The UAB is a public university, young, full of energy, of ideas and of an innovative spirit, a ‘disruptor’, not afraid to take risks in teaching, in research and in knowledge transfer to society. It is rooted in and committed to its country and, at the same time, is open to the world, and with the fullest confidence in knowledge, in science and in technical know-how as instruments for building a better, more sustainable and much fairer world.