The Society for the History of Education of the Catalan-Speaking Countries, a subsidiary of the Institute for Catalan Studies, has published issue 46 (2025) of its journal Educació i Història. Revista d’Història de l’Educació, entirely dedicated to the history of university institutions, under the title Between the Ideal and the Real: University Projects in a Historical Perspective.
This volume includes three works related to the doctoral research line on Catalan university history, promoted by the J. H. Newman Doctoral School of eUniv under the coordination of the Alma Mater University Institute.
ACTINN, the Cluster for Innovation and New Technologies of Andorra, has presented the sixth edition of the ACTINN AWARDS to its members and sponsors. A new call is now open, where entrepreneurs and startups can register and compete for the award.
The goal is to provide visibility and support to new technological projects, digital transformation initiatives, or new business models that create opportunities for economic diversification or modernization of the country’s traditional sectors. The winning project will receive €4,500, along with mentoring and access to the cluster’s network of contacts.
The submitted applications will be evaluated by a jury composed of ACTINN members who co-sponsored these awards. The jury will assess the ideas based on technical and financial criteria and aspects such as their level of innovation, social impact, feasibility, and viability.
Companies wishing to participate in the ACTINN AWARDS can submit their applications until October 17, 2025. Project presentations will take place on November 5, and the winner will be announced a week later. The official award ceremony will be held as part of the INNTEC 2026 Conference. The competition presentation, the call guidelines, and the registration form are available on the cluster’s website via the following link: https://actinn.ad/activitats/actinn-awards/
This year, 12 cluster companies are co-sponsoring the award with ACTINN: CHAKRAY, CLUSTER VIDEOLOGIC, FEDA, ENSISA – GRANDVALIRA, IDENTTY, INNOVAND CONSULT, NAOS, SDLI – SOCIEDAD DE LA INNOVACIÓN, SINZERAD, SOSMATIC, TEMPUS, and UNIVERSITAT EUROPEA – IMF.
In the previous edition of the ACTINN AWARDS, the first prize was awarded to Monbrick, an Andorran startup with a groundbreaking proposal for the digitalization of the construction and housing rehabilitation sector and its clients.
The goal of OEIAC is to study the ethical, social, and legal consequences, as well as the risks and opportunities, of the implementation of AI in daily life, adopting a fully cross-disciplinary perspective.
The main strategic lines are:
a) Research the ethical and social impacts of AI. b) Establish guidelines and best practices. c) Carry out knowledge transfer. d) Maintain relations with international organisations. e) Collaborate with expert groups from around the world.
OEIAC has an operational structure that serves as a bridge between humanism, science, and technology, and ensures the dynamics of the quadruple helix, meaning the presence of the four key pillars in any innovative process: universities and research centres, public administration, the business sector, and citizens.
With this collaboration, eUniv takes another step towards internationalising its projects and establishing relationships with universities around the world.
The J. H. Newman Doctoral School of eUniv held its annual sessions of the 2025 Doctoral Research Seminar on July 9 and 10.
The sessions took place in the Rector Noguero Room at the eUniv headquarters in Sant Julià de Lòria.
Guest researchers included Dr. Laura Bujalance from Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid and Dr. Joan Solsona from Lleida. Dr. Bujalance specializes in the study of the university as an institution from historical and philosophical perspectives, while Dr. Solsona focuses on pedagogical and sociological approaches.
On July 9, discussions centered around the institutionalist theoretical framework applied to research on university centers and programs. On July 10, methodological proposals for empirical research were presented and discussed by Dr. Jesús M. Prujà and Dr. Jordi Sauret.
The doctoral candidates attending the seminar were involved in ongoing research lines related to university education, communication, and university history.
The Academic Board of eUniv, meeting in a regular session on Friday, July 11, 2025, agreed to terminate the continuation of the academic cooperation agreements with the Spanish educational group UNIVERSAE. These agreements included collaboration with the higher education institutions of this group in Costa Rica, Mexico, and Ecuador, as well as cooperative relationships with centers in Murcia, Madrid, and Catalonia dedicated to Higher Vocational Education and Training programs.
The termination of the agreements has been formally accepted by UNIVERSAE, which has immediately removed all references to its relationship with eUniv from its communication platforms.
This decision is part of the process initiated by eUniv’s Vice-Rectorate for International Relations to establish its own network of direct partnerships with Latin American higher education institutions.
Andorra la Vella, 12 July 2025 – The European University of the Principality of Andorra (eUniv) celebrated this Saturday its first official academic graduation ceremony, a historic milestone that marks a turning point in the institution’s journey. The event took place at the Congress Centre of Andorra la Vella at 6:30 p.m. and welcomed over 300 attendees, including graduates, family members, faculty and authorities.
The ceremony was presided over by Dr. Antoni Noguero, Rector of the university, and Dr. Jesús M. Prujà, Chancellor of eUniv. It also featured speeches by the patron of the class, Mr. Ramon Camp, Secretary of the High Council of Justice of Andorra, and the representative of the graduating class, Ms. Francisca V. Hernández.
In his opening remarks, Dr. Jesús M. Prujà reflected on the historical origins of the university and the significance of graduation as a foundational rite:
“Eight centuries later, we remain faithful to a tradition that has been adopted across the world. That is why, in events like today’s, it is important to offer some reflection and recall that academic recognition must also be accompanied by the professional rights it entails,” the Chancellor stated.
Mr. Ramon Camp emphasized the symbolic and collective value of the ceremony:
“Universities want graduations to be known and recognized. They want their graduates to experience a moment of solemnity, through a centuries-old rite that makes them aware of the step they are taking”
“The true counterpart of the degree earned is the social responsibility that you take on from today.”
Ms. Francisca V. Hernández, Humanities graduate, spoke on behalf of the first graduating class of eUniv, a remarkable milestone for the institution:
“There is something that will forever unite today’s graduates: we are the first graduating class in the history of the European University of the Principality of Andorra.”
“An institution with a novel educational model, designed for people who wished to pursue higher education while balancing family, work, and social responsibilities.”
The closing speech was delivered by Rector Dr. Antoni Noguero, who highlighted hope as a driver of academic success:
“Hope is the source of motivation. It is the cement with which we build our life’s foundation.”
“Always keep in mind that university graduation, from its origins, implies a special and unavoidable social responsibility.”
The event, marked by solemnity and emotion, included the conferral of stoles and medals to graduates and doctoral students, along with performances of the traditional academic hymns “Non nobis, Domine” and “Gaudeamus igitur”. The ceremony concluded with an institutional reception, where attendees enjoyed a dinner and exchanged experiences.
With this celebration, eUniv reaffirms its commitment to quality, academic tradition, and educational innovation, offering a higher education model that responds to the realities of the 21st century.
The family of Dr. Josep Olives reports that this morning he passed away at his residence in Sant Lluís, on the island of Menorca, where he was originally from, at the age of 82.
Dr. Olives had a long and fruitful academic and intellectual activity. He graduated and received his doctorate from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Barcelona, and specialized in sociology at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. After several stays in the United States of America, he returned to Catalonia, where he was a professor at the Ramon Llull, Pompeu Fabra and Internacional de Catalunya universities, of which he was professor and dean of the Faculty of Humanities between 1997 and 2008.
After his retirement, he participated in several university projects of the Layret Foundation, assuming its academic leadership. He actively collaborated in the eUniv project, and last December he was part of a doctoral thesis committee.
The University will offer a memorial mass in the church of Sant Julià de Lòria.
Albert Pijuan’s latest novel La Gran Substitució (Angle Editorial) has been the winner of the 54th Joan Creixells Prize for Narrative, the oldest in Catalan literature, awarded by the Ateneu Barcelonès since 1928.
The jury for the 2025 edition was formed by Anna Ballbona, Andreu Gomila, Eva Piquer, Francesco Ardolino and Valèria Gallart, who have assessed Pijuan’s work as “a bold and contemporary novel, which plays with the fantastic, psychoanalysis, the inferiority complex, conspiracy theories and everything that marks our time“, arising from a long obsession with the universe of Nicolas Cage, which the author has ended up pouring into this very cinephile text.
Pijoan has a degree in Political Science and Philosophy, and has been responsible for the development of teaching materials for various subjects in the curriculum of the Bachelor in Humanities at eUniv. He is also a professor in the Master in Literary Creation at the School of Writing and Communication Laboratorio de Lletres.
Within the framework of the general agreement between eUniv and the University of the Pacific of Ecuador, which provides for specific cooperation in the doctoral field, the J. H. Newman Doctoral School of eUniv has proposed the establishment of an addendum that allows for effective collaboration in academic and scientific processes. The new agreement, approved by the School’s Doctoral Commission, provides for the establishment of a specific line of doctoral research for candidates from the Ecuadorian university, focused on the field of educational sciences and coordinated by Dr. Jesús M. Prujà, Chancellor of eUniv.
This new and particular line of doctoral research will be the first of the J. H. Newman Doctoral School of eUniv to be governed by the new decree of the Government of Andorra that regulates doctoral studies, approved on May 21 of this year.
The Management of the J. H. Newman Doctoral School at eUniv has approved the proposal to incorporate two visiting researchers at the center for the next academic year 2025-26. The Faculty of Arts and Humanities proposed Dr. Laura Bujalance, from the Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid, a specialist in philosophy and history of science, who will collaborate in the line of doctoral research in the history of universities. For its part, the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences proposed Dr. Maria Pupysheva, from the Moscow Linguistic University, specialized in comparative politics, who has already collaborated with several initiatives promoted by eUniv. Both researchers will be attached to the Alma Mater University Institute during their stay at the University.
These two new additions join the precedents of the University of Valladolid, Complutense of Madrid, Abat Oliba and Internacional de Catalunya of Barcelona, Miguel Hernández of Elche and Santa Croce of Rome.
