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The Municipality of Sant Julià de Lòria, the University of Andorra, the University European and Charlemagne University have formed this Thursday at noon the Sant Julià de Lòria University Campus Association (ACU). This association was born thanks to the commitment of the corporation, the Government support for the involvement of university institutions for to consolidate Sant Julià de Lòria as a parish of reference in the field of higher education.

Sant Julià de Lòria is a town with a strong presence of higer education institutions: Ministry of Education, European University, University of Andorra, Charlemagne University, Institute of Studies Andorrans, Vocational Training Center, Aviation School, etc. And the presence of these institutions significantly influences the economy and the culture of the parish.

With data from 2020-2021 university and higher education moved one volume of about 3,200 students, of whom 58% were students face-to-face and 42% virtual students.

Contrary to many people’s beliefs, the percentage of virtual students is very important for the parish as virtual universities, through of its teaching staff, the academic boards, the doctoral proceedings, the presentations and other events related to its operation have a very positive influence on the economy of the parish. For this reason, this representative body has been created with the support of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education.

During the event, held at the Casa Comuna after the plenary session of the Comú was approved unanimously initiated the initiative in an extraordinary session held this the same morning at 10 a.m., the Consul General and President of the ACU, Josep Majoral recalled some words spoken at the opening of the course the UdA in October last year said that “I count on all of you to make it possible”, in reference to all the projects linked to the growth of the parish through education.

Majoral went on to say that today one of them [project] is already a reality. I if they allow me, I count on all of you to make the rest possible. Together we can go beyond stages and write a beautiful page that generations they will surely take over for us”.

For this part, the rector of the European University, Antoni Noguero, also spoke said that “we are laying the first stone to strengthen the Common in the field university, as well as scientific and technological. It looks like one ideal initiative to show the residents of Sant Julià the potential that it has for the territory the activities that we will carry out”.

The rector of the UdA, Miquel Nicolau, emphasized that “Higher education and research are the best bet to contribute solutions to present and future challenges and to improve the quality of life of the citizens”.

The secretary spoke on behalf of Carlemany University Andreu Bellot, who emphasized that “collaboration between Andorran universities will contribute to Andorra, and in particular Sant Julià of Loria, can be recognized as a hub of knowledge that serves the new needs of the environment aligned with sustainability”.

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The ACU is committed to making Sant Julià de Lòria the umbrella of the concepts university, science and technology that have a narrow link between them and that should be the engine of the population in the middle / home deadline to boost business and talent in science-related fields and technology.

The logo is focused on conveying the concepts of cohesion between the three legs: university, science and technology. Using the color silver in reference to the noble material in contrast to the color black to give a scientific reading in essence and technological in application.

The Academic Council of the University, at the proposal of the director of the Doctoral School, Dr. Jordi Sauret, approved the criteria and requirements that must be applied to visiting researchers who request research in the different specialized chairs of the center.

According to these, which differentiate between pre-doctoral and post-doctoral degrees, people admitted with this academic status must state their status at eUniv in all their publications related to the research carried out, as well as in all the scientific calls in which they participate during his stay at eUniv.

Last academic year 2020-21, the Fiter i Rossell Chair in Legal and Political Science had as visiting researcher Dr. Eugenio Pérez de Francisco, from the Department of International Law at the University of Alcalá de Henares, and the European Communication Observatory, for their part, were attended by Dr. Clara Eugènia de Uribe Gil, professor at the School of Public Relations at the University of Barcelona. In the current academic year 2021-22, the Manuel de Pedrolo Chair has as visiting researcher the professor Mrs. Maria Pupysheva, of Moscow State Linguistic University, who is conducting a predoctoral stay led by Dr. Helena Serés.

This Friday, October 19, in the Plenary Hall of the Common House of Sant Julià took place the first defense of the doctoral thesis of the European University (eUniv) made by Mr. Jaume J. Barcons under the name of The groups of companies: A labor legal analysis of the Spanish case. The event, which began at 12 am, was attended by the Consul General of the Municipality, Josep Majoral, and the Consul General, Mireia Codina, as well as the corresponding academic authorities and more than fifty attendees.

The session ended at 2 pm with the handing over of the certificate corresponding to the doctoral student by the Presidency. Mr. Barcons emphasized his pride in being able to “celebrate such an important event in such an iconic place in Sant Julià”. Both the Consul General and Mr. Marc B. Escolà, academic secretary of eUniv, wanted to show “the university’s commitment to the territory and the will to make Sant Julià a reference space in university education”.

EUniv is an online university that offers studies in business administration, law, humanities and Catalan philology and was established in the Principality of Andorra by the Government Agreement of 18 December 2019. The European University is committed to a quality model that offers its students a unique methodology that includes 5 periods of admission, sequential subjects and a wide economic flexibility. The University currently has more than a hundred students from all branches of knowledge.

The Catalan Society for Legal Studies, a subsidiary of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC), has decided to create a scientific journal dedicated to Public Law, which complements those already created on Historical Law and Private Law. This magazine will be called Eiximenis, in homage to the author of the treatise on the Public Thing Regiment (1383), and in memory of the Francesc Eiximenis Prize for the best research work on legal, economic and social sciences, instituted in 1950 at the time Catalan Society for Legal, Economic and Social Studies, from which the current Society for Legal Studies emerged.

EUniv will be present in this new scientific project through Professor Dr. Marc B. Escolà, from the Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences, who is part of the Editorial Board of the journal and is the author, in the first issue, of the award presentation of the historical figure of Francesc Eiximenis.

The Academic Board of the University, meeting in ordinary session on October 19, 2021 at the headquarters of Sant Julià de Lòria, at the proposal of the Vice-Rector for Continuous Training and University Extension, unanimously adopted the agreement of its members to join the University European IMF for the Andorra, Biosphere Reserve candidacy, promoted by the Government of Andorra, in collaboration with the Institute of Andorran Studies, the Andorran Sustainability Observatory and Actua Innovació (https://andorrabiosfera.ad/).

This candidacy was created with the aim of achieving recognition for the model of balance between development and sustainability in Andorra, which also coincides with a key milestone: the development of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development. The candidacy will be presented during the month of April 2022 at UNESCO, which, within a period of approximately six months, will issue a resolution.

Dra. Marta Mitjans, in collaboration with Fragment, has organized a visit to the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) last Sunday, October 3rd.

The activity, which lasted two hours (from 12pm to 2pm), followed a Romanesque-Gothic-Modern route. In addition, Dra. Mitjans will repeatedly collaborate in this type of itinerary, which is open to the public and is conducted in Catalan.

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On September 7, the Academic Board of the eUniv approved the presentation, before the University Quality Agency of Andorra (UQAA), of the application reports for approval of the study plans of the bachelor in Communication and Psychology.

The UQAA officially communicated to the eUniv the acceptance of the applications and the start of their procedures on September 20.

Once the favorable reports from the UQAA will be obtained, the eUniv will be able to request the Government to approve the decrees for the approval of the study plans, with the anticipation that the new teachings can be implemented next academic year 2022-23.

Representatives of eUniv attended various events of the 53rd Catalan Summer University (UCE), held as every year in the town of Prada de Conflent. The pandemic prevented this attendance last year, so this call has been the first with the presence of eUniv.

Dr. Marc B. Escolà attended the event Universitat, país i recuperació democràtica, which took place on August 20, with the participation of the rectors of the UB, UAB, UOC, UPF and the UCE itself.

On the same day, the Coordinator of Humanities Education at eUniv, Xavier Fantova, took part in the event on L’espoli patrimonial del Museu de Lleida, with the presence of the bishop, the mayor and the president of the Diputació de Lleida.

Also, on Saturday, 21 other members of the eUniv delegation were able to attend the events organized by the Andorran Science Society at the UCE, as every year.

The latest issue of the General Journal of Labor and Social Security Law publishes the work of Jaume J. Barcons, visiting researcher at the J. H. Newman Doctoral School of eUniv, dedicated to the subject of labor company groups.

This article is part of his doctoral research and constitutes the first work of the eUniv Doctoral Program, implemented this year 2021, which reaches its publication in a specialized scientific journal.

The Rector of the eUniv, Dr. Antoni Noguero, has signed on July 27 the agreement to incorporate our university into the Turó de la Seu Vella Chair in Lleida, promoted by the University of Lleida (UdL) to promote protection of this historical heritage environment before UNESCO.

The signing ceremony, held at the Rector’s Office of the University of Lleida, was attended by the institutional presence of the major and minor consuls of the Sant Julià de Lòria Community, Josep Majoral and Mireia Codina, which is the promoter of the Association University campus. In this meeting they have been able to talk with the Rector of the UdL, Dr. Jaume Puy, about the positive dynamics that the relationship between city and university entails.

The Andorran pareatges of the thirteenth century, origin of the sovereignty of the Principality, were signed in the King’s Castle on this hill by the Bishop of Urgell and the Count of Foix before King Pere II, who was the guarantor. The commemoration of this momentous historical event is what motivates eUniv’s participation as the founding entity of this Chair.