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Mechanical Engineering will travel to Nyanza (Kenya) to set up a solar-powered phase-change-material refrigeration chamber for small-scale cheese production. Help for refugees URV Solidària has also raised €1,330.55 to support international action for refugees.
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2X1 CONTRIBUTIONS To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the University wants to encourage people to donate to URV Solidària. Consequently, throughout the 2016-17 academic year, the University will match each euro donated with another euro up to a limit of €15,000.
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QUALITY TRAINING AQU Catalunya has accredited 30 bachelor’s degrees and 14 master’s degrees The Catalan University System Quality Agency, AQU Catalunya, has accredited 30 bachelor’s degrees and 14 master’s degrees at the URV between 2014 and 2016. The organisation is responsible for verifying the quality of official degree courses. Bachelor’s degrees have to be accredited every six years and master’s degrees every four. The URV currently offers 48 bachelor’s degrees and 48 university master’s degrees and since the 201415 academic year AQU Catalunya has accredited 30 bachelor’s degrees and 14 master’s degrees at the URV. All of the courses thus far evaluated by the Agency have received official accreditation. During the process the Faculty of Chemistry’s bachelor’s degrees in Chemistry and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology have been particularly successful, having been accredited as excellent. The same accreditation has also been awarded to the Interuniversity Erasmus Mundus Master’s Degree in Quaternary Archaeology and Human Evolution, the University Master’s Degree in Quaternary Archaeology and Human Evolution (Faculty of Arts) and the Master’s Degree in Synthesis, Catalysis and Molecular Design (Faculty of Chemistry). During the 2009-10 academic year, the URV implemented an internal quality assurance system (SIGQ) at all of its faculties and schools, and was awarded the SIGQ certificate for all twelve
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faculties and schools and for the Lifelong Learning Centre of the URV Foundation. Recently, the URV was awarded a certificate for implementing the SIGQ at the Faculty of Economics and Business, as part of a pilot project that has been carried out across the Catalan University System. International seals of quality Three bachelor’s courses at the School of Engineering (ETSE) and two bachelor’s courses and one master’s course at the School of Chemical Engineering (ETSEQ) have obtained the EURO-INF and EUR-ACE international seals of quality. At the ETSE, the Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and the Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Electronic Engineering and Automation have been awarded the EUR-ACE® international quality seal, and the Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering has been awarded the EURO-INF international quality seal. At the ETSEQ, the Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering, the Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering and the Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering have been awarded the EUR-ACE® international quality seal. All of these qualifications underwent the accreditation process during the 2015-16 academic year and passed with flying colours the evaluations carried out by AQU Catalunya and the National Agency for Quality Evaluation and Accreditation (ANECA). This has enabled them to obtain the international quality accreditations, which evaluate competencies specific to the field of engineering.
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ÀNGEL MARTÍNEZ IS THE NEW DIRECTOR OF THE MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE Àngel Martínez, professor in the Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work, is the new director of the Medical Anthropology Research Centre (MARC). He will substitute Oriol Romaní, who was recently made an emeritus professor of the URV. The MARC is an interdisciplinary research centre at the URV which conducts research and transfer at the interface
between social and human sciences and the health sciences. Àngel Martínez is a tenured professor titular at the URV, has had a long research career in the field of medical anthropology and was head of the Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work from 2012-2016.
THE URV HOSTS AN INTERNATIONAL EXAM TO CERTIFY BEER JUDGES Thirteen people from all over Spain and Portugal sat an exam in October to become officially certified beer judge. This will
enable them to give their opinions during tasting competitions and to give official evaluations of products. The exam was part