New edition of the Live Research Fair
From 8 to 11 April, within the 13th edition of the Live Research Fair, researchers from different research centres in Catalonia are moving part of their laboratory to CosmoCaixa Barcelona in order to invite citizens to participate in their projects and solve puzzles following scientific methodology. The fair, organized annually by the Barcelona Science Park (PCB) within the program Research in Society, aims at bringing society closer to science and promoting scientific vocations among young people. This year, the activity is supported by Obra Social la Caixa and the Barcelona City Council.
From 8 to 11 April, within the 13th edition of the Live Research Fair, researchers from different research centres in Catalonia are moving part of their laboratory to CosmoCaixa Barcelona in order to invite citizens to participate in their projects and solve puzzles following scientific methodology. The fair, organized annually by the Barcelona Science Park (PCB) within the program Research in Society, aims at bringing society closer to science and promoting scientific vocations among young people. This year, the activity is supported by Obra Social la Caixa and the Barcelona City Council.
On 9 April, at midday, the vice-rector for Science Policiy of the UB, Enric I. Canela, visits the Fair, accompanied by Montserrat Vendrell, director general of the PCB; Enric Banda, director of the Science and Environment Department of Obra Social la Caixa, and Lluís Noguera, director of CosmoCaixa.
This year, the fair offers the workshop “Tots som mutants” that brings students closer to the research developed by experts in the Department of Genetics and the Institute of Biomedicine of the UB (IBUB) to study inherited disorders. Moreover, the fair includes interesting activities such as exploring in real time what happens around the underwater station OBSEA; discovering what and how Iberians fed; decoding the key to online translation engines; measuring greenhouse effect gases; cracking the encryption system of information from the International Space Station; seeing how the neurons of a zebra fish embryo are generated, or finding out what compounds crystalize in the shape of a flower, sphere or hedgehog.
Like in previous editions, the three winners of the programme Recerca a Secundària (Research at secondary education) —addressed to upper secondary students who develop a research project supervised by a researcher from PCB— explain their projects at one of the stands of the Fair.