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The overall aim of the “Facultad Cero” Process can be summed up with a simple question: “How would you design your university if you could start from scratch?” If this crucial question interests you, and you wish to contribute to rethinking and redesigning the University, you can sign up to take part in the “Facultad Cero” Process until Tuesday 10 April 2018.

The international conference ‘Towards New Protections for Migrant Workers’ will be held at the UGR from 19 to 20 April. The event has been organised within the framework of the Doctoral Programme in Migration Studies and the Doctoral Programme in Legal Sciences.

The UGR recently offered a course on the internationalization of higher education through international mobility programmes at the University of Mandalay (Myanamar) from 12 to 16 March 2018.

Researchers from the University of Granada, together with scientists from the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC), have identified the area of the brain that is directly involved in our aversion to toxic, spoiled or poisonous foods.

At the UGR we are firmly committed to promoting culture and the arts. In order to achieve this fundamental goal, we encourage both the university community and the general public to develop, and participate in, cultural activities.

The final of the 3 Minute Thesis competition will be held today, 19 March 2018 at the University of Granada and will be chaired by the Rector, Pilar Aranda.

The International Seminar on Translation and Accessibility in Heritage (SITAP) will take place in Granada between the 14 and 16 March 2018. It will include the participation of the Directors of the Victoria and Albert Museum (London) and the Royal Academy of Arts (London), who will present groundbreaking international projects from their institutions. They will be joined by experts on audio description in cinema (Game of Thrones), opera (Royal Theatre), accessibility in theatre and museums, as well as by specialists in the latest accessible technologies, including developers of applications for people with disabilities (Movistar S5). The event will come to a close with a signdance performance.

Archaeologists from the University of Granada have carried out excavations in the Biniadris Cave located on the Balearic Island of Menorca, uncovering enigmatic funeral rituals. This Bronze Age cave was used by different societies over 3300-2600 years ago.

Researchers from the University of Granada have analysed the changes that occur in the default mode network of the brain as a result of musical training throughout life, establishing that these changes could entail better decision-making and problem-solving skills.

UGRTerm is a bilingual (Spanish-English) database containing the official nomenclature of the University of Granada. The creation of this resource database, pioneering in the context of Spanish and Latin American universities, was proposed by the Directorate for Language Policy, part of the Vice-Rectorate for Internationalization, as a response to the need to systematically manage university terminology.