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Last Tuesday, March 21, 2023, the regular session of the second semester of the Academic Senate of the eUniv took place, under the presidency of Dr. Jesús M. Prujà, Chancellor of the University. In the session took possession of their positions Dr. Josep M. Tous, professor emeritus and former dean of the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Barcelona, and Mrs. Maria J. Tuyà, president of the Fundació Futura Penedès, a collaborating entity of the eUniv. The session’s agenda addressed, among other things, the modification of the General Academic Regulations, the eUniv Summer School project, the Faber Institute’s partnership proposal, eUniv’s participation in the Ibero-American Chair of Cultural and Creative Industries, as well as the progress in the implementation of the courses and in the acquisition of the premises of the headquarters. The Senate also agreed on the incorporation of new members representing the new areas of knowledge that are integrated into the eUniv, such as criminology, communication or classical languages.

Last March 1st, 2nd and 3rd, the 2023 Capsule Days were held at the El Sucre fairgrounds in the city of Vic, dedicated to the academic and professional guidance of young people in the Osona region, organized by its Regional Council .

Dr. Román Castro, professor at the eUniv Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, was in charge of opening the Conference on the morning of the 1st day, with a conference, mainly aimed at secondary school students, on the need to train is solid and continuous in order to be able to provide answers to current and future challenges.

The Alma Mater University Institute (IUAM) of eUniv, in agreement with the Vice-Rectorate for Culture and University Extension of the University of Lleida, organize this year the first edition of the University Culture Seminar, dedicated to disseminating those symbolic and heritage elements of the university institution among their community.

The first session of the Seminar took place last February 27 and was led by Dra. Lucía Lahoz, professor of Art History at the University of Salamanca, who analyzed the symbolic function of university architecture through the “stone tapestry” that is the portal of her university.

The second session was held last March 14 and was dedicated to the topic of debate, dialectics and oratory as methodologies present in the European university from its medieval origins until today, which was presented by Dr. . Adolfo Lucas, professor at the Abat Oliba CEU University in Barcelona.

The session for the month of April will be dedicated to the university colors and their projection from the faculties to the courses, and will be in charge of Dr. Marc B. Escolà of the eUniv.

The university institute NextG, associated with the European University-IMF (eUNIV), and ACTINN, the cluster of innovation and new technologies of Andorra, have signed a scientific cooperation agreement aimed at cooperating to promote valuable projects added to bring competitiveness to the Andorran business ecosystem and promote research and institutional promotion activities and/or events in the respective fields of action or creation.

The field of research and scientific and technological reflection can focus, among others, on new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), Big Data, Algorithms, Machine Learning, Blockchain, Robotics, Internet of Things ( IoT) and Bio-technology.

They want to promote a continuing education program adapted to the needs of the cluster members

The Universitat Europea IMF (eUniv), Andorran institution of higher education established in Sant Julià de Lòria, and ACTINN, the cluster of innovation and new technologies of Andorra, have signed a collaboration agreement aimed at:

• Collaborate in training projects that ACTINN promotes among its partners and collaborators.

• Promote a continuing education program adapted to the needs of the members of the cluster accredited by a higher education institution.

The Chancellor of the eUniv, Dr. Antoni Noguero stated that “this collaboration agreement with ACTINN reveals and reaffirms our institutional commitment to the creation and dissemination of knowledge in the field of innovation and new technologies, always seeking social and economic development fair and sustainable“.

On the other hand, the president of ACTINN, Albert Moles, states that “our companies and collaborators increasingly need to adapt their capacities and the skills of their teams to a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment, and for this reason it is necessary to promote innovative training programs“.

The eUniv has presented to the Andorran Quality Agency (AQUA) the memory of the Bachelor’s Degree Study Plan in Political Science. This title was created by Decree 300/2022, of July 13, 2022, of the Government of Andorra, at the request of the Charlemagne University.

The approval of this study plan will mean the implementation of the eighth Bachelor’s Degree at the F. Layret University College of the eUniv, and its implementation is scheduled for the next academic year 2023-24.

Following the eUniv academic model, the future Bachelor’s Degree will have a structure of five teaching units for each of the three courses of the program. Initially, the academic coordination of the title will be assumed by dr. Marc Gz.-Bachmann, Professor at the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences.

The eUniv has submitted to the ministry the applications, accompanied by the corresponding projects, for the creation of the Bachelor ‘s Degree in Classical Languages ​​and the master’s degrees in Theology and Religious Studies and in Criminology. The creation of these state titles by the Government will allow the university to present the reports for the approval of the corresponding study plans to the Andorran Quality Agency.

The establishment of the offer of state university degrees of the Principality of Andorra is a competence of its Government, which by means of its decrees proceeds to its creation or extinction. These governmental decisions are adopted by virtue of the initiatives of the country’s higher education institutions, which are the ones that propose and defend the creation of new qualifications before the Ministry of Education and Higher Education.

Since its creation in 2019, eUniv has launched the Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, the Bachelor’s Degree in Law, the Bachelor’s Degree in Humanities, the Bachelor’s Degree in Catalan, the Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and the Bachelor’s Degree in Communication, as well as the Master’s Degree in Business Administration, the Master’s Degree in Humanities, the Master’s Degree in Catalan and the Interdisciplinary Program of Doctorate. In addition, he has recently presented the report to teach the Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science.

On December 16, 2022, the General Meeting of the university, at the proposal of the Rector, approved the appointment of Dr. Josep Maria Tous i Ral as a member of the Academic Senate. Dr. Tous has been professor of Personality Psychology at the University of Barcelona, where he was trained and where he held several academic positions, including Dean of the Faculty of Psychology.

With its incorporation into the Academic Senate of the eUniv, the Psychology studies, which must begin their teaching during the current academic year 2022-23, will have a specialized referent with accredited academic experience when raising their questions initiatives.

eUniv participated in the II Innovation Summit organized by Andorra Research and Innovation (AR+I) which was held on November 21 at the Andorra Park Hotel and was attended by a hundred people. The event served to approve the adhesion of the commissions made up of the country’s experts in Talent, Business and Financing, Infrastructure and Ecosystem to the National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Strategy. The Andorra Startups platform, promoted jointly by AR+I and Andorra Business, was also presented, and the awards for the 2022 Planetech Challenge were presented.

Some of the priority actions that are to be promoted in a first phase are the detection of senior expatriate talent resident in Andorra to connect them to the ecosystem, the deployment of specialized training programs in innovation and entrepreneurship, the promotion of support to the business fabric to promote scale-up policies through the structuring of research and open innovation processes and projects, the identification of sectoral challenges and the development of projects that respond to them, or the launch of a public private funding program for early stage research and innovation projects that work on sectoral and country challenges.

On November 16th the rector of the eUniv, Antoni Noguero, and the general director of the Jesuits of Bellvitge, Núria Gonzalo Piguillem, met to sign an agreement of collaboration and academic cooperation between both academic centers. This alliance establishes the basic rules for promoting eUniv studies among Jesuit students in Bellvitge.

Dr. Antoni Noguero emphasized that this “is an important step to continue with the implementation of eUniv studies throughout the territory” and that “the support of an institution such as the Jesuits of Bellvitge demonstrates the potential of the eUniv methodology in the formative development of the youngest students ”. For his part, Ms. Núria Gonzalo Piguillem pointed out that “this collaboration will allow the Jesuits of Bellvitge to expand the outings they offer their students once they finish their studies”.

In addition, the agreement between the two entities enables teachers and members of both communities to participate jointly in institutional events, to collaborate in research initiatives.