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The event was attended by the Secretary of State for the Environment of Andorra and about twenty experts from the sector to discuss the challenges that public administrations must face

The act “The circular economy and the management of urban waste in Andorra and Catalonia” organized by the eUniv has gathered around sixty people at the headquarters of the Escola Superior de Relacions Públiques (ESRP). The event served to highlight the various challenges faced by the public administrations of Andorra and Catalonia and to discuss possible solutions. The Secretary of State for Agriculture, Environment and Sustainability, Marc Rosselló, and about twenty experts have participated in the different debate tables that addressed the problem from a transversal point of view.

The director of the Environmental Studies Center of the eUniv, Dra. Conxa Puebla, has affirmed that “the day has been a great success and highlights the real difficulties of implementing Circular Economy measures that affect the management of urban and municipal waste, both in Andorra and Catalonia “. The rector of the eUniv, Dr. Antoni Noguero explained that “it is for this reason that the Center for Environmental Studies, together with the European Communication Observatory of the Doctorate School J.H. NEWMAN of the eUniv, have decided to convene a specific conference dedicated to this challenge”.

The eUniv is an Andorran University that offers online studies in the fields of business administration, law, humanities, psychology and the Catalan language. It was formally established in December 2019 and began its academic activity in the 2020-2021 academic year. Since then, more than 170 Andorran, Spanish and Latin American students have enrolled in the different studies offered by the university.

Last Saturday, October 15, the signing ceremony of the agreement between eUniv and the Fundació Futura Penedès took place, in the Cloister of the Convent of Sant Francesc in Vilafranca del Penedès.

By virtue of this institutional collaboration agreement, the President of the Fundació Futura Penedès, Mrs. Maria J. Tuyà, joins as a member of the Academic Senate of the eUniv. The agreement also includes the transfer to the eUniv Library of the Bernat Metge Foundation’s complete collection of classical texts in Latin and Greek translated into Catalan, as well as other bibliographic funds of interest for university research.

In the signing ceremony, the University Medal was also awarded posthumously to Max Miret, from Penedes, who passed away in August, who gave eUniv a selection of his bibliographic collection.

The Spanish publishing house IUSTEL, of recognized specialization in the field of Legal Sciences, has published in its Monographies collection, the version translated into Spanish of the doctoral thesis of Dr. Jaume J. Barcons The business groups: a labor legal analysis of the Spanish case, directed by Dr. Jesús M. Prujà and defended last November 2021. 

The book can be found in bookstores from September or directly on the publisher’s website:

• https://bit.ly/3Sz60Pp

The Official Gazette of the Principality of Andorra (BOPA) publishes in its edition of September 21, 2022 the decree of the Government of Andorra approving the eUniv Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology.

The decree was approved in the session on Wednesday, September 14, 2022, after the favorable report of the Andorran Higher Education Quality Agency of May 2, 2022.

Like all eUniv Bachelor’s degrees, the Psychology degree is divided into three academic courses (six semesters) of 60 European credits each. The Bachelor in Psychology will be taught online, but the mandatory internships will have to be done in face-to-face centers.

According to the decree, qualified people will be able to practice in the fields of educational psychology, social intervention, organizations and human resources, psychogerontology, physical activity and sport, and also traffic and road safety.

The Academic Board of the University agreed in its ordinary session in September, at the behest of the Academic Prothonotary, the creation of the General Archive of the eUniv under the responsibility of the Praelector of the university.

The General Archive will be organized into three Sections: Academic, Institutional and Administrative, which will incorporate, following an organic classification, all the documents issued and received by each and every one of the University’s organic units.

The General Archive will have a digital version, which will be duplicated and updated in the cloud, and a printed version on paper, which will be kept at the University headquarters, with which the continuity of academic and administrative activities can be ensured in case of computer attacks like those experienced by other universities in the area.

200 kilometers are what separate the itinerant headquarters from the previous seven editions of this year’s edition of the Graphic Symposium. The VIII edition of the academic meeting was held at the headquarters of the European University (eUniv) in Sant Julià de Lòria (Andorra). The European Observatory of Communication (OEC) of the eUniv has made it possible to gather the speakers in the Rocafort Room of the Cultural and Congress Center of Sant Julià de Lòria. The participants, whether online or face-to-face, were able to attend conferences and presentations by researchers, master classes and debate tables, such as those of the professional associations of Graphic Design of Catalonia and Marketing , Advertising, Public Relations and Communication.

At the opening ceremony, the rector of eUniv, Dr. Antoni Noguero, stated that this year’s edition of the Graphic Symposium “reinforces its international character”. In this way, to the participation in previous editions of countries such as Chile, Colombia, Ecuador or Mexico, this year the celebration outside Barcelona is added this year – taking advantage of the fact that from now on the permanent headquarters of the Symposium is linked to the eUniv based in Andorra-.

Josep Majoral, Consul Major of Sant Julià de Lòria, opened the VIII Graphic Symposium explaining that Sant Julià “is a seat with a strong university component”. For his part, Dr. Daniel Tena, member of the Scientific Committee and Organizer of the Graphic Symposium, wanted to emphasize the objective of the meeting, noting that it is to “open new horizons”. The opening ceremony was enlivened by Xavi Pérez with an artistic interpretation in which, based on Ken Garland’s First things first manifesto (1964 and subsequent updates in 2000), he brought sound and visual stimuli closer to a reflection about consumerism, art and humanity.

The academic program has started with Andreu Van Hooft, from the Radboud University of Nijmegen, with a conference on Language and Advertising that would give way to the traditional Brindana. The second and third days of the Graphic Symposium were devoted to research and didactic tables with presentations focusing on graphic design and advertising.

Many of the research and research works in relation to graphic design and advertising creativity and communication have been presented in oral or poster format. In this way, teaching and didactics, research and scientific dissemination, the various professional experiences (tables of the Professional Colleges), teaching and research, have given the VIII Symposium graphic sketch a scenario in which it will be necessary to follow delving into these issues.

For this reason, the next edition of the graphic symposium will be at the “Centro Internacional de Estudios e Investigación en Tecnologías Gráficas y Comunicación Científica (TGRAF)”, which has its headquarters at Campus Lumiar, Edificio L, “Print Research Lab” of the ISEC Lisbon. The IX edition of the Graphic Symposium will be held on September 6, 7 and 8, 2023 and will focus on the strategic complicity between form and content.

The Academic Board of the University agreed in its ordinary session in September, at the request of the Academic Prothonotary, to reorder the initial structure of the teaching faculties in order to simplify it and adapt it to the classic structure.

From this reorganization, the first faculty will include teaching staff linked to the areas of scientific knowledge of Arts and Humanities, the second to Law and Social Sciences, and the third to Medicine and Health Sciences, which is created now to be able to accommodate the new teaching staff of the state Psychology studies and of the Odontology studies. It is also planned to create a fourth faculty when Theology studies are implemented at the eUniv.

The agreement also provides that each faculty will use a single color in the solemn academic events, which will correspond to the classic university tradition: sky blue for the first, red for the second, yellow for the third and white for in the future quarter.

In accordance with the statutes of the eUniv, the position of Dean is held by the professor with the doctoral degree who is older, and the Secretary corresponds to whoever is younger.

The Institute of Catalan Studies convened a summer course dedicated to the iconic figure of Sant Jordi, organized in Montblanc by the Friends of Romanesque Art on August 26, 27 and 28. Specialists in philology, history and the arts from various universities and academic institutions took part in this year’s program. eUniv participated with the presentation by Dr. Josep M. Sans i Travé, member of the Academic Senate, on the knights of the military orders of the Temple, the Hospital and the Sant Redemptor, and was accompanied by Dr. Eladi Llop and Dr. Marc B. Escolà, Vice-Chancellor and Academic Prothonotary, respectively, of the eUniv, as well as several doctoral students.

The institutional representatives of the university transferred to the organization of these summer courses of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans the offer of all the support of the eUniv to hold them in Sant Julià de Lòria from next year.

On July 13, 2022, was signed the agreement by which the International Dental Training Center (FIO), based in the parish of Encamp, is incorporated as an associated center of the eUniv for the teaching of degrees of postgraduate specializing in dental implantology.

FIO has been organizing continuing education programs around the world (South and Central America, India, the Philippines, Armenia, etc.) for a decade, under the direction of Dr. Jaume Franco, signatory of the association agreement.

FIO’s teaching staff will be integrated into the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the eUniv, together with the Faculty of Psychology and the other centers of this branch of knowledge.

The association agreement has an initial duration of two renewable years and will enter into force on September 1, 2022, coinciding with the start of the academic year 2022-23.

The sessions of the Doctoral Seminar on the History of Universities, convened by the J. H. Newman Doctoral School, were held on July 4 and 5, 2022. The sessions took place in the seminar rooms of the Lauredià Cultural and Congress Center.

This scientific call was organized by the Universities and Country Doctoral Research Line. The doctoral students of the line attended on a mandatory basis and were able to present and discuss their research. The Seminar was also attended by three prominent university historians: Dr. Rafael Ramis (University of the Balearic Islands), Dr. J. J. Busqueta (University of Lleida) and Dr. Fco. Fdz. Luzón (Autonomous University), who shared their research perspectives with doctoral students.

The Comú de Sant Julià, for its part, in addition to providing the communal facilities, organized a Lauredian route for all those attending the Seminary and the Lauredian consuls accompanied them to the closing lunch of the academic event.