Science Week celebrates its thirtieth anniversary, having spent three many years disseminating scientific research and knowledge in Catalonia. Over 1.5 million individuals have loved some 10,500 science-related actions for all audiences. The thirtieth version of Science Week (SC’25), organized by the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation (FCRI) with the assist of the Department of Research and Universities of the Government of Catalonia, will characteristic greater than 380 talks, guided excursions, routes, exhibitions, workshops, conferences, and different actions till Sunday, November 16. The central theme of SC’25, which is supported by BBVA, Amgen, and the “la Caixa” Foundation, shall be quantum expertise, aiming to deliver the significance of quantum science and its purposes nearer to the general public. This election commemorates the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ 2025), promoted by the United Nations. The thematic focus will not be unique, because the Week maintains its multifaceted, thematically numerous philosophy, one of its distinctive options for the previous three many years. The full program of actions is offered at [website address missing]. Science Week websiteThe SC’25 mobilizes, in Catalonia, a couple of hundred establishments and entities in the sphere of research and science outreach, together with universities, research facilities, main infrastructure initiatives, academies, faculties, scientific associations, libraries, museums, and corporations.
We have to deepen the dissemination of scientific research with initiatives aimed particularly at younger individuals ”
According to the Minister of Research and Universities, Núria Montserrat Pulido, the Week “is one of the prime examples of the Catalan research and innovation system’s repeated commitment to making research results increasingly accessible through engaging, understandable, and motivating communication.” She emphasised that “we must further disseminate research with initiatives specifically aimed at young people, as this Week does, to stimulate the scientific vocations that should nourish our research centers and universities.”
The Week has develop into a benchmark as a communication area, bringing research to the whole territory ”
For his half, the Director General of the FCRI, Miquel Gómez Clares, explains that Science Week “has become a benchmark as a space for communication between society and the academic world and for the dissemination of quality science on a European scale, bringing research to the entire territory, from small towns to major cities.”
Science Day in Schools
On November eleventh, the twenty first version of Science in Schools Day, a real traditional of the Catalan Science Foundation (FCRI), will happen, organized by the FCRI with the assist of the Government of Catalonia. This occasion will embody three classes devoted to economics, AI, and expertise, introduced in a live-streamed format from the FCRI headquarters in Barcelona. The economics session shall be led by Albert Sant, Head of Talent and Culture at BBVA Catalunya. The synthetic intelligence session shall be led by Víctor Gómez, Head of Operations in Catalonia at BBVA. And Antonio Rubio, Professor Emeritus of Engineering on the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), will lead the expertise session.
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The collaborating college students, from third and 4th 12 months of ESO (Compulsory Secondary Education) and 1st 12 months of Bachillerato (Upper Secondary Education), have beforehand labored on the chosen topics by means of movies in which scientists themselves introduced them with a scientific problem to resolve in class.
More actions associated to SC’25
On Thursday, November 13, the FCRI will current in Tremp, in Pallars Jussà, The Power of Water, a tour of landscapes and amenities of the Pyrenees out there in the Scientific Tourism portal which showcases the position of this ingredient as a pure useful resource and its transformation into power and a driver of improvement. The route traverses seven pure websites and hydroelectric energy vegetation in the Lleida Pyrenees, combining nature, engineering, and historical past in a sustainable scientific tourism providing for varsity teams and households with youngsters.
Furthermore, the University of Alicante (UA) campus in San Vicente del Raspeig will host the ultimate of the seventh version of the Science Club Monologue Competition on Friday, November 21, between 12 and 2 pm. The competitors is collectively organized by the FCRI and the Xarxa V monologuistas (Network of Comedians). The initiative is supported by BBVA, the Institut d’Estudis Catalans, and Casio Educació. The competitors goals to advertise the communication of science in Catalan in a concise and partaking manner by means of three-minute humorous monologues on scientific matters, carried out by the finalist college students and scientists.