http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1243comunicacio@uic.esFri, 04 Jul 08 08:00:00 GMTOn Saturday, 21 June 2008, the UIC's University Scuba Diving Group went diving in the waters of L'Escala, its first diving trip this season. The next dive will be on Saturday, 5 July 2008 around Les Illes Medes, L'Estartit. ]]> http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1241http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1241comunicacio@uic.esThu, 03 Jul 08 08:00:00 GMTAbout fifty people attended a dinner organized by the Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences on Tuesday, 1 July 2008, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of this degree programme. ]]> http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1240http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1240comunicacio@uic.esWed, 02 Jul 08 08:00:00 GMTSummer-school classes have begun this week on the UIC's Barcelona campus. Twelve different courses will be held until September. ]]> http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1239http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1239comunicacio@uic.esTue, 01 Jul 08 08:00:00 GMT?Knowledge should not have borders or be tied to wealth?, said Mónica Junquero, the president of the non-governmental organization (NGO) Fisios Mundi, at the graduation ceremony of the Physiotherapy Department's eighth graduating class. ]]> http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1238http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1238comunicacio@uic.esMon, 30 Jun 08 08:00:00 GMTThe event, which was held on Friday, 20 June 2008 in the Graduate Hall, was presided over by Dr. Salvador Aragonés, the Assistant Dean of Journalism, and Roger Jiménez, the director of the postgraduate programme. The guest speaker was Pitu Abril, the presenter of the BTV programme La Porteria. ]]> http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1235http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1235comunicacio@uic.esFri, 27 Jun 08 08:00:00 GMTLluís Ferrer i Gayà, the president of the Association of Insurance Brokers of Barcelona and of the Catalan Council of Insurance Broker Associations, talked to students in the Graduate Hall on 18 June 2008 within the framework of the Advanced Insurance Management Programme. ]]> http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1234http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1234comunicacio@uic.esThu, 26 Jun 08 08:00:00 GMTThe closing event for the UIC's 10th-anniversary celebrations was held on Thursday, 19 June 2008, in the main lecture hall, particularly for the university community. ]]> http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1233http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1233comunicacio@uic.esWed, 25 Jun 08 08:00:00 GMTOn Thursday, 19 June 2008, journalists Carol Hinds and Catherine Adams of the BBC, the British television channel, watched the final presentations of the students who participated in the Audiovisual Communication workshop held during the third term. The student journalists were divided into groups that presented different news broadcasts. ]]> http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1231http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1231comunicacio@uic.esFri, 20 Jun 08 08:00:00 GMTOn Friday, 19 June 2008, student Candelas Varela defended her final Master's Degree research project, ?La prevención de la diarrea aguda en niños menores de cinco años: estudio en la población de Kinshasa? (The Prevention of Acute Diarrhoea in Children Under Five: A Study on a Population in Kinshasa), which analyses ways of reducing the child-mortality rate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Varela runs a hospital in Kinshasa, where more than 150 people with this illness are treated every day. ]]> http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1232http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1232comunicacio@uic.esThu, 19 Jun 08 08:00:00 GMTThe company Cefar-Compex has made its Compex 3 available to the UIC. This electrotherapy device for muscle stimulation with Muscle Intelligence (MI) technology is designed to facilitate the work of physiotherapists. ]]> http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1230http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1230comunicacio@uic.esWed, 18 Jun 08 08:00:00 GMTAlbert Jovell, the president of the Spanish Patients' Forum (Foro Español de Pacientes), spoke at the Nursing graduation ceremony held on Saturday, 14 June 2008, in the UIC main lecture hall. He talked to students about values and skills: "It's one thing to earn your living as a nurse, and another to be and genuinely feel you are a nurse", he said. ]]> http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1229http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1229comunicacio@uic.esTue, 17 Jun 08 08:00:00 GMTThe 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. ]]> http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1228http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1228comunicacio@uic.esMon, 16 Jun 08 08:00:00 GMTA group of fifteen architects from Tongji University (Shanghai) visited the UIC on Friday, 13 June 2008, and took of tour of the ESARQ School of Architecture facilities. The purpose of the visit was to establish ties for possible collaboration with the School of Architecture. ]]> http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1227http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1227comunicacio@uic.esFri, 13 Jun 08 08:00:00 GMTHistory 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. ]]> http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1226http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1226comunicacio@uic.esThu, 12 Jun 08 08:00:00 GMTThe music videos of first-year Audiovisual Communication students who participated in a third-term workshop were presented in the main lecture hall on Tuesday, 10 June 2008. Eleven groups presented their projects in English and a jury made up of UIC professors and two guest professors, Eric Trometer from France and Janusz Szczerek from Poland, rated the music videos. ]]> http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1225http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1225comunicacio@uic.esWed, 11 Jun 08 08:00:00 GMTThe UIC will start up its medical degree programme in the 2008-2009 academic year and, as from the second half of the third year, medical students will be able to complement their studies and do clinical practice at the Hospital General de Granollers, which will become a teaching hospital. ]]> http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1223http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1223comunicacio@uic.esTue, 10 Jun 08 08:00:00 GMTJoaquim Pèlach, a professor in the Faculty of Education and Psychology at the Universitat de Girona, spoke at the graduation ceremony of the sixth class of the Preschool and Primary-School Teacher-Education Programme. ]]> http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1222http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1222comunicacio@uic.esMon, 09 Jun 08 08:00:00 GMTAccording to the results of a report by the UIC and the Universidad de Navarra, Cristiano Ronaldo has a market value of €83 million. ]]> http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1221http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1221comunicacio@uic.esFri, 06 Jun 08 08:00:00 GMTThe Ciutat Diagonal Club hosted the UIC's 1st Rector Paddle Tennis Tournament on Friday, 30 May 2008, in which 18 men's teams and 5 women's teams participated. The trophies were awarded on Thursday, 5 June, during the Spring Concert. ]]> http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1220http://www.unica.edu/en/news?id_noti=1220comunicacio@uic.esThu, 05 Jun 08 08:00:00 GMT