The Science Week comes back to the UB
Sustainable energy, neuroscience and the active ageing are the main topics of the 17th Science Week in Catalonia, which will be celebrated from 16th to 25th November, and it is coordinated by the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation (FCRI). The opening ceremony takes place on Thursday, 15th November, at 11 a.m., in the central office of the Institute of Catalan Studies. Núria de Gispert, president of the Parliament of Catalonia, and Antoni Esteve, president of the FCRI, will participate in the event. In addition, the professor Steven J. Schiff, director of the Penn State Center for Neural Engineering will give a lecture about the control of convulsive crisis to reduce child infections in Africa.
Sustainable energy, neuroscience and the active ageing are the main topics of the 17th Science Week in Catalonia, which will be celebrated from 16th to 25th November, and it is coordinated by the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation (FCRI). The opening ceremony takes place on Thursday, 15th November, at 11 a.m., in the central office of the Institute of Catalan Studies. Núria de Gispert, president of the Parliament of Catalonia, and Antoni Esteve, president of the FCRI, will participate in the event. In addition, the professor Steven J. Schiff, director of the Penn State Center for Neural Engineering will give a lecture about the control of convulsive crisis to reduce child infections in Africa.
This year, Josep Barbosa, professor at the Department of Analytical Chemistry, supported by the Office of the Vice-Rector for Research of the UB, has coordinated the activities to spread scientific and technological knowledge that will be performed in different UBʼs sites.
Once again, secondary education students will be able to come closer to research activity through the exhibition “Research in universities”, a multimedia exhibition about the research made in Barcelona and in the Barcelona Science Park (PCB) that will go from one high school to another to encourage scientific spirit among students.
The activity “La química i el vi”, an initiative of the Faculty of Chemistry, together with the Enology Faculty of the Rovira i Virgili University (URV), plans again a guided tour to a cellar and a wine tasting in order to develop a cultural and scientific approach to the cycle of grape vines and wine. Within this proposal, on 20th November the facilities of Espelt Viticultors, in Vilajuïga (Alt Empordà) could be visited.
“Com i per què podem viatjar a lʼespai?” is the title of the lecture-workshop that will take place on 21st and 28th November at the Faculty of Mathematics. The activity is addressed to upper secondary students, and it will be an introduction to some basic concepts which describe planetsʼ motions and explain Kepleerʼs and Newtonʼs laws, and their implications for planetary motion.
On 22th November, at 6 p.m., the Aula Magna of the Faculty of Geology will host the conference “Sostenibilitat energètica a lʼactualitat”, by Mariano Marzo, professor at the Department of Stratigraphy, Paleontology and Marine Geosciences, and expert on energetic resources and geopolitics. The UB and the section of Earth Sciences of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona organises the lecture.
From 28th to 30th November, the Faculty of Geography and History will host an exhibition about citizensʼ mobilizations related to socio-environmental conflicts and territorial sustainability. The exhibition, which will show a cartography of socioenvironmental manifestations in Catalonia since 1972, offers morning and afternoon guided tours, a series of lectures and an expertsʼ round table.
Furthermore, within the Science Week, the PCB organizes two outreach scientific activities: an open day entitled “Come and do an express PhD!” and a series of scientific experiment workshops “Do Research!” at La Pedrera, supported by CatalunyaCaixa Foundation. Both initiatives invite participants to discover some of the experiments performed in the laboratories of the PCB and the UB.