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As in previous years, the URJC joins the largest scientific dissemination event to value the work carried out by its research community and bring society closer to its daily work in laboratories and work spaces.
La XXIII edition of the Madrid Science and Innovation Week will be celebrated this year 6 19 of the November. This event is promoted by the Community of Madrid through the madri+d Knowledge Foundation.
The Rey Juan Carlos University participates in this edition with a extensive program made up of 189 activities free of charge with the aim of promoting citizen participation in the scientific process and also giving visibility to social sciences and humanities studies. The extensive offering of this edition is aimed at audiences of diverse profiles, from primary and secondary students to university students and specialized audiences. However, for the vast majority of activities it will not be necessary to have prior scientific knowledge, and they will be accessible to the general public.
This year, most of the activities will be held in person on the different campuses and university sites, although conferences and workshops will continue to be offered online. The scientific and social interest of the program will cover various areas of knowledge within the branches of Health Sciences, Experimental Sciences, Social and Legal Sciences, Humanities and Art, Engineering or Architecture. “The URJC continues to increase the number of activities in each edition, now approaching 200. We want to bring science to society, and I think we are achieving it. The growing interest of URJC scientists and researchers in transferring their knowledge to all audiences in an entertaining and participatory way is increasingly perceived,” highlights Carmen García Galera, academic director of the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit.
The participation of the URJC in Science and Innovation Week is coordinated by the Vice-Rectorate for Research, Innovation and Transfer, 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.
The Tooth Fairy Tooth Collection Campaign is back
During the celebration of the Week of Science and Innovation, the URJC joins the 10th Ratón Pérez 2023 Tooth Collection Campaign, promoted by the National Research Center on Human Evolution (CENIEH). On November 8, 9, 15 and 16, from 15:30 p.m. to 19:30 p.m., dental specimens can be donated in the lobby of the University Clinic of the Alcorcón Campus so that they become part of the Perez Mouse Collection which will allow important comparative studies to be carried out in the paleoanthropological, dental and forensic fields.
The donors will receive a gift, a "Pérez Mouse assistant" diploma and tickets to visit the Pérez Mouse House-Museum in Madrid.
The CENIEH organized the first tooth collection campaign in Burgos in 2014 and since then ten campaigns have been carried out. This is a citizen science project coordinated between its Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit and the CENIEH Dental Anthropology Group, in order to solve the difficulty of obtaining deciduous teeth for research and involving society in them. .