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Sevilla brings science to the public this Friday with The Night ... - In the network Granada

Introducing The Researchers' Night in Seville.Introducing

The Researchers’ Night in Seville.

More than 700 researchers

table and share conversation on Friday September 27 with nearly 10,000 citizens in what will be the most important simultaneous event in the scientific Andalusian recent years. For the second consecutive year while 350 other European cities, the eight provinces of Andalusia and Melilla host Night of the researchers, informative appointment promoted by the European Commission within the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and the Researchers’ Night, which in Andalusia funded by the Ministry of Economy, Innovation, Science and coordinates the Foundation Employment and Discover.

Night, which doubled in 2013 records last year both in participation in activities offered, was presented this morning at the Rector of the University of Seville by the Vice Chancellor for Research, Manuel García León, the institutional coordinator Andalucía, CSIC, Miguel Angel Ferrer, and Discover Foundation director, Teresa Cruz Sánchez.

total Researchers’ Night in Sevilla meet in person almost a thousand people will participate in meetings with investigators, as well as in different parallel activities included in the program organized by the University, the House of Sciences and the Andalusian Historical Heritage Institute (IAPH). The day will begin at half past seven p.m. on the House Science and at eight in the Cultural Enterprise Centre at the University of Seville (CICUS), while the IAPH 12.00 celebrates a tour of the Monastery de la Cartuja.

Specifically, CICUS courtyard in the center of the capital, will host several meetings with researchers, who will speak on behalf of scientific indicators, the creation and consumption of drama series in the era of Quality Television The dialogue between archeology and archaeometry, antioxidants food, science and literature, and also on the progress of biofuels from oils.

Simultaneously, the workshops will begin in several workshops conducted by researchers at the University of Seville and will be happening a series of activities ranging from virtual uprising exposure comedy El Corral de La Monetería of Seville, to a nocturnal visit by the Santa Cruz professor’s hand the U.S., Theodore Falcon, passing a physical participatory theater, a monologue scientist, concerts, shows that blend math with flamenco or popular newsstand. All activities also will be broadcast by the program ‘Open Classroom’ Radio Andalucía Information, that the students of the School of Communication at Seville, under the direction and presentation of Carla Woodcock and Jesus Ricca, coordination and direction of Professor Fernando teacher Second and technical assistance of José Luis Fernández.

For its part, the House of Sciences begins with five microencuentros participation by researchers from the Institute of Fat in Seville and the Institute of Plant Biochemistry and Photosynthesis. Subsequently, there will be three activities on healthy eating (a workshop on children’s fruit skewers, a play for families and ‘show cooking’). The ‘Messier Marathon’, an attempt to find in the sky many Messier objects as possible in one night at the Planetarium of the House Science and a concert by the band ‘Boundless’, which counts among its members with Gustavo Linan , CSIC scientist at the Institute of Microelectronics of Seville, close La Noche en La Casa.

The Vice Chancellor of the U.S., Manuel García León, stressed that the aim of this program is to “bring science and knowledge society, the second is that people know that what is done in research has an impact on their welfare and finally to awaken among the youngest concern and interest in science. ” García León has also added that the Centre for Research, Technology Innovation at the University of Seville (CITIUS) and Results Transfer Office (TTO) will be present in the Night “for citizens to know a little better their services and discover this other side of the university research. “

Meanwhile

the Discover Foundation director, Teresa Cruz Sánchez, stressed that “the Foundation we want to support our scientists and convey to society the importance of their work.” Cruz recalled that The Researchers’ Night is a project that is coordinated by the Foundation Discover in Andalusia for the second consecutive year and jointly involving 15 institutions in the eight provinces: the government (Ministry of Economy, Innovation, Science and Employment of the Junta de Andalucía), the Universities of Jaen, Almeria, Cadiz, Cordoba, Granada (Campus and Melilla), Huelva, Malaga and Seville, the CSIC (House Science, Zaidín Experimental Station, Institute of Astrophysics Andalusia and IESA), the IFAPA, the Andalusian Historical Heritage Institute, the Historical Botanical Garden of Malaga and the Royal Botanic Gardens of Cordoba.

In this line, the coordinator of the National Research Council (CSIC) in Andalusia and director of the House Science Museum of Sevilla, Miguel Ferrer, said that international events but acting locally as The Night of the researchers “science help you be more present in the lives of people and integrated into the culture and leisure” thereof. “Society must realize that researchers are flesh and blood people who work for the development of society, and what better way to prove that holding meetings with them,” he emphasized Ferrer, who has emphasized the CSIC has currently several programs “of science literacy in the street, in schools and in museums” to meet its goal of closer to society.

Thus, the Researchers Night seeks to emphasize the figure of the researcher in society and address the archetypal scientist who lives in his own world with meetings in which researchers share with visitors their hobbies and their work .

All citizens interested in participating in the activities of The Night can make your reservation through the web http://lanochedelosinvestigadores.fundaciondescubre.es. Social networks also play a key role in Night of the researchers. The impact of the event last year exceeded 100,000 users in Andalusia, records this year largely overcome. # ResearchersNight is the label of choice for Twitter to follow through all the news and development event next September 27.

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