{"id":102288,"date":"2022-10-03T13:17:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T11:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/?p=102288"},"modified":"2022-12-22T13:18:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T12:18:32","slug":"the-european-research-night-science-workshops-attract-more-than-2500-people-to-placa-corsini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaridigital.urv.cat\/en\/the-european-research-night-science-workshops-attract-more-than-2500-people-to-placa-corsini\/","title":{"rendered":"The European Research Night science workshops attract more than 2,500 people to Pla\u00e7a Corsini"},"content":{"rendered":"

The science workshops of the European Research Night filled the Pla\u00e7a Corsini for almost five hours. More than 2,500 people walked around the forty or so stalls that URV researchers and research institutes set up with the aim of explaining scientific concepts to the families who attended. This is the central activity of Research Night, now in its fifth consecutive year and already a benchmark for scientific communication in the city. This year it has beaten all records, both in terms of attendance and number of workshops. In addition to this activity, throughout the previous week, workshops were held at secondary schools throughout the region; on Saturday, the Antoni de Mart\u00ed i Franqu\u00e8s scientific tour of the city was sold out, and more than 50 people attended the session of micro-workshops in Reus.<\/p>\n

With the slogan “Research for change”, the workshops in Pla\u00e7a Corsini clearly explained scientific concepts from almost all disciplines: chemistry, archaeology, environment, health, art, biochemistry, engineering, psychology, history, nutrition, communication and architecture. The researchers prepared short, highly interactive workshops that attracted hundreds of children, who went from workshop to workshop in a unique opportunity to come into direct contact with the research community through these fun activities.<\/p>\n

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Discovering which animals the bones found at archaeological sites belong to, finding out which plants help to maintain the biodiversity of urban spaces, discovering works of medieval art, learning about the benefits that eating insects can bring to the organism and the planet, and identifying and differentiating microplastics are just some of the activities that captured the public’s attention. The workshops ran continuously from 4.30 p.m. to 9 p.m. on a fun and festive day with science as the main theme.<\/p>\n

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The rector of the URV, Josep Pallar\u00e8s, and the councillor for Education of Tarragona City Council, Manel Casta\u00f1o, officially opened the main event of the European Research Night, highlighting the importance of bringing science out of laboratories and offices and explaining it to society. The Rector also pointed out that the research community was motivated to make dissemination activities of this type possible and paid special tribute to the researcher Miquel Guardiola from the IPHES, who died recently and who, like every year, had planned a workshop in Pla\u00e7a Corsini. Also present were representatives of the research institutes that collaborate with the event: the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology, the Catalan Institute of Chemical Research, the Pere Virgili Institute of Health Research and the Institute of Human Palaeoecology and Social Evolution, as well as the Catalan Minister of Trade, Fairs, Markets and Consumer Affairs, D\u00eddac Nadal.<\/p>\n

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The Rector of the URV, Josep Pallar\u00e8s, during the opening of the workshop fair.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In parallel to the workshop fair, and in collaboration with the Fundaci\u00f3 La Caixa, a session of scientific micro-talks<\/a> was held at the CaixaForum<\/strong><\/a> Tarragona.<\/p>\n

Pre- and post-session activities for all audiences<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Saturday, after the main event, a session of nine informative micro-talks was held at the Xavier Amor\u00f3s Library in Reus, coordinated by the IISPV, and Tarragona organised the Antoni de Mart\u00ed i Franqu\u00e8s scientific tour of the city. Also, at the CaixaForum Tarragona, there was a research fair with activities and demonstrations<\/a>\u00a0on Saturday morning, organised by Fundaci\u00f3 La Caixa.<\/p>\n

The week before Research Night, more than twenty lectures and workshops were given in secondary schools and colleges by researchers from the URV and IPHES, which will continue this week. To complete the informative activities of Research Night, there is an exhibition on Science and Human Towers at the Central Market which has been open to the public since September.<\/p>\n

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The URV researcher Santi Castell\u00e0, during his brief lecture in Reus.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A joint project in Catalonia\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

El projecte de la Nit Europea de la Recerca \u00e9s possible gr\u00e0cies al cofinan\u00e7ament del programa de recerca i innovaci\u00f3 Horizon Europe<\/em> de la Uni\u00f3 Europea, i a la col\u00b7laboraci\u00f3 del consorci format per la Universitat Rovira i Virgili, que coordina el node de Tarragona, la Universitat de Girona (UdG), entitat coordinadora del projecte i del node de Girona<\/a>, la Universitat de Barcelona (UB) i l\u2019Institut de Salut Global de Barcelona (ISGlobal), entitats coordinadores del node de Barcelona<\/a>, la Universitat de Lleida (UdL), coordinadora del node de Lleida<\/a>, i la Universitat de Vic \u2013 Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic), coordinadora del node de Catalunya central<\/a>. L\u2019Associaci\u00f3 Catalana de Comunicaci\u00f3 Cient\u00edfica (ACCC) s\u2019encarrega de la coordinaci\u00f3 dels diferents nodes. Aquest projecte conjunt coordina investigadores i investigadors de m\u00e9s de 50 entitats cient\u00edfiques de tot Catalunya, i es fa cada any a m\u00e9s de 300 ciutats de 30 pa\u00efsos d\u2019Europa alhora.. En aquesta cinquena edici\u00f3, a m\u00e9s, s\u2019hi afegeix la Fundaci\u00f3 Jaume Bofill, que en el marc del programa Magnet<\/a>, impulsar\u00e0 15 projectes de recerca a centres educatius de prim\u00e0ria i secund\u00e0ria per tal d\u2019apropar els equips de recerca a l\u2019alumnat, fam\u00edlies i ve\u00efnats, al llarg de l\u2019any.<\/p>\n

The European Research Night has been made possible by the co-funding of the European Union’s Horizon Europe<\/em> research and innovation programme, and the collaboration of the consortium formed by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, which coordinates the Tarragona node, the University of Girona (UdG), the coordinator of the project, and the Girona<\/a> node, the University of Barcelona (UB) and the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), coordinators of the Barcelona<\/a> node, the University of Lleida (UdL), coordinator of the Lleida<\/a> node, and the University of Vic – Central University of Catalonia (UVic), coordinator of the Central Catalonia<\/a>. The Catalan Association of Scientific Communication (ACCC) is in charge of coordinating the different nodes. This joint project involves researchers from more than 50 scientific institutions from all over Catalonia, and is carried out every year in more than 300 cities in 30 countries around Europe at the same time. For this fifth edition, the Jaume Bofill Foundation has joined the event, which, as part of the Magnet programme<\/a>, will organise 15 research projects in primary and secondary schools so that research teams can come into contact with students, families and local residents over the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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