The Knowledge Transfer Office (KTO) of the Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB) managed 10,129,062 euros in 2025 for research and innovation, providing 3.6% more funds than the previous year. “The evolution of the UIB's transfer office is very positive: we are obtaining more resources, signing more contracts, and developing more projects”, summarized this Tuesday at a press conference the vice-rector for Innovation and Digital Transformation of the university, Lorenza Carrasco, who gave as an example of this commitment that the office has gone from having five people to twelve.

The felling and relocation of trees on the UIB campus, especially in the Can López car park (located behind the Guillem Cifre de Colonya and Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos buildings), has generated unease among part of the university community, who question the impact of the actions on the campus's landscape and natural heritage.

“All students should go through the Legal Clinic if they want to practice law”, assures the lawyer and project coordinator, Sebastià Arbós. The students who intern there agree and know that this "taste" of the real lawyer's profession is not found in law textbooks.

A maintenance technician suffered a workplace accident on the UIB campus this Tuesday. According to the university, the incident occurred when the worker, who was hanging from a banner on a balcony of the Anselm Turmeda building, fell and the metal walkway he was on collapsed. SAMU ambulances arrived at the scene and the man was stabilized by paramedics before being taken to a hospital. His current condition is unknown. The UIB has expressed its hope for his speedy recovery. The worker was taken to Son Espases Hospital, where he remains in stable condition in the emergency room with several fractures.

The Balearic Islands Bar Association will host a conference on the protection of linguistic rights on February 19th and 20th, with over one hundred legal and public administration professionals registered to attend. The conference is organized by the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), the Balearic Cultural Association (OCB), and the Institute of Balearic Studies (IEB). The President of the High Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands (TSJIB), Carlos Gómez, and the Rector of the UIB, Jaume Carot, will close the event. The Balearic Cultural Association emphasized in a press release that the perspective of legal protection is currently highly relevant given the regressive measures that, in their opinion, are gaining ground in several territories. In the case of the Balearic Islands, they warned that cultural and linguistic sustainability "is seriously at risk." Therefore, they stressed the urgent need to reverse this situation for the survival of Catalan. They also highlighted the positive collaboration between the organizing entities and noted that the conference will bring together top-level legal experts from universities across various regions. The conference will address how to legally protect freedom of language in diverse areas, including justice, healthcare, education, and digital administration. It will also analyze which regulations should be modified to guarantee the right to linguistic choice before state institutions. Finally, the last presentation of the conference will explore the feasibility of a new universal declaration of linguistic rights.

When he was born in December 1960, there were only two television channels. Before discovering and falling in love with the Tramuntana mountain range, he explored the Ports de Tortosa-Beseit. As a teenager, he joined his village's hiking club, and they would go on trips to the Pyrenees. We travel to the Baix Ebre region, in the municipality of Tortosa, to learn about the origins of Jaume Carot, the physicist and current rector of the University of the Balearic Islands, the third of four siblings. Before him came the twins Tomàs and Maria Cinta; the youngest was Elena, who lends her voice to these memories.

Screens are no longer just a source of occasional entertainment for children, but an everyday tool for managing household chores. In the Balearic Islands, a significant number of families admit to using digital devices to soothe children, manage boredom, or help them calm down, even before the age of six. This is one of the most relevant conclusions of the study. Analysis of screen use in children aged 0 to 6 years A study by the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), commissioned by the Regional Ministry of Education, is based on responses from 8,991 families. 91.6% of families believe their children overuse devices. According to the study, nearly half of the families admit to using screens to calm their children "sometimes" or "often," while a smaller but still significant percentage say they do so regularly. This pattern is especially prevalent among children aged 3 to 6, when device use is fully integrated into daily routines and is no longer exceptional. Boredom is another determining factor. The report shows that screens are used as an immediate resource when children don't know what to do, a function that transforms them into a tool for containment and time management. This instrumental use, aimed at facilitating coexistence and reducing conflict, coexists with the widespread perception among families that they establish rules and limits.

A team of researchers from the Electronic Engineering Group (GEE) at the Balearic Islands Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IAIB) has achieved a significant breakthrough in the field of high-performance intelligent processing. The group has designed and manufactured a chip with an innovative artificial intelligence architecture, specifically designed for energy-critical environments such as IoT devices and edge computing systems. The chip uses stochastic computing to implement a morphological neural network, a technique that enables a high degree of parallelization within the circuit and significantly increases energy efficiency. According to the researchers, "the probabilistic coding used in the chip resembles the way neurons in our brain operate when communicating with each other, and this is key to achieving high energy efficiency," explains Josep Lluís Rosselló, principal investigator of the project.

The Regional Ministry of Education will fund a new support program to facilitate the integration of Teaching and Research Staff (TRS) at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). This initiative, promoted through the Directorate General for Universities, Research, and Higher Artistic Education, aims to ensure that faculty members joining the university for the first time (and who have not been affiliated with the UIB in the last six years) have the necessary technological and material resources to immediately begin their teaching and research activities. The program targets departments that incorporate new full-time TRS, including assistant professors with doctorates from the Teaching and Research Talent Integration Program and staff hired with extraordinary contributions to compensate for the loss of teaching capacity resulting from the implementation of the Organic Law on Universities (LOSU). The measure will be applied retroactively from December 2024 and could benefit more than 100 faculty members and researchers. The Minister of Education, Antoni Vera, has expressed his commitment to public universities and to retaining talent through "dignifying the teaching and research profession." "This is the path we have set in motion, and the one we will continue to follow," he explained.

The Balearic Ministry of Education will develop training initiatives aimed at families with the goal of limiting screen time during early childhood. This decision comes after the publication of a UIB study that concludes that 91.6% of children between zero and six years old in the Balearic Islands make excessive use of digital devices, often before their first birthday. The report, entitled Analysis of screen use in children aged 0 to 6 years in the Balearic IslandsThis study was prepared at the request of the Government.

The Balearic Ministry of Education plans to increase the number of places available for the Master's Degree in Teacher Training at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), which currently offers 322 places and is in high demand. The measure, announced this Saturday, has been welcomed by the UGT Ensenyament teachers' union. "This is a measure the union has been demanding for years, as the lack of places, especially in the later years, had forced many aspiring teachers to pursue the Master's degree at private universities, with the resulting financial burden," they pointed out. This expansion, the union stated in a press release, is "a step in the right direction to guarantee equal opportunities in access to teacher training and to respond to the real needs of the Balearic education system."

In 1980, just two years after the creation of the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), Spain had 23 public universities and only 4 private ones. Eighteen years later, with the opening of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (1998), the balance of power had changed radically: 50 public universities and 18 private ones. Today, almost half a century later, the landscape has reversed even further. There are 50 public universities and 42 private ones in Spain, and private initiatives threaten to equal—or even surpass—the public offerings.

The board of directors of the Balearic Cultural Association has appointed Maria Antònia Perelló Femenia, PhD in Catalan Language and Literature and a specialist in the work of Joan Alcover, as coordinator of the events that the organization will organize to commemorate the centenary of Joan Alcover's death.

"What's certain is that there won't be any exams on Saint Sebastian's Day..." Joan Llull Febrer is a young man from Manacor studying Agricultural Engineering at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB). As a sign of protest (and also to celebrate), he dressed up as Saint Anthony this morning to take a third-year exam. It's not the first year that Juan has had an exam scheduled for January 16th, thus missing a good part of his town's festivities.

Another voice has joined the chorus of criticism regarding the changes to the syllabus for the call for applications for a position as an Artistic Heritage Technician at the Consell de Mallorca (Island Council of Mallorca). After The letter addressed to the island institution, signed by the rector of the UIB, Jaume CarotAfter demanding that specific training in art history be a requirement for the position, the Spanish Committee of Art Historians (CEHA) has now questioned the changes made to the syllabus for this post compared to previous calls for applications. "We wish to publicly express our deep concern and firm disagreement with the approach taken in this call for applications," stated sources from the organization, founded in 1977, adding, regarding the approved syllabus: "It has almost entirely relegated the content specific to our discipline and replaced it with a predominantly focused program." In the same statement, CEHA sources emphasized that "it is especially serious that a position intended to oversee the protection of movable property, painting and sculpture collections, and cultural assets of an artistic nature should disregard the knowledge necessary for their correct identification, interpretation, and historical assessment." Among others, topics such as 'Pre-Talayotic Culture in Mallorca through Archaeological Remains' and 'Mallorcan Gothic Painting' have disappeared, replaced by legal and administrative issues such as 'The Role of UNESCO and Advisory Bodies' and 'Unique Aspects of the Awarding Process'.

The ADEMA university center is considering becoming a private university under the name University of Mallorca (UMAC) or affiliating with Isabel I University. According to Diego González, president of the institution, they favor the former option. "The process is progressing. Our aim is to begin in September 2026. It's a broad project that will be implemented gradually," he says. ADEMA plans to offer eleven new degree programs not currently offered in the Balearic Islands, in areas such as Biomedicine, Sociology, and Architecture, in addition to those it currently offers as an affiliated center of the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB)—the public university has also announced that it will implement Architecture studies. González explains that the institution has the capacity to implement all the degree programs, but that "the bureaucratic process to launch them is not easy." When fully operational, the center aspires to have 3,000 students. The project has the approval of the PP, the party that supports the Balearic Government, which has presented a bill in favor of the University of Mallorca – it has already undergone public consultation. However, not everyone in the cultural sector is satisfied with the text of the law, and the OCB (Catalan Cultural Association) has submitted objections. The organization requests guarantees of respect for the Statute of Autonomy and the official status of Catalan, both in teaching and in the linguistic rights of students and faculty. It also warns that the name 'Universitat de Mallorca' could cause confusion with a public institution and proposes changing its name to clearly indicate its private nature. González asserts that ADEMA (Association of Cultural Entities of Mallorca) has held the trademark for years. "We thought that calling it the University of Mallorca would be appealing, that people would agree, more so than calling it the University of Wisconsin," he says.

The University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) has categorically rejected the proposals of the Speaker of the Balearic Parliament, Gabriel Le Senne, which it sees as bordering on linguistic secession. In a non-binding report submitted to the Parliament's governing board, and accessed by ARA Baleares, the university's Technical Commission on Linguistic Advice expresses its opposition to the Speaker's proposals. Le Senne, who also heads the provincial executive committee of the Vox party, is a staunch opponent of the unity of the Catalan language. He insists that all speeches "made in Mallorcan (or any of the Balearic varieties) be translated into standard Catalan." Among other things, he requested that the definite article be retained in the transcripts of members' speeches in the Parliament's official record. In response to this request, the governing board agreed to consult with the UIB.

In the Balearic Islands, "there is a racist bias in the use of the term 'migrant' compared to the term 'foreigner': the former arrive in boats, while the latter invest and buy houses," lamented Marmite, Professor of International Law at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) and also director of the Observatory of Migration in the Mediterranean (OMIMEDs). OMIMED is a project founded almost five years ago by a group of law professors from the UIB, which has since grown to 27 members, including other academics and professionals in the field. The initiative aims to be "intersectoral and interdisciplinary," allowing for research on migration "in the broadest sense," explained Capellà. "We often talk about people arriving in boats and foreigners, but there are people with Spanish nationality who still suffer discrimination," she warned.

The University Entrance Exams (PAU) of June 2025 registered a significant decrease in the use of Catalan. Only 65.9% of the exams were answered in Catalan, a drop of 2.25 percentage points compared to the previous year, confirming the continuation of a trend that began in 2018. Until a few years ago, the presence of Catalan exceeded or was close to 80%, with a historical high of 82.6% in 2014. This proportion is now close to the values observed in 2004. Analyzing the historical series since 1992, one can observe how the use of Catalan in the PAU has gone through several cycles. In the early years, the percentage of exams in Catalan was very low, only 26.9% in 1992, and it increased year after year until reaching a peak of 82.6% in 2014. However, from 2015 onwards, a gradual decline began to be noticeable, more pronounced in recent years, coinciding with the measurement of the measure of the measure of the