Science Meets Society has its own website!!

We had been planning it for a while, but we are all quite busy in our "day jobs", so it was a matter of having time, energy and even more time to be able to set up something worthwile.

Thanks to Antonios, we finally have the one and only SmS website, in English, Spanish and Catalan!

We have such a mixture of nationalities among SmS members, volunteers and audience that the 3 language approach seems a great idea, don't you think?

Our idea was to have a proper website we could address people to, when interested in our activities, besides this blog which is a mixture of info for SmS members, volunteers AND our audience.

I love the clean look of the web and the choice of main topics displayed and linked on every page. Have a look at it and tell us what you think!

So thanks, Antonios, and congrats on the site!!

New ideas for 2010!

After the meeting on December 21st, new ideas came up for activities to carry out during 2010.

It is important to continue with initiatives that have worked out really well, although they suppose a great deal of work and we shall need new volunteers to help us and perhaps take over the organizing part. These are the cases of the Scientific Cafes, the Open Day or the Creative Writing Contest.

But there are also plans on setting up a new contest, related to art and science experiences, and creating an open source video game about the cell. As to communication, there is a group of people interested in preparing and running a multilingual blog with scientific news in Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese and English. There is also a suggestion to participate in the science week in Geneve.

As you know, the nature of our work at the PRBB often forces us to travel for congresses, for a few months in another institution or even change institutions once we finish our project / contract / internship... So some of those who started Science meets Society are now either working in other, more time-consuming positions or projects, are spending a lot of time away from Barcelona or aren't even working here any more. This is why we really need "new blood" among us, to help, organize, suggest new ideas and funding, write texts for us when we need something on your speciality, give support every now and then...

There are many ways you can contribute, as long as you want to!

SmS meeting: SmS 2010 proposals

It's time to think in what the SmS community wants to do during 2010!

Thus, Roser Pinyol proposes to meet on Monday 21st of December at 15:00 in the Seminar Room 2 (Room 470).

We need motivated people to push forward this fantastic initiative!

If you are interested, come!!

If you are interested but you can not come on Monday, leave a comment and we will keep you informed about the SmS 2010 proposals. We will also post a brief on what has been decided during this meeting

Spanish population is becoming more interested in Science

According to the IV Encuesta Nacional de Percepción Social de la Ciencia y la Tecnología 2008 survey cited in this article at El País, Spanish population is becoming more itnerested in science, compared to the survey carried out in 2006. This is great news for all the groups working on disseminating Science in Society.

According to this survey, youngsters between 15 and 24 years of age are the most interested in Science and technology, Catalonia being the autonomous community with the highest rate of interest in these subjects.

The people interviewed in this occasion think that TV, press and radio don't dedicate enough time to talk about science, so probably this is the reason why the various scientific activities open to general public tend to have such a good acceptance. You shall find more information on the results of this survey at the website of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology, FECYT, where they have published the resuts and have downloadable PDFs with extra info.

I hope this shall give us even more energy to work on the next series of Scientific Cafes and on the Open Day, wich are already being organized!

Congrats to everyone ;-)

We've finally got a logo!

After the poll on which was our favourite logo, we finally have a winner:

Thanks to all of you who voted at the poll!

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¿Quiénes somos?

Science Meets Society (SmS) se originó como un grupo de estudiantes de doctorado e investigadores post-doctorado de CRG (Centre de Regulacio Genomica) y fue creciendo hasta decidir la ampliación como un proyecto en el que participan investigadores y trabajadores en general de varias instituciones dentro del PRBB (Parc de Recerca Biomedica de Barcelona).

Nuestra meta es combinar la vida social con la actividad científica y promover la comunicación y divulgación de la ciencia. En este sentido, SmS apoya iniciativas de miembros del PRBB motivados para compartir sus ideas y llevar a cabo proyectos relacionados con la comunicación científica y la percepción de la ciencia en la sociedad.

Hasta ahora nuestra acción principal ha sido la realización de tres Cafés Científicos de gran éxito. Como plan inmediato, en estos momentos estamos ultimando los preparativos para la Jornada de Puertas Abiertas, y estamos organizando de un concurso de escritura creativa, una serie de cortometrajes documentales y otro gran evento para celebrar el año de Charles Darwin , previsto para febrero del 2009.

Science Meets Society cuenta para llevar a cabo la jornada de puertas abiertas con más de 80 voluntarios externos, provenientes de las diversas instituciones dentro del PRBB.

Who is SmS?

Science Meets Society (SmS) started off as a group of PhD students and postdoctoral researchers at the CRG (Center for Genomic Regulation) and grew until it was decided to extend it as a global project involving researchers and workers in general from several institutions within PRBB (Parc de Recerca Biomedica de Barcelona).

Our goal is to combine social life with scientific endeavour and to promote science communication and dissemination. In this sense, SMS supports initiatives of motivated members of the PRBB to pursue their ideas and carry out projects related to science communication and the perception of science in society.

So far our main action has been the implementation of three highly successful Scientific Cafes. As immediate plans, we are currently finalizing preparations for the Open Day, and we are organizing a creative writing contest, a series of short documentaries and other major event to celebrate the year of Charles Darwin, in February, 2009.

Science Meets Society has so far over 80 external volunteers to help us carry out the Open Day. These volunteers are all workers at the many centers and institutions in the PRBB.

PRBB Open Day proposal

Here you will find the proposal for the PRBB Open Day, we presented to the PRBB Communication Departments at the meeting from the 17.07.2008.

PRBB Open Day Proposal (pdf)

For details concerning the meeting contact: Antoine (antoine.graindorge@crg.es), Marija (marija.mihailovic@crg.es) or Roni (roni.wright@crg.es).

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