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Irene Vega
Each new edition of the Madrid Science and Innovation Week The URJC scientific community is dedicated to organizing activities, increasing the number of proposals every year. In the nineteenth edition of this event, 104 activities have been held in which a total of 3.237 people have participated, including groups of ESO, Baccalaureate and Vocational Training students, as well as the general public. The success of attendance is a consequence of the wide range of proposals, all free and aimed at different profiles, and the 360 teachers and collaborators who have been involved this year.
The participants have been able to visit the laboratories and work spaces of the URJC scientific community and attend conferences and practical workshops on topics related to all areas of knowledge and various scientific disciplines.
The motto chosen in this edition has been 'For an inclusive Science' and the International Year of the Periodic System of the Elements and the 50th Anniversary of the arrival of man on the Moon have also been commemorated. The URJC has joined both celebrations by organizing various activities related to these two milestones.
19 years disseminating scientific activity at the URJC
La first edition of the Madrid Science Week It was held in 2001 and the URJC was one of the first institutions to commit to this initiative, which over the years has become the largest scientific outreach event in the region. Already in this initial edition, 7 activities were offered to publicize the facilities of the Technological Support Center, the teaching and research laboratories of the Móstoles, Alcorcón and Fuenlabrada campuses, as well as the language laboratories and computer rooms of the Campus of Madrid. In addition, an exhibition of advertising posters on health and hygiene and a poster contest aimed at ESO and Vocational Training students were organized, in which they had to develop current scientific and technological topics.
Throughout the following editions, the URJC has been adding proposals, offering more than 60 activities in 2010 and significantly increasing this number in the last edition of 2019, in which it has organized a total of 104.
Through this wide offer, the URJC has become one of the main referents of this event, which brings together more than 600 institutions. The scientific community of the URJC thus joins the more than 3.000 researchers from all scientific disciplines in charge of organizing the more than 1.200 free activities offered in this latest edition.
The activities of the Madrid Science and Innovation Week are coordinated at the URJC by the UCC+i, dependent on the Vice President for Research, and have the collaboration of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) and the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
