One hundred twenty-five secondary teachers from across Europe participate in the 2nd course Xplore Health Blog Post

The 2nd course of Xplore Health entitled “Bringing biotechnology revolution into the classroom’, was held at the Open Lab at the Barcelona Science Park on 7, 14 and 21 November. The course was aimed secondary school teachers in Catalonia and was organized by the Public Engagement Unit of the PCB with the support of the and the collaboration of the , the of the Generalitat de Catalunya and the European School Net (EUN). On this occasion, the program was offered in parallel at the Museum of La Coruña, and through the virtual community –coordinated by the EUN– which brings together 175,000 teachers and 95,000 European schools.

The UB backs transfer by developing the Agency for Valorisation and Commercialisation of Research Results Blog Post

As a pioneering university in scientific production and knowledge transfer, the Universitat de Barcelona (UB, University of Barcelona) has set up the Agency for Valorisation and Commercialisation of Research Results (). This agency seeks to promote new strategies to coordinate and boost knowledge and technology transfer and, in particular, stimulate the creation of added value in chains of knowledge production. In this regard, AVCRI is responsible for the strategic and operative management of valorisation and commercialisation of results derived from research activities and seeks to ensure that new knowledge and technologies developed by members of the Grup UB reach society, particularly the business sector, in the form of innovation.