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  • Análisis de la percepción social de las estrategias de acomodación y las Soluciones Basadas en la Naturaleza (SBN) en el frente litoral catalán 

    Badia Puyol, Montserrat; Giffard, Elsa Margaux; Roca Bosch, Elisabet; Villares Junyent, Míriam (Universitat Politècnica de València, 2024)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    La zona costera mediterránea se enfrenta a un aumento significativo de los riesgos costeros debido al cambio climático. Las estrategias de adaptación tradicionales ya no son suficientes y se necesitan soluciones más ...

  • Students developing research: life-cycle assessment in the pig sector 

    Sánchez Gutiérrez, Fredd Oliver; Cervantes Torre-Marín, Gemma (International Association of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), 2024)
    Conference report
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    Students being able to develop research in the future is one of the most important achievements in Higher Education. At CITES (Science and Technology of Sustainability) research group at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya ...

  • Moral responsibility in decision-making for design engineering projects 

    Puig Poch, Mireia; Mañach Moreno, Antoni (International Association of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), 2024)
    Conference report
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    The climate emergency marks a turning point for clearly addressing the three pillars of sustainability: environmental, social, and economic. This focus is particularly crucial in design engineering, as design engineers ...

  • Propuesta de un cuatrimestre cero para la asignatura de Expresión Gráfica en la Escuela de Ingeniería de Barcelona Este (UPC) 

    Davila Cordido, Mariolly; Parga Vázquez, Andrea María; Farrerons Vidal, Óscar (2024)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    Se busca fortalecer la asignatura Expresión Gráfica, impartida en los siete grados de ingeniería de la Escola d'Enginyeria de Barcelona Est, EEBE, UPC, con la implementación de un cuatrimestre cero. El objetivo es fomentar ...

  • Numerical investigation of different cooling technologies during heatwaves in Catalan Mediterranean buildings 

    Garrido Soriano, Núria; Capdevila Paramio, Roser; Tontodonati, Enrico; Borghero, Luca (Institute of Physics (IOP), 2024)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    The Mediterranean area is particularly affected by heatwaves, which are extremely critical for health and productivity of people inside the dwellings as well as for energy consumptions related to cooling demand. This study ...

  • Energy analysis of resilient cooling technologies in Mediterranean buildings – A case study 

    Capdevila Paramio, Roser; Garrido Soriano, Núria; Tontodonati, Enrico (International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA), 2023)
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    Covenantee:   Politecnico di Torino
    Buildings represent 40% of energy consumption and residential buildings accounted for 27% of final energy consumption in Europe. It could be even more due to the effects of climate change. The severity of weather will ...

  • Implementació a l’aula del projecte BOSC i sostenibilitat: Curs de formació del professorat 

    Mulero Jiménez, Lorena; Cunill Solà, Jordi; Grau Vilalta, Maria Dolors (Congrés Internacional de Docència Universitària i Innovació (CIDUI), 2023)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    S’analitzarà la singularitat del curs de formació per al professorat “Implementació a l’aula del Projecte Bosc i sostenibilitat” (110 inscrits en les tres edicions). El professorat assistent té un paper de co-creació, ...

  • Developing personas to improve understanding of users’ needs in digital mobility: An experience of the DIGNITY project in the Barcelona Metropolitan Area 

    Wybraniec, Bartosz Maciej; Ortego Martínez, María Isabel; Roca Bosch, Elisabet; Goodman-Deane, Joy; Nesterova, Nina (Elsevier, 2023)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Covenantee:   University of Cambridge / Breda University of Applied Science
    This paper contributes to the understanding of the end users’ needs and capabilities in digital mobility by presenting a set of personas developed using data from a population-representative survey conducted among 601 ...

  • Circular economy for pigs: an academic research proposal 

    Cervantes Torre-Marín, Gemma; Cuevas Rodríguez, Germán (International Association of Technology, Education and Development (IATED), 2022)
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    Covenantee:   Universidad de Guanajuato
    Some academic research projects have been developed in Universidad de Guanajuato, in Guanajuato state (México) and in Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, in Catalunya (Spain) related to circular economy applied to pigs, ...

  • New tools to motivate STEM students towards early-career self-management 

    Torres Torres, Francisco; Kopecká, Eva; Garrido Soriano, Núria; Pechová, Helena; Silvestre Bergés, Santiago; Hrad, Jaromír; Zeman, Tomáš (European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI), 2022)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), the Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU) and the Universidade de Lisboa have recently undertaken the Engine4STEMers project, a joint initiative devoted to generating a ...

  • Integrating Sustainability snd Social Commitment (S&SC) competences in the curriculum at the Barcelona School of Civil Engineering 

    Roca Bosch, Elisabet; Real Saladrigas, Esther; Ferrer Martí, Ivet (European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI), 2022)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    The importance of integrating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in the curriculum of all the bachelor and master degrees at UPC has been legally and institutionally recognised. At the Barcelona School of Civil ...