Shortfilms presented in the 3rd Comas i Solà Contest will be screened during the award ceremony
On Tuesday, June 13, at 19 h, the staff room in Josep Carner building (Faculty of Philology) will hold the award ceremony for the 3rd Comas i Solà Contest. During the event, all the short films presented in this edition will be screened, and afterwards the name of the winners will be revealed. The ceremony will be chaired by the new director of the Doctoral School of the UB, Xavier Roigé, and apart from the participants of the contest, the members of the jury will also attend the event: Estrella Montolío, vice-rector of the School; Anna Marquès, lecturer in the bachelor degree of Audiovisual Communication; Olga Giralt, representing the Audiovisual Services, and Marga Becerra, head of the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit (UCC+i) of the University of Barcelona.
On Tuesday, June 13, at 19 h, the staff room in Josep Carner building (Faculty of Philology) will hold the award ceremony for the 3rd Comas i Solà Contest. During the event, all the short films presented in this edition will be screened, and afterwards the name of the winners will be revealed. The ceremony will be chaired by the new director of the Doctoral School of the UB, Xavier Roigé, and apart from the participants of the contest, the members of the jury will also attend the event: Estrella Montolío, vice-rector of the School; Anna Marquès, lecturer in the bachelor degree of Audiovisual Communication; Olga Giralt, representing the Audiovisual Services, and Marga Becerra, head of the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit (UCC+i) of the University of Barcelona.
The 3rd Comas i Solà Contest is jointly organized by the Doctoral School and UCC+I, and it aims to bring people closer to the research carried out in the UB, using a visual and dynamic channel, as well as to give visibility to doctoral students as the research engine of the University. The jury assessed the originality of the videos, as well as their scientific rigor, the capacity of synthesis in the presented concepts and the clarity of the message so that the audiovisual pieces are understandable for a non-expertized audience, not used to scientific language.
The contest is named after the Catalan astronomer Josep Comas i Solà (1868-1937), who, since he was young, was very interested in astronomy and became a great scientific disseminator. When he was 15, he studied a meteorite that had fallen near Tarragona, and the results were published in the journal Astronomie. He outstood for his studies on asteroids -he found eleven- and developed a new research method to calculate their orbit. Apart from his scientific research on astronomy, he experimented with photography and cinema applied to astronomical observation and he developed studies on seismology. He was the director of the Fabra Observatory of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Barcelona since its creation. He also contributed to founding the Spanish Society of Astronomy and was its first president.
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