The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona was founded in 1968. The founders aimed to establish four principles of autonomy: freedom to select teaching staff, admission available to all students (but with a limited number), freedom to create its own study plans and freedom to administrate the University's capital. It is therefore a young university, but in its short history it has moved forward at a rapid pace.
The UAB departments are units in charge of organising and developing the activities of the teaching and research staff. Each department corresponds to a field of knowledge and is divided into even more specific areas. The UAB has over sixty departments which cover all disciplines of knowledge.
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Social Sciences and Law Scholarships
Below you will find scholarships related to Social Sciences and Law. Distinction can be made between scholarships provided by the University and those provided by independent providers.
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We are one of the few universities in Spain to have a university campus. UAB's infrastructure was created exclusively for university life and the campus provides all the services you need for your academic, leisure and everyday life.
University Village
Our campus provides many facilities and services for housing our students. The University Village (Vila Universitària) is strategically located, offering comfortable accommodation for students or members of faculty who come from outside the area. The 640 residential units vary in size, providing accommodation for a total of 1,806 people with a wide variety of available services and benefits.
It is a real on-campus city, with parks, leisure areas and all the basic services that residents require (laundry, bakery, supermarket, etc.), and regular road and rail connections with Barcelona, Sabadell, Cerdanyola del Vallès and Sant Cugat del Vallès. The Village provides residential units to suit all requirements, designed to offer both comfortable living conditions as well as the best possible environment for study.
Societies
UAB has a long tradition of university societies. Over a hundred societies and student groups work to encourage members of the university community to take part in extracurricular activities. Their contribution enables students to develop a range of skills that will be extremely important in their professional future for businesses and the labour market in general. The societies cover political, cultural, social, sporting and professional areas.
Cultural activities
Cultura en Viu (Live Culture) is the cultural support and promotion programme run by the UAB's Arts Centre. Its aim is to generate and promote artistic activities on an inter-faculty basis, making them available to all members of the university community. It also acts as a cultural information point on campus, offering details of all cultural events taking place at university and information on how to organise your own event. UAB's regular cultural groups bring together students, teachers and Administration and Services Staff with similar cultural interests. There are currently eight different organisations working in artistic areas such as drama, the plastic arts, music, literature, the moving image and popular culture:
- Dance Workshop
- Music Workshop: Choir, Orchestra and Modern Music Combos
- Theatre Workshop
- Image Centre
- Fritz Lang Cineclub
- Colla Castellera Ganàpies
- Espai B5-125 de Arte
- Quark Poetry
Some of the activities organised by these established cultural groups are recognised by UAB as free-choice credits.
Voluntary service
The Fundació Autònoma Solidària (Solidarity Foundation) runs various social programmes promoting equal opportunities and satisfying the educational and social requirements of all people involved in education. Volunteers at the UAB run programmes helping the disabled to integrate, support studying from prison, work in hospitals, organise activities promoting peace and disarmament, and coordinating sporting and cultural activities. The Volunteers Programme Office provides support for all these activities and is responsible for training volunteers.
Cooperation programme
Solidarity, international cooperation and diversity have always been important values for Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. The Cooperation for Development area of UAB's Solidarity Foundation (FAS) was set up during the 2004/05 academic year to promote these important principles.
Support is given to international cooperation initiatives stemming from the University community, with information given on different grants available from public and private organisations. Those interested in such initiatives can also receive advice on how best to implement them.
Cooperation for Development works in a network with various agents and participates in working groups to promote cooperation in the broadest sense of the term and to inform on the work carried out by the UAB in different developing countries.
The main objectives are:
- To support the University community in cooperation projects for development, providing information on development schemes and policies and supporting project management.
- To manage the UAB Solidarity Fund.
- To raise awareness among the University community of the inequalities in our world.
- To represent the UAB in internal and external forums discussing cooperation for development.
- To promote active involvement in cooperation projects and management tasks with Cooperation for Development.
- To implement the university's policies on cooperation for the development.
Immigration and University Programme
This pilot programme aims to contribute to helping immigrants and immigrant communities from outside the EU by promoting equal opportunities in university education. The UAB wants to promote a positive image of immigrants with a key role to play in society.
The initiative will initially focus its efforts on those immigrants who have come to Catalonia after completing their secondary studies, but will also work on policies to promote university access for children of ethnic minorities currently in their final years of high school who for various reasons may not see university as a viable option.
The programme will also look at wider issues related to foreign immigration in Catalonia and the problems associated with integration.
The Immigration and University Programme works alongside the city councils of Cerdanyola, Sabadell and Barcelona, and the Vallès Oriental County Council.