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Catalan university contributes to most comprehensive genomic study on primates
UPF's Tomàs Marquès-Bonet contributes to sequencing of 233 species which could help human diseases research
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Catalan research centers contribute to international breakthrough on cancer
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Two Catalan universities in world's top 200
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Poblenou, from Barcelona's old industrial centre to new business, innovation and tourist district
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Barcelona: a top city to take an MBA
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3 Catalan universities and 3 colleges among world's best, according to QS and Times rankings
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Bachelor's degrees to last 3 years instead of 4: new university reform stirs Catalan students' anger
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Catalonia, a hub of global biomedical research
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Controversial historical symposium begins by praising Catalonia’s affection towards Spanish society
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Australia's RMIT University opens its European campus in Barcelona
The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, which is one of Australia’s main universities, will offer Master and PhD programmes in Barcelona. The RMIT University, which has three campuses in Melbourne and two in Vietnam, is now coming to Europe and will coordinate its activities in the continent from Barcelona. The Australian education institution will also cooperate with several Catalan universities, in particular the UPC, the UPF and ELISAVA. The Catalan Minister for Economy and Knowledge, Andreu Mas-Colell, attended the opening ceremony. He underlined that Australia’s higher education system is “the most internationalised in the world”. He also stated that the RMIT campus in Barcelona “is a bridge towards Europe, the Mediterranean Area and Latin America”.
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Nine US and four Catalan universities aim to promote international masters programmes together
The Consortium for Advanced Studies of Barcelona (CASB), made up of 9 of the most important universities from the United States and 4 Catalan public universities from Barcelona, is considering implementing international masters degree programmes and summer courses together. 300 American students have already come to Catalonia to study through the CASB. According to the American universities, the Catalan language is not an obstacle but an added value to the cultural and social experience of studying in Barcelona.
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Catalan centres are at the core of the billion-euro graphene and human brain research projects funded by the European Commission
Through its FET-Flagship programme, the European Commission is allocating €1 billion to each of the two main research projects in Europe. The first one is a project to explore the properties of graphene, a new material deriving from graphite that might revolutionise industry as silicon did a few decades ago. The second one will simulate a human brain in order to understand how it exactly works. The Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology is one of the nine leading institutes coordinating the graphene project, in which 623 research groups from 32 different countries will participate. Furthermore, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center will take care of the calculations at a molecular level in the Human Brain Project.