After recovering from Covid, Manuel Fuertes became one of the 1,400 plasma donors currently in Aragon. “They began asking people who had had the disease because they said we had developed antibodies that remained in the plasma and could help others who were infected,” the Aragonese man recalls. Since then, he usually donates every two months, whenever the Aragon Blood and Tissue Bank asks him to.
Classes have already started and the admissions process has ended, but 13 degree programs at the University of Zaragoza still have vacancies in Zaragoza, Huesca, Teruel and La Almunia de Doña Godina.
Bianca likes mathematics, drawing and playing volleyball. She also enjoys swimming, eating and sleeping, she says with a laugh. When she thinks about the future, she imagines herself working in a café. This Saturday, she attended the Joaquín Roncal Centre in Zaragoza for a much simpler reason: “to meet people.” She is one of the girls and teenagers with disabilities taking part in My Voice Has Power, an event organised by CERMI Aragón to help them learn to defend their rights and gain autonomy in decisions affecting their own lives.
Excitement was evident this Saturday in Zaragoza's Plaza de los Sitios. Dozens of people, from young adults to older customers, queued outside number 16 to visit the city's first Las Tartas de Julita shop. The opening came with an added incentive: the first 100 customers could receive a free portion of one of the brand's popular cheesecakes.
The Catholic calendar remembers Saint Alonso de Orozco today, September 19, an Augustinian priest who devoted his life to preaching, teaching and religious service, eventually becoming a preacher at the court of Philip II.
After the rain, wind and almost autumnal conditions of recent days, Aragon faces a much calmer Saturday. No rainfall is expected in any of the three provincial capitals, and sunshine will gain ground as the day progresses, bringing stable weather for the first day of the weekend.
Some diagnoses require finding a compatible person for treatment. This is the case with certain leukemias, lymphomas and other blood disorders, for which a hematopoietic stem cell transplant can become a decisive option. In Aragón, where 254 new donors were registered with REDMO during the first months of the year, recruitment continues to grow while patients still need this resource.
Miguel Servet and Lozano Blesa University Hospitals in Zaragoza have organized various activities next week for National Sarcoma Day, highlighting a rare tumor that accounts for approximately 1% of malignant tumors in adults.
The new procedure aims to define and standardize the criteria for police actions when people with intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorder or mental health problems involving cognitive impairment give evidence or take part in police proceedings.
Aragon has reduced the average time to resolve dependency cases, from the application to the benefit decision, to 111 days, according to data updated on August 31, 2026. This figure is 191 days below the national average of 302 days. Vice President and Minister for Deregulation, Social Welfare and Family Alejandro Nolasco announced the figure on Friday during a visit to El Seminario care home in Teruel, where he was welcomed by its director, Blas Sanz.
The Spanish Association of Automobile and Truck Manufacturers (Anfac) on Friday presented an update to its "2030 Roadmap for Industrial Vehicles and Buses", warning that the current pace of heavy-duty zero-emission vehicle adoption is insufficient to meet European targets and calling for urgent measures to accelerate the transition.
The current funding model between the Government of Aragon and the University of Zaragoza will end at the start of next year. With just over three months remaining, both institutions must reach an agreement on a new deal. For now, Aragon President Jorge Azcón says they are working “loyally” and that there is “good rapport” between the Department of Education and the university.
The proposed amendment to the Royal Decree establishing minimum requirements for second-cycle preschool, primary and secondary schools “threatens the viability of Aragon’s education system.” Manuel Magdaleno, technical secretary-general of the Department of Education, Science and Universities, said the estimated economic impact of applying the changes in Aragon would amount to “more than €583 million.”
The latest Social Services Development Index (DEC) places Aragon eighth among Spain’s 17 autonomous communities, with 5.28 points out of 10 and an overall rating of medium-low. In the previous edition, the region scored 5.68 points, four tenths higher.
The long-awaited renovation of Zaragoza’s Faculty of Medicine will go to tender “in late October or early November.” This was confirmed Friday by the rector of the University of Zaragoza, Rosa Bolea, during the opening ceremony for the academic year. She explained that once the project is put out to tender, the timeline will “no longer depend” on the university.
Aragon’s surgical waiting list for more than 180 days ended August 2026 with 9,349 patients waiting over 180 days, 1,232 more than the previous month. The regional government attributes the increase to the “cumulative impact of the doctors’ strike in protest against the Health Ministry’s new Framework Statute, which led to the cancellation of more than 4,900 surgical procedures”.
University students gathered outside the Paraninfo building on Friday, shortly before the University of Zaragoza’s academic year opening ceremony, to demand the reopening of the Santa Isabel residence, which has been closed since 2021. “We find it shameful that a building equipped as a student residence has been closed for five years and that no information has been provided,” said the coordinator of Students in Defense of the University.
The Catholic calendar honors Saint Joseph of Cupertino today, September 18, a Franciscan friar whose life was marked by poverty, humility and charity toward those most in need.
Running a few meters around the schoolyard can become minutes of research against childhood leukemia. That is the proposal returning to schools across Aragón this autumn through La Vuelta al Cole, an initiative by the Unoentrecienmil Foundation whose main event will take place on October 16. Last school year, 47 schools and 15,713 students, teachers and family members took part in the region, raising €34,765.
After several days of weather more typical of autumn, Aragon will regain stability this Friday, although some effects of the change in weather will linger. Rain will disappear from Zaragoza and Huesca, while Teruel will retain only a 20% chance of precipitation in the afternoon. Skies will be mostly clear early on and will tend to clear further as the hours pass.
