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The Agbar Chair in Institutional Communication of the Sustainable Development Goals was born with the aim of promoting study and knowledge about the future of the 2030 Agenda

UPF Barcelona School of Management (UPF-BSM) was recognized for its social impact and sustainability achievements when the Positive Impact Rating (PIR), international classification that evaluates the social impact of business schools from student valuation.

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.

Every year now, around June, we start to see a colorful invasion taking over the logos, websites, and social media accounts of many brands. It's pride month again! 

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 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.

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

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.

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

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 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.