1) Workshops and Courses at the PRBB:
Elinor is organizing several Workshops (WS) aimed to educate scientist and non-scientist from the PRBB in issues related to science but which are not directly science. Some of them are listed below:
- Communication WS for PhD students and young Post Docs.
- Public engagement WS. For the moment it is just an idea planned for the end of the year. It would be like a symposium divided in two days, a first day common for everyone and a second day were people would split into groups (were they will be able to learn how science can be spread in a radio program, in a documentary, etc. )
- Management training WS for Group Leaders and Senior Post Docs.
An additional idea that Elinor presented was a “Responsibilities of scientists towards society” Course (which would include ethics, bioethics, ...). This is, right now, still out of the Education Program.
Isabel suggested that these workshops could be done once per week in the afternoon during a short period of time instead of planning them for two full days.
2) Lectures at the PRBB:
Elinor also advertised the Lecture that Harold Kroto (Chemistry Nobel Price for the discovery of the fulleren structure). For additional information, see the links sent by Michela.
She also informed us about the free breakfast that the PRBB will offer us once a month. This will be used to present programs and similar stuff run at the PRBB. If we are interested, we could get a slot there to present our projects.
3) We next moved to discuss common issues that may involve the PRBB and the CRG:
a) Science and Society CRG « PRBB:
Maruxa will send an e-mail to the communication department of each of the institutes that are located in the PRBB announcing our next meeting (Thursday 03.04.2008). Additionally posters will be hang on the corridors and an ad will be posted on the PRBB news e-mail that is sent to everyone the Fridays.
Elinor also offered us the possibility to link our web page and the PRBB web page.
b) Cafes Científicos:
Mara Diersen will participate in the first Cafe Científico (beginning of May). The topic will be “The brain in love”. Michela will ask Mara which other two speakers could be invited to the Cafe.
In June we will have the Cafe Científico of “Transgenic food” and then in July we will have the “Bioethics” one. Isabel will take care of the first one and Roser (Z) and Vincent will take care of the second one.
In two weeks we should have the name of the invited speakers, a date for the Cafe and Abstracts to start preparing the flyers and so on.
Elinor mentioned the convenience of contacting Gemma Revuelta (she works half in the “UPF” and half in the “Ajuntament”). Gemma is involved in a serial of Cafes Científicos that are currently running in Barcelona. Roser mentioned that these Cafes were running at least till the end of 2007.
c) Documentary project:
Solenn and Isabel briefly explained the aims of this project.
Elinor mentioned that in the IMIM web page there is a short documentary already.
From the discussion it came out the idea that this project could also be coordinated with the Communication Workshop.
d) Open Day project:
The Open Day people (Marija, Roni, Sylvain, Antoine and Roser (P)) also briefly described the project. It seems that there is nothing planned from the PRBB that could overlap with this idea. We agreed in that we need to know if the other institutes are interested in joining our open day before doing next step.
All communication departments from the PRBB institutes meet once a month. Maruxa offered us the possibility to join them once to explain the open day project in more detail.
e) Economic issues:
If people from other institutes are interested in joining our activities, they should also look for founding. This issue should be made clear in the next meeting. The PRBB does not have any special budget to finance such events but might have money for very concrete activities or allow us to use the “auditori” for free.
Isabel proposed to Maruxa that the PRBB should try to apply for grants in order to co-finance activities like the ones we are proposing.
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