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Descobreix la recerca! is a project designed so that senior primary students can expand their knowledge about basic concepts such as cells or genes.
 18.09.2015

Registration starts for the 2015-2016 ‘Recerca en Societat’ program at the Barcelona Science Parc

This upcoming 8 October, the Barcelona Science Park (PCB) opens the enrollment period to participate in the experimental workshops 'Fes recerca!' (Do Research!) and 'Descobreix la recerca!' (Discover Research!), which gives the start to the 15th edition of 'Recerca in Societat' (Research in Society). This proposal of PCB to bring science to the public and encourage vocations among young people includes over 80 activities, involving annually about 5,000 people, including the 'Fira Recerca en directe' (Live Research Fair), which will take place during the month April at CosmoCaixa Barcelona.

 

‘Descobreix la recerca!’ project is aimed at graduate students in senior primary school and offers two alternative proposals: ‘Discover Biomedical Research’ and ‘Discover Physics and Chemistry Research”. “Both activities are supervised by instructors and researchers, and have been especially designed so that young students can carry out experiments following scientific methods and simultaneously playfully expand knowledge about basic concepts, such as cells, genes, atmospheric pressure or chemical reactions.

The workshops end with an interactive guided tour of the different laboratories at PCB that completes the dynamic activities performed during the workshops and allows students to get to know the day-to-day reality of a laboratory and ask researchers questions about everything that awakens their curiosity. 

Fes recerca! is an initiative aimed at secondary school students and offers nearly 50 workshops during the school year so that students can participate in experiments related to research projects  developed at the PCB with the same tools and materials that scientists normally used in their work.

Seven different proposals allow adolescents to create a new drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease using peptides and proteins; to understand all the stages of developing a new drug for Parkinson; or to find out spots why the spots on leopards, the spirals of seashells or bacterial cultures can be explained with the same mathematical model, among other activities.

‘Descobreix la recerca!’ and Fes recerca! are supported by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and the Institute of Culture of Barcelona (ICUB) of the Barcelona City Council. The activities are carried out in collaboration with researchers from the University of Barcelona (UB), the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and the Spanish National Research Council  (CSIC).

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