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The Covid-19 pandemic had an impact on the choice of bachelor's degree studies related to health. The most significant factors were the desire to help other people (33.2% of cases), enhance civic values (28.4%) and contribute to improving the situation in the country (27.5 %).

The 25 research groups currently working at the University of Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC) have been recognised by the Government of Catalonia in the latest SGR-Cat 2021 (Research Group Support) call, which has just been published its provisional ruling.

Marketing and business communication are important tools for the growth and success of companies in today's competitive globalised environment.

UVic has founded the Postgraduate School, which is taking over from the institution's International Centre for Continuing Education, in order to enhance and improve the focus of its lifelong learning courses.

Catalonia has been working to prevent food loss and waste for some years, through the Catalan Ministry of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda and the Catalan Waste Agency. In fact, Catalonia is the first region in Europe to have specific legislation in this area: Law 3/2020.

Two leading figures from the world of sport, Pep Guardiola and Manel Estiarte, will head the new Chair of Leadership in Values at the University of Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC), which will be based on the Manresa Campus. The Chair was established to promote styles of leadership that have a positive impact on both the local and global environment, and the personal and professional backgrounds of the two directors will contribute to making its principles and objectives more visible, and raising its international profile.

At its meeting on Tuesday afternoon, the Board of Trustees of the Balmes University Foundation approved the clearance of the budget for the 2021-2022 academic year, and gave the green light to the budget for 2022-2023. This year's budget includes a volume of revenue of 52 million Euros, a figure that is an increase of 7.5% compared to the previous year, which with 48.5 million Euros was balanced at the close of the year.

A total of twelve fifth-year students in the UVic-UCC Faculty of Medicine completed their internship abroad last week. They were the first students in the faculty to do an international mobility internship, as the first cohort has now reached the fifth year in the bachelor's degree course in Medicine, at which point students can apply for outgoing mobility.

The Institute for Research and Innovation in Life Sciences and Health in Central Catalonia (IRIS-CC) is now up and running. The Institute's Board of Trustees met on 31 May and it began work in 1 June. More than 300 researchers had already expressed their wish to join when it was established.

The benefits of correctly applying mindfulness, a technique endorsed by science which can help with psychological approaches to some pathologies with professional guidance and a therapeutic orientation was one of the central topics that was discussed at the II International Congress on Mental Health and Social Innovation that took place in Manresa on Friday, and which was attended by more than a hundred professionals from all over the world.