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Prof Aïda Valls, who recently received the DonaTIC 2023 Award, was also invited to the Round Table "Amb Veu de Dona", an event organized by SER Tarragona to make Tarragona women visible who are leaders in different fields.
Port of Tarragona was the scene of several debates in which women from different economical sectors participated, who for more than two hours talked about inequality, wage gap, the lack of female references and the need to promote global policies to reverse certain realities.
The presence of women in the industrial sector is only 28%. This was the starting point of the first round table, which co-chaired Prof. Aïda Valls together with Mercè Puig, general secretary of CCOO Tarragona, and Anna Navarro, head of strategy, quality and innovation at Port of Tarragona. They talked about the sorority, the empowerment to be on the front line or the incentives and workshops held in schools to encourage scientific and technological vocations.
Generalitat de Catalunya awarded Prof. Aïda Valls, director of the ITAKA research group and researcher of TecnATox, with the DonaTIC2023 Award in the academic/researcher category. Prof. Valls is one of the seven women distinguished in the different categories among the 86 presented candidates.
DonaTIC2023 awards recognize the talent of women in the professional, business and academic world of new technologies and the STEAM (science, technology, engineering, humanities and mathematics) disciplines. These leaders offer contemporary references to girls and girls in order to encourage them to dedicate themselves to these areas and to assume leadership positions.
More information about the event can be found at https://diaridigital.urv.cat/aida-valls-premi-dona-tic-2023/.
Dr. Joaquim Rovira has been invited by the Association of Dietitians-Nutritionists of Catalonia (CoDiNutCat) as a speaker of a conference about the consumption of microplastics and health effects. The conference will take place at November 25 (9 h) in the framework of the XI Meeting of the CoDiNutCat held in BCIN, Badalona Centre Internacional de Negocis, Badalona (Barcelona).
In October 26, our colleague Marta Herrero defender her PhD thesis, entitled Exposure to chemicals through textiles: Health risk assessment and supervised by Dr. Joaquim Rovira and Dr. Martí Nadal. The thesis was awarded with an overall classification of excellent and the cum laude distinction.
The thesis is the final outcome of the EarlyCLOTHES project, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (PID2019-104443GB-I00).
Congratulations to Dr. Marta Herrero!
The Erasmus + Project “DISCERN-A customised Digital Space to Foster Circular Economy Entrepreneurship with SMEs” has released the fifth newsletter. We invite you to read it in Spanish or English by clicking on this news.
