6th March S&S meeting summary

The main aim of the 6^th March meeting was to volunteer for some of the projects. So here are the projects, the people involved and the topics discussed (given that some of you were not there on this meeting, the doors are not closed …Don’t hesitate to join any of these…).

- Communication : Christoforos, Vincent, …

Get a contact with the Ellipse magazine (Maruxa Martinez : mmartinez@prbb.org)

…to get some space to be able to announce the different events we will set up.

…to present our S&S group, projects, expectations (I think Tobias (?) raised this idea a few weeks ago)

- Scientific cafés : Todos !!

…The website sent by Michela (http://cafescientifique.org/index.html) should learn us a lot about what exists, what are the different strategies, the different topics…

…the place ? It has been proposed to keep the Mantra (for the moment of “forever”) and investigate for possible places near Placa Universitad.

…Evreryone should be involved in this project, but it has been proposed (although I’m not sure at all it’s consensual…give me your feedbacks…) that a small group of people get dedicated to one specific subject to contact speakers and prepare all the documents they can propose to the rest of the group.

Subjects :

- Genetically Modified Food/Organism : Isabel proposed a speaker she already contacted (who prefers short presentation followed by participative debate, rather than a dual “for” versus “against”debate)

- Neurosciences (proposed speaker : Mara Dierssen) : to be discussed with Mara for a next meeting.

- Philosophy/BioEthics : (volunteers : RoserZ, Vincent)…contacts through Solenn and Isabel.

- Open Door : RoserP, Sylvain, Roni, Marija, Antoine

…Contact the CMIMA (via Elisabeth…see Solenn) to learn from their experience of such activities on the Placa Darwin (down the PRBB building).

…See what is already proposed by the PRBB/CRG, and how proposed ideas can be implemented.

- Sense about science :

Roni contacted her former association in UK to ask if translation in Spanish was possible.

- Movie : Isabel, Solenn, Vincent (?)

- Interviews series : Tobias, Uli (proposed), Vincent (?), Christoforos (cf mail)

Concerning these two later projects, a question was raised about the possibility to get benefit of the new PRBB TV to diffuse the images….

About the fundings,

Gloria and Bruna advised us to group all the fully described projects in one single big “Science&Society funding request”.

About the next meetings,
- Thursday, 13^th March, 21 P.M, at the Mantra ( www.myspace.com/barmantra ; C/salva 21 poble sec). For this meeting, every subgroup (/ project) should write a one page on the proposed project.
- Thursday, 20^th March : break (too close to Eastern)
- Thursday, 27^th March : 13:30, Sala Altell Sud, with the presence of :

Eleonor Thompson (Programme Coordinator, Continuing Professional Development, interested in our activities (notably cafes scientificos)
Juan Valcarcel : to hear opinions of a PI interested on our project, who was involved in the S&S committee in EMBL…
Mara Dierssen : to discuss about the Scientific Coffee on Neuroscience.

(Marija will send them an “invitation” with a brief explanation of our projects.)

Here it is,

See you,

antoine