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The Science and Innovation Week is the largest scientific outreach and citizen participation event held in the Community of Madrid. With the aim of actively involving citizens in science, technology and innovation, in addition to promoting scientific vocations among the youngest, the Rey Juan Carlos University has joined this great outreach event organized by the Ministry of Universities, Science and Innovation of the Community of Madrid, through the Foundation for Knowledge madri+d.
In this twenty-first edition, Science Week has hosted a total of 128 activities at the URJC, attended by 3.000 people. In this way, from November 1 to 14, the University has become one of the epicenters of the largest scientific dissemination event in the Community of Madrid to recognize and vindicate the research work carried out by the scientific community, as well as to bring this I work for citizenship. Especially, after a pandemic that has highlighted the importance of science in our society. "The attention that citizens are paying to Science in this time of pandemic is also reflected in their participation in the activities of Science Week," says Carmen García Galera, academic director of the Scientific Culture Unit and the Innovation (UCC+i) of the URJC.
Under the slogan "A science for the great challenges of humanity", in this new edition of the Science Week the activities that promote the objectives to achieve the European Green Deal have been highlighted, with the dual purpose of reducing social inequalities and fight climate change. The activities have been free of charge and, fundamentally, in face-to-face format. They have traveled different fields such as Social Sciences, Humanities, Art, Engineering or Health Sciences. So, a wide audience of tastes has been able to learn interactively in activities of all kinds.
"There has been a significant increase in the number of people of all ages who have wanted to participate in the activities organized by the URJC and their involvement in them has been more than satisfactory", highlights Carmen García Galera. In this sense, the extensive offer of this edition has made it possible to bring together audiences with very varied profiles, from primary and secondary school students to university students and specialized audiences.
Through different workshops, seminars and webinars, attendees have been able to attend activities in which they have been able to learn about waste, food, new technologies, benefits of sport for the brain, psychology, Covid-19, etc. And it is thanks to this, in short, that what has been achieved, according to the director of the UCC+i, “a great response to the more than 120 activities organized and which have exceeded the number of participants in previous editions. ”
The participation of the URJC in this event is coordinated by the Vice President for Research through the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit (UCC+i), and has the collaboration of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), under the Ministry of Science and Innovation.