Alfredo Rocafort, president of the Governing Board of the Royal European Academy of Doctors-Barcelona 1914 (RAED), gave the master lesson that accompanied the academic act of investiture of the new doctors of the International University of Catalonia (UIC), as well as the delivery of the special doctorate prizes. The solemn session was held in the Aula Magna of the Campus of Barcelona on January 26, coinciding with the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, patron of schools and universities.
Rocafort wanted to highlight the high number of doctoral theses that have been defended in this last year in the UIC, a total of 110, which is a good example of the maturity that has reached a university that has become a benchmark in the studies of second and third cycle at the international level. Also, the president of the RAED has encouraged new doctors not to stay in the title, but this is the beginning of a long and successful career in the world of science and research. “The society that has allowed you to get here needs you”, he said.
The event was also chaired by the rector of the UIC, Xavier Gil, and the director of its Doctoral School, Núria Casals, who also encouraged the new doctors to work for a wiser and more just society. On behalf of them, Jaume Figa thanked family and friends for their patience with the doctoral students during their years of research. Gil, on the other hand, congratulated them for the investiture and encouraged them to continue their scientific career with a maxim of St. Thomas: “Don’t want to enter the sea immediately, but through the streams, because the difficult must be reached by the easy”. The ceremony concluded with the traditional hymn “Gaudeamus Igitur”.
