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Carlos A. Scolari, PhD in Applied Linguistics and Languages of Communication at UPF, presents his latest book, Snack Culture, together with Jorge Carrión and Gabriela Pedranti.

The project Monstruos y hereos de mi ciudad seeks to raise awareness among the children of Medellín about environmental education

The new reality of post-covid-19 events has been the theme of the third session of the 10th Conference of the Master in Sports Management organized by the UPF Barcelona School of Management.

A study by the UPF Barcelona School of Management, published by the Naturgy Foundation, claims that in order to achieve sustainable urban distribution, it is necessary to combine the substitution of vehicle fuels and a reorganization of urban mobility with a logistics design adapted to the current needs of e-commerce.

The activity of Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB), the public group that manages the metro and bus network, generates an overall value of 2,395.6 million euros per year for Catalonia as a whole, 6.5 times more than what it receives in contributions from the administrations, according to the study "Impact of the social, economic and environmental value of TMB", carried out by the UPF Barcelona School of Management. 

The UPF Barcelona School of Management recovers the exhibition "La Gauche qui rit", which includes Colita's photographs of the characters of the intellectual life of Barcelona in the 70s that were censored. Mathilde Brodu, commissioner of the exhibition and head of the Culture Program, and Manel Jiménez, vice-rector of Educational Transformation, Communication and Culture, explain the keys to the exhibition in this article.

The exhibition "La gauche qui rit" sees the light again thanks to the UPF Barcelona School of Management, which recovers part of Colita's photographs censored during Franco's regime with a new exhibition, available at Balmes 132 until September.

MSC in Management students receive an award for best practice for their work on the BMW Group

Are the agendas of the digital economy and the green economy compatible? "Today these two agendas are not compatible, but we must make them so" is the summary of the conference with María Salamero from Agbar and Jordi Arrufí from the Mobile World Capital

What color is the traffic light of the oceans? What can we do as individuals to preserve them?  As part of the Environment Week, the UPF-BSM has hosted the OceanLab session: the adventure in the seas to save the planet, with the participation of the sailor Dídac Costa, the journalist Laura Secorun, the filmmaker Mònica Cambra and the scientist Miguel Ángel Mateo, who moderated by the director of the Sustainability Observatory, Oriol Montanyà, have talked about seas and their protection.

The director and researcher of the Sustainability Observatory, Oriol Montanyà and Erola Palau, respectively, analyze the current e-commerce model and its impact on the environment through concepts such as the last mile, the last yard or greenhouse gas emissions. 

Sensitivity to the planet has led to the emergence of a profile of an investor who is aware of the cause, more stable and non-speculative. Fàtima Vidal, lecturer in the Strategy and Entrepreneurship Academic Area, describes the profile of this investor and explains what kind of entrepreneurship he or she supports. 

In the framework of World Environment Day, UPF-BSM organizes a Micro TED Talks Marathon with students and alumni of the school aware of the fight for climate emergency and proactive in the environmental cause.

In the framework of the World Environment Day, Andrei Boar, lecturer of the Dept. of Finance, Accounting and Control, analyzes the existing transport methods in Barcelona and offers sustainable alternatives to mobility.

David Farrier, author of Footprints, is interviewed by journalist and Master in Scientific, Medical and Environmental Communication alumni at UPF-BSM, Luis Quevedo in context of the Environment World Day.