From the moment a university decides to launch a new degree program until the first students graduate, approximately seven years typically elapse. This includes the four standard years of a degree program, but also the roughly three years spent developing the project and completing the process that determines which degrees are offered at Catalan universities. Within this process, one of the key and mandatory steps is that the degree proposal receives a favorable evaluation from the Catalan University Quality Agency (AQU). Only one in ten projects passes this filter. This information comes from data compiled by AQU, which ARA has consulted, regarding the number of proposals for new degrees, master's programs, or doctoral programs that the agency has evaluated in the last five years to issue a report certifying the quality of these future programs.

For the first time in a century, Parisians can once again bathe in the Seine. The French capital took advantage of last year's Olympic Games to change residents' relationship with their river. In Bern, the river is a highway for people to let loose and go to the Swiss capital's large swimming pool area. This also happens, to a lesser extent, in the urban area of Girona, where from the Glory and the coronavirus has completely changed the relationship with the Ter.

The fact that the reservoir level, on average, is above 50% is good news. Very good. For starters, it guarantees a summer that won't suffer as much as the previous one in most of the country. It's been almost three years, since July 2022, since there was a similar amount of water in the reservoirs. The rains in March have made their mark. But we also know that there is a good depth of accumulated snow in the Pyrenees, which will guarantee more water when the thaw comes, and that forecasts indicate that this spring will be rainy. Yes, we can breathe a sigh of relief, but what we can't do is sleep, thinking that the problem is already solved and we've emerged unscathed.