Research Café

The Research Cafés are informal meetings, organized by the libraries of the UPC, to learn about and enhance the visibility of the University's research staff projects.

These days bring together doctoral students, postdocs, academic staff and other members of the University and society to promote the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and collaboration between research areas.

Spirit of the research café summed up in one sentence

The spirit of the Research Café of the UPC summed up in one sentence.

The upcoming Research Café

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About the Observatory

Research Cafés why and for what?

With the organization of the Research Cafés, from the libraries, we want to:

Promote knowledge and open science.
Promote the social and cultural activity of the different campuses of the UPC.
Improve networking and cooperation in potentially interconnected research.

Organizing meetings focused on interest in research and innovation:

We make emerging research more visible on the different campuses of the UPC.
We will improve support services for research staff, in a personalized way.
We promote libraries as a meeting point and networking between the different groups that do research on the campuses.

Who are they aimed at?

The participation of doctoral students from the campuses of the is particularly interesting UPC, although the participation of other research staff and students doing final degree or master's work is also of great value.

The experience of libraries

As information professionals, we are aware of the diversity of needs and realities of the different groups of the university community and offer to act as network nodes between them to promote collaboration and mutual enrichment.

We also offer informative support in the development and management of open research to make it more visible and accessible.

Research Café held

Research Café 13: Research data

Quan: 30 May 2024 at 12.15pm

On: Classroom LS11, pavilion L (floor-1) of the ETSEIB

Organize: ETSEIB Library

About the Observatory: Juan Jesus Perez, Associate Dean for International Relations, ETS of Industrial Engineering (ETSEIB).

Program: They presented their experiences:

Gem Mijancos (BIOART - BIOsignal Analysis for Rehabilitation and Therapy)
Data in Biosignals: Our Experience

Louis Marco (ADBD - Complex Data Analysis for Business Decisions)
Data quality: some examples, some tricks, some thoughts

Massimo Cenciarini (CREB - Biomedical Engineering Research Center - BIOMEC - Biomechanical Engineering Lab)
Research data in human movement science: an international view over 2 decades

Oriol Gomis (CITCEA-UPC - Center for Technological Innovation in Static Converters and Drives - CER-H2 - Specific Hydrogen Research Center of the UPC)
Research in electrical engineering and grid integration of renewables

Research Café 12: Digital Humanities

Quan: April 24, 2024

On: CRAI Library of Philosophy, Geography and History, meeting room.

Carrer de Montalegre, 8.

Libraries that organize: Library ETSAB i CRAI Library of Philosophy, Geography and History (UB)

He led the session: Manel García Sánchez

Program: They presented their experiences:

Arnau Lario Devesa, Carlos Palacín Copado and Oriol Morillas Samaniego del Center for the study of provincial interdependence in classical antiquity (CEIPAC). Digital tools in the study of Greco-Roman economy and society.
Alex Saura. Urban footprints in Cairo: digital overlay of images and plans of a green city in the middle of the desert.
Ricard Garcia Orallo. Port Arrivals Date. Automatic data collection for a large-scale comparative history of 19th century shipping: a Digital Humanities approach to maritime heritage.
Monica Sambade. Spaces dedicated to the gods in early Greece.

presentations Videos

Research Café 11: Equity and artificial intelligence

Quan: November 21, 2023

On: EPSEVG Library

Libraries that organize: Baix Llobregat Campus Library i EPSEVG Library

This Research Café, aimed at students, teaching staff and research staff, dealt with the subject of artificial intelligence from different areas, addressing aspects such as security, education and knowledge.

Moderator: Didac Ferrer, Head of the Innovation and Community Cabinet

Participants:

Videos from the Research Café 11

Research Café 10: Open science - Open science

Open science - Open science

Quan: October 25, 2023

On: Master Classroom. Campus Nord UPC

Libraries that organize: Library of theETSAB i Rector Gabriel Ferraté Library

An informal gathering held during Open Access Week 2023 for PhD students, postdocs and researchers to share research practices and cross-disciplinary ideas on aspects of Open Science such as FAIR data, open source, data privacy and citizen science. He had the presence of Rafael Vidal, delegate of the chancellor in Open Science and Citizen Science who told us about Open Science at the UPC.

Moderators - Ruth Íñigo and Marta Serrat

Participants:

Rafael Vidal - Open Science at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Inés Aquilué - FURNISH: Co-creating new public spaces in times of pandemics

Rodrigo Alfonso Pérez Illanes - The git versioning system as a tool for supporting research and Open Source development

jamie delgado - FAIR principles and health data, security and privacy

Salvador Capella-Gutiérrez - Open Sciences principles for Life Sciences: is it everything about data?

See the presentations

Research Café 9: UPC Vilanova Research Café

UPC Vilanova Research Café

GIVE YOUR SEARCH VISIBILITY!

Quan: May 18, 2023, from 10:00 a.m. at 13.00:XNUMX p.m.

On: Workroom 6 of the EPSEVG Library

Libraries that organize: EPSEVG Library

An informal meeting to share and give visibility to the research of the doctoral students on the Campus and to promote their interaction and integration on the Campus.

They will conduct the session - Hernán Alberto González Rojas and Maria Hortènsia Álvarez Suau.

They shared their experiences:

Núria Martínez, Txus Melo (International Office and Resources, Finance and Services United, EPSEVG): Welcome to the campus: services and useful information
Gerard Batet Xaus (SARTI): Developing a miniaturized bidirectional acoustic tag
Heribert Pascual Saldaña (CRAAX): A decentralized edge-based AI-assisted solution towards a proactive ambulatory oxygen delivery therapy
Marco Francescangeli (SARTI): Fish community monitoring with cabled seafloor platforms
Francis Albert Tortosa (AMPC): Study of pigment alterations in Roman wall paintings [online format]
David Lázaro Rodríguez Lima (SARTI): Optimization of the McEliece Cryptosystem
Rina Liang (CITES): Design for sustainability transition
Ayaz Hussain (CRAAX): Predictive Analytics-based Strategies for Cyber-Security Provisioning in complex ICT systems
Mojtaba Godhrati (SEPIC): Microgrid
Erick David Chavez Pereda (GAECEQS): Study and identification of mechanical parameters while cutting soft tissues with vibrating hypodermic needles

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Research Café 8: Cities and sustainable communities

ODS 11. Cities.

How to make cities and communities more sustainable and resilient.

Quan: May 11, 2023, from 9:30 a.m. at 14:00 p.m.

On: Hall of Degrees ETSAB

Libraries that organize: Library of theETSAB i Rector Gabriel Ferraté Library

An informal meeting with PhD students, postdocs and researchers to share, with a coffee in hand, research practices and ideas in a transdisciplinary way.

He will lead the session - Blanca Arellano

They will present their experiences:

Cossima Cornadó: Codesign and Cofabrication to improve living conditions in El Raval neighborhood
David Requejo: Drinking water in Barcelona through the lenses of sustainability
Marcel Hurlimann: Building a safe haven for our society against natural hazards
Monica Aguilar and Javier Parra: Mobilytics Project
John Matthew: air quality
Victor Diaz Asensio: El paisaje como modelo / Landscape as a model
Qianhui Zheng: Workice and evaluation of sponge city strategies for flash flooding mitigation in Mediterranean coastal cities, a case study of El Poblenou, Barcelona
Gonzalo Piasek: Urban regeneration policies: what are the limits of citizen engagement?

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Research Café 7: The new era of efficient and sustainable buildings

SDG 7: The new era of efficient and sustainable buildings.

Energy engineering and architecture creating synergies.

Quan: May 4, 2023, from 12:00 a.m. at 14:00 p.m.

On: Campus Diagonal Besòs. Polyvalent Classroom Building I

Libraries that organize: Diagonal Besòs Campus Library i Library of theETSAB

An informal meeting with PhD students, postdocs and researchers to share, with a coffee in hand, research practices and ideas in a transdisciplinary way. This edition of the Research Café, organized by the Diagonal-Besòs Campus Library and the Oriol Bohigas Library of theETSAB, focuses on energy: how to create sustainable and energy-efficient buildings.

Drive session - Herminio Martinez

They present their experiences:

Kasper Moth-Poulsen: Solar Thermal Management Materials
Letiane Beninca: Multi-objective optimization of residential multifamily buildings to minimize cooling and heating simultaneously
Edgardo Saucedo: Sunbright buildings: generating solar energy in our cities
Paul Espinoza: The Electronic Building Book: a tool to promote the rehabilitation of buildings in Spain

presentations

In this Research Café, projects where energy engineering and architecture create synergies were presented. Projects linked to the ODS Affordable and non-polluting energy.

Research Café 6: Seas and oceans

Order date: 19 October 2022, 9.30am-13.00pm

place: EEABB, Sala Mercabarna. campus Baix Llobregat

Organization: Baix Llobregat Campus Library i EPSEVG Library

Network tracking: #SDGs, #researchcafeUPC, #marsoceans, #seasandoceans and also live feed from twitter

Moderator: Lourdes Reig Puig

Participants:

Pedro Arnau del Amo

Marcos Paulo Araujo da Silva

Adriano Camps Carmona

Oriol Carrasco Serra

Steffen De Vreese

Ahmad Falahzadeh

Guillem Figueras Manzanares

ViceMr. Gracia Garcia

Núria Jimenez Garcia

Cesca Ribas Prats

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In this Research Café, projects will be presented where technology is put to the service of the seas and oceans, and which are linked to the ODS objectives Underwater Life i Action for the climate.