The Festival Jóvenes Realizadores fills Granada with cinema from October 18 to 24. Most screenings are free: 25 shorts from around the world, Andalusian shorts, meetings with filmmakers and a focus on Celia Rico. The special screenings mix cinema and live music.
News from October 17, 2026
The 11 stories we published that day.
La Universidad de Alicante ha investido doctor honoris causa al catedrático emérito de la Universidad de Granada Nicolás Olea Serrano, médico e investigador reconocido por sus estudios sobre los efectos de los contaminantes químicos en la salud humana.
The Official State Gazette publishes the authorization from the Ministry for the Ecological Transition to Red Eléctrica to repower the Tajo de la Encantada–Archidona–Caparacena–Huéneja–Tabernas–Litoral overhead line, which crosses the provinces of Málaga, Granada and Almería.
The project, developed in Granada and Melilla with unaccompanied foreign minors, refugees and migrants rescued at sea, has been recognised at the European Service-Learning congress held in Bamberg (Germany).
The Instituto Andaluz de Geofísica of the Universidad de Granada will analyse the earthquake on the Azuero peninsula with the 47 stations that the PASIS project installed in February 2026, before the earthquake.
The Parque de las Ciencias de Andalucía teaches the workshop «RCP: Misión Cerebro Vivo», a simulation with mannequins connected to a screen to teach cardiopulmonary resuscitation to Primary, ESO, Bachillerato and Ciclos Formativos students.
The Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública begins on October 21 a training course for doctors, nurses and social workers on addressing childhood and adolescent obesity, which will be rolled out in health centres across the eight provinces during the first half of 2027.
Students, teaching and research staff, PTGAS and graduates from the last three years can submit their projects until October 29. There are prizes of 400 euros per centre and up to 2,000 euros in the final.
The Dirección General de Movilidad y Transportes transfers to the Consorcio de Transporte Metropolitano del Área de Granada the management, control and operation of four regular bus services: Güéjar Sierra, Dílar, Quéntar and Valderrubio.
The Diputación Provincial de Granada has published the list of people who have passed the selection process to join as Operario/a in the Escala de Administración Especial, according to the resolution published in the Boletín Oficial de la Provincia on October 14.
Churriana de la Vega records two months of falling affiliation and stands at 6,644
The municipality of Churriana de la Vega closed September 2026 with 6,644 people affiliated with Social Security, 57 fewer than in August and 68 fewer than a year earlier. One in six contributors, 1,060, is self-employed.