Some links forwarded from Núria
World of Science festival in New York:
http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/
Science in Literature in Spanish
Open Day website
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Creative Writing Contest - Meeting
There's a meeting scheduled for those interested in the creative writing contest. It will take place on Monday 19th at 16:00 on the sofas of the 5th floor.
The main issues to discuss will be:
1. The topic of the stories that we want for the contest (which can range from a description of a research line in an everyday language to fictional stories with science as the background)
2. Length of the stories, languages allowed, awards, etc. Also, how restricted the contest will be: for PRBB researchers only, for members of research groups in Barcelona/Catalonia or open to members of all research groups in Spain.
3. Funding
4. Selection of an award jury
The main issues to discuss will be:
1. The topic of the stories that we want for the contest (which can range from a description of a research line in an everyday language to fictional stories with science as the background)
2. Length of the stories, languages allowed, awards, etc. Also, how restricted the contest will be: for PRBB researchers only, for members of research groups in Barcelona/Catalonia or open to members of all research groups in Spain.
3. Funding
4. Selection of an award jury
Thursday, May 8, 2008
1st Café Scientifico
Great success! Thanks a lot to the speakers, the organizers, and of course to the 130 participants for coming!
Here are a few pictures I made with my mobile, if you want more of this kind, send me a mail tobias.maier"ät"crg.es
Here are a few pictures I made with my mobile, if you want more of this kind, send me a mail tobias.maier"ät"crg.es
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
PRBB - Intervals
Check out this website: http://www.prbb.es/intervals/
Courses offered on team management, science communication, and media skills.
Courses offered on team management, science communication, and media skills.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Select your projects
In order to get more organised and not to spam the mailinglist, you should sign up to the projects you are interested in. Find the poll at:
http://www.doodle.ch/participation.html?pollId=7ixb65yexmiewkvk
The projects, as they are standing now, are:
1. The PRBB Open Day (antoine graindorge)
2. Café Scientifico (michela bertero)
3. Short Movies and Interviews (solenn patalano)
4. Creative Writing Contest (daniel aguilar)
5. Darwin Celebrations (rui faria)
If you need more information regarding the individual projects, please contact the responsible people in brackets by email (first three @crg, then one @imim and one @upf). They in turn will get back to you to announce meetings and updates of the respective projects.
http://www.doodle.ch/participation.html?pollId=7ixb65yexmiewkvk
The projects, as they are standing now, are:
1. The PRBB Open Day (antoine graindorge)
2. Café Scientifico (michela bertero)
3. Short Movies and Interviews (solenn patalano)
4. Creative Writing Contest (daniel aguilar)
5. Darwin Celebrations (rui faria)
If you need more information regarding the individual projects, please contact the responsible people in brackets by email (first three @crg, then one @imim and one @upf). They in turn will get back to you to announce meetings and updates of the respective projects.
Meeting today at 13:30
The meeting for all of us is taking place as scheduled, today Thursday 24th of April in SEM2 at 13:30
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Cafe Cientific -EXTRA- Meeting
Dear all,
a Cafe Cientific Meeting has been scheduled for next Monday, April 21st at 13.30 at the terrace of the 5th floor.
The time is getting close for the organization of the first of the series so pending issues are to be discussed regarding:
1. Logo
2. Exact dates
3. Names of speakers
4. Short summaries
5. Advertising-related issues.
a Cafe Cientific Meeting has been scheduled for next Monday, April 21st at 13.30 at the terrace of the 5th floor.
The time is getting close for the organization of the first of the series so pending issues are to be discussed regarding:
1. Logo
2. Exact dates
3. Names of speakers
4. Short summaries
5. Advertising-related issues.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Next meeting of all of us
As announced by email today, we are meeting on Thursday, April 24th at 13:30 in SEM2 (4th floor).
Topics will be:
Topics will be:
- Update on Café Scientifico
- Update and organization of Open day
- Update on Movie project
- Call for new projects to be started
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
26th of March SmS Meeting Summary
Maruxa Martínez (a member of the Communication Department of the PRBB) and Elinor Thomson (responsible for the Education Program of the PRBB) joined the meeting and explained what they are currently doing at the PRBB.
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:
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.
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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