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51 predoctoral contract positions are being offered

51 predoctoral contract positions are being offered

The University has opened the application period for predoctoral contracts under the Martí Franquès research fellowship programme until June 25.

Ultra-processed foods increase cardiometabolic risk in children

Ultra-processed foods increase cardiometabolic risk in children

A study has associated the consumption of those products with a greater risk of overweight, increased blood sugar and worse levels of good cholesterol.

Keep moving forward with a master’s or postgraduate programme at the URV

Keep moving forward with a master’s or postgraduate programme at the URV

Choose your specialisation from more than 90 master’s and postgraduate courses at the URV. We offer high quality personal training that will significantly boost your professional profile.

Are you new to the URV?

Are you new to the URV?

Check the information you need to start the course on the right way. On this page you will find information about services that can be especially useful during these first days at the University.In view of this new challenge, we want you to know that Rovira i Virgili University we will accompany you all the time.

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Ultra-processed foods increase cardiometabolic risk in children

21/05/2024

A study led by the URV’s Human Nutrition Unit has associated the consumption of ultra-processed foods products with a greater risk of overweight, increased blood sugar and worse levels of good cholesterol

The European Commission honours the URV with the EU Gender Equality Champions award

15/05/2024

The award recognises the University for its high level of achievement through the implementation of its equality plans

The URV remains the second-best university younger than 50 years old in Catalonia and Spain

14/05/2024

The Times Higher Education “Young University Ranking” ranks the URV as the 112th best young university and confirms its excellence in teaching, research and knowledge transfer

The URV trains Ukrainian researchers to develop academic programmes in climate services in their country

06/05/2024

The training, the first in-person classes after COVID and the war, are being held this week at the Faculty of Tourism and Geography

URV researchers participate in a project to make roads safer and more sustainable

30/04/2024

The different actions have focused on applying advanced technologies to improve road safety and develop less polluting asphalt. The project is promoted by the Catalan Government and Tarragona Provincial Council

Researchers discover the mechanism that links a diet rich in fats with Alzheimer’s disease

29/04/2024

The results of this study, led by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, are a step forward in our understanding of the relationship between obesity, type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease

Demands to include women in decisions on the protection of human rights in the climate crisis

29/04/2024

In a scientific paper, the researcher from the URV’s Department of Public Law, Susana Borràs, discusses the vulnerability and lack of protection of migrant women and children

Adrià Vilalta wins the competition “Do you want to know what I research?” with a monologue on the role of taste receptors

17/04/2024

For yet another year, this competition was hosted by the Bartrina theatre, where six doctoral students from the URV explained what they were studying.

The URV has developed sensors to detect chemical warfare gases in crowded places

11/04/2024

Researchers from the Department of Electronic, Electrical and Automatic Engineering have coordinated a project to protect the civilian population against attacks with mustard and nerve gases

Five URV disciplines among the best in the world, according to the QS rankings

10/04/2024

For the sixth consecutive year, the University features on the QS World University Rankings by Subject in the disciplines of Nursing, Agriculture and Forestry, Chemical Engineering, Medicine and Chemistry

NT Sensors, from the URV to the five continents

02/04/2024

Now in its 15th year and with branches all over the world, this spin-off company, currently focuses on automatic instruments for measuring nitrate concentration

The URV has designed a free online training programme to integrate immigrants into the workforce

21/03/2024

The target audience of the courses, which are already available, are those people who have newly arrived from Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the professionals from the companies and organizations who welcome them

A method has been developed to protect and manage personal data on the internet

18/03/2024

A URV research team has created a system that allows users to keep track of who has their information and what it is used for at all times by means of a smart contract

The URV Festival repeats its success

15/03/2024

The performances by Tremenda Jauría, LesQueFaltaBand and DJ Trapella ended a day full of activities for thousands of participants

Art History and Archaeology students explore 3D technology to disseminate cultural heritage

13/03/2024

During the second edition of the Digital Twins conference they focused on techniques such as photogrammetry, virtual reality and storytelling, and analysed their role in the preservation and dissemination of heritage

The URV consolidates its international leadership in service learning, the professionalisation of doctoral studies and internationalisation at home

08/03/2024

Staff from 30 universities around the world are being trained at the URV, a benchmark in these areas of teaching, management and university research

A blood test will diagnose fibromyalgia more reliably

04/03/2024

A pioneering technique that a Universitat Rovira i Virgili, the Ohio State University and University of Texas researcher team has helped to develop enables this chronic disease to be identified more quickly and precisely

The doctoral student Fatemeh Behfar, awarded a prize by the University of Rome for a project revitalising the rooftops of a city in Iran.

29/02/2024

She suggests creating social, cultural and musical spaces on the rooftops of the city of Bushehr to revive the tradition of the Iranian city.

A new device uses a blood sample to identify patients with high cardiovascular risk

23/02/2024

The URV is part of the European project PoCCardio which is developing this innovative tool for quick detection that can be used in primary health-care centres.

Farewell to Joaquim Mallafrè, historic lecturer of Catalan language and literature at the URV and translator of universal works into Catalan

22/02/2024

An academic referent in Catalonia and Europe, he is responsible for the translations into Catalan of James Joyce's Ulysses and the complete theatrical work of Samuel Beckett

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