October 1: Open Day'11!!!

Tomorrow!! Mañana!! Demà!!

 Un año más, Science Meets Society abre las puertas del PRBB a una jornada de talleres, visitas, charlas y fiesta de la ciencia!

Este grupo de voluntarios, en colaboración con el Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona y las instituciones que alberga, lleva cuatro años promocionando la ciencia entre adultos y niños. Entre 100 y 150 investigadores y personal de los centros de investigación del PRBB se ofrecen como voluntarios para hacer posible el Open Day. El programa de este año es el siguiente:

Punto de información

En la plaza Darwin habrá un punto de información sobre las actividades del día y sobre el trabajo que se hace en el PRBB. A partir de las 10:00h se harán las inscripciones a las visitas guiadas.

Talleres y experimentos

En las carpas instaladas en la Plaça Darwin podréis participar en experimentos preparados especialmente para a la Jornada de Puertas Abiertas:

• Construye ADN con "chuches"!
• Mira por el microscopio
• Extrae tu propio ADN
• Pulseras con código genético
• La leche mágica
• La Prevención en el laboratorio
• Cálculo del riesgo cardiovascular
• Experimentos para hacer en casa

Edificio PRBB

Visitas guiadas durante todo el día

Síguenos a través de los pasillos y laboratorios, de la mano de los investigadores del PRBB que te mostrarán y te explicarán cuál es su trabajo. Será necesaria inscripción, por orden de llegada el mismo día 1, en el punto de información.

Video room

La zona Chill Out de la ciencia! Relájate y disfruta de documentales para todas las edades, seleccionados por los jóvenes científicos del PRBB.

Rincón del lector

Disfruta de un espacio de lectura con libros de ciencia para todas las edades, cedidos por la Biblioteca Sagrada Família.

Pati interior del PRBB

10:30 - 12:30 i 15:00 - 17:00  L'àgora de la ciència

Descubre la ciencia de la mano de 4 ilustres investigadores y juega a descubrir las calles con más “química” de Barcelona.

11:00 y 16:00 La química del teatre

Representación teatral del grupo de teatro PeRaBaBaus.

12:30 y 18:30 Quim i Ka

Dani Jiménez ofrece un espectáculo sorprendente donde los experimentos químicos son los protagonistas.

13:00 y 17h Taller de magia a cargo de Carmen Hernández 

13:00 III Premi El·lipse de divulgació científica

El tema  de este año ha sido la biologia de la memoria: obra escrita y obra gráfica. Entrega de premis de esta tercera edición.

17:00 Café científico: ¿Porqué envejecemos? Una visión radical.

Más información en la web del Open Day.

Protocolos de los experimentos que se realizan en los talleres
Se pueden descargar para hacerlos en casa o en vuestras escuelas desde aquí:

Protocolos de experimentos en castellano o catalá


Experiment protocols in English

Protocolos de los experimentos para hacer en casa

Experiments per fer a casa - Català


Experiments to do at home - English

Open Day 2011: Volunteering for what? · Voluntaris per a què?

The Open Day is approaching and we need you to help make it true... but how can you help?

• Information office at the Darwin square: Helping with registrations for the guided visits and informing the public about the different activities.
• Experiments at the Charles Darwin square: You will learn some very easy experiments beforehand and help the visitors do them: DNA isolation, magic milk...
• A station on the guided visits: You can explain your lab or one of the facilities of the park.
• Guided Visits: You can be one of the two guides of a group of 20 visitors, and accompany them along the defined route.
• Volunteers’ reception: You need to receive the volunteers as they arrive and give them the “volunteer kit” (water, food tickets, T-shirts...) and help organizing them.
• General organization: We need people who can help with any of several things: giving support to a specific group of volunteers, establishing shifts for lunch, helping visitors with mobility issues who need lifts, organizing the lines for entering the building, introducing the different shows and activities, and a many other small and big things which appear as we go.
• Languages: The official language of the Open Day is Catalan, but It is not necessary to speak Catalan or Spanish for a variety of tasks.

Register here

S'apropa l'Open Day '11 i et necessitem per fer-ho possible... però com pots ajudar?

• Caseta d’informació a la plaça Charles Darwin: Fent inscripcions per a les visites guiades i informant al públic de les activitats.
• Experiments a la Plaça Charles Darwin: Aprendràs uns quants experiments senzills i els faràs amb els nens: ADN amb xuxes, llet màgica...
• Estació en el recorregut de les visites guiades: explicant el teu labo o una instal.lació del parc
• Visites guiades: pots fer de guia de les visites guiades acompanyant grups de 20 visitants per les diferents instal.lacions en recorreguts fixats.
• Acollida voluntaris: cal rebre als voluntari que vagin arribant i facilitar-los el “kit del voluntari” (aigua, tiquets menjars, samarreta...). També s’han d’anar equilibrant els diferents espais segons els voluntaris que hi hagi.
• Organització general: es necessita gent que pugui ajudar en coses diverses, reforçar un grup de voluntaris, establint torns per menjar, atendre els visitants amb problemes de mobilitat que necessiten ascensors, organitzar les cues d’entrada a l’edifici, donar pas als diferents espectacles i activitats, i un llarg etc. de petites i grans coses que van sortint.
• Rotació de tasques: Intentarem que ningú estigui més de dues hores seguides en el mateix lloc i fent el mateix, a no ser que ho demaneu expressament.  

Inscripcions aquí 

 

 

 

Open Day 2011

Just a short update so you know that

• It's hot, people are on holiday, but we'll be back, and
• We are already working on this year's Open Day!

So don't fear the recession has got rid of Science meets Society,  we'll be back after summer!

Keep an eye out for further news on the OD'11 ;^)

Scientific Cafe: the immune system

We are holding a new scientific cafe next week, this time on the Immune System. Once again, it shall be at the Carmelitas Restaurant.

The immune system: when is it protecting us and when is it attacking? is the motto for this new session. Questions we are preparing are such as:

• What are allergies?
• What is immunotherapy?
• Should we get vaccinated against everything?
• What are autoimmune diseases? How and why do they appear?

Dr. Miguel López-Botet, Director of the IMIM (Hospital del Mar Research Institute), Dr. Dolores Jaraquemada, from the Immunology unit at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, and Dr. Manuel Juan, from the Immunology Service at the Hospital Clinic de Barcelona shall share with us their views and discuss with the audience all these subjects.

• When? Thursday, April 14th, 19:00 - 20:30h 

• Where? Carmelitas Restaurant, Doctor Dou 1, 08001 Barcelona

• Free admission - Please arrive on time 

Scientific Cafe: Are you looking after your heart?

After the winter break, we are back with a new cafe at a new location: this season the restaurant Carmelitas (C/Doctor Dou, 1) is collaborating with Science Meets Society by hosting the next Scientific Cafes.

• How can we detect Cardiovascular Risk?
• Do cardiovascular illnesses have a genetic background?
• How does smoking, your diet or your environment affect your heart?

Dr. Jaume Marrugat, Director of the Cardiovascular and Inflammatory Processes Program at IMIM, Dr. Maribel Covas, coordinator of IMIM's Group of Cardiovascular Risk and Nutrition, and Dr. Teresa Padron, researcher at the Proteomics and Cardiovascular Disease Markers  Group at the Catalan Institut of Cardiovascular Sciences (ICCC) shall share with us their views and discuss with the audience all these subjects.

• When? Tuesday, February 8th, 19:00 - 20:30h 

• Where? Carmelitas Restaurant, Doctor Dou 1, 08001 Barcelona

• Free admission - Please arrive on time 

See you in January · Nos vemos en enero · Fins gener

Due to problems with dates and our personal work needs, we shall leave the next Scientific Cafe 'till January.

See you in January!

Debido a problemas de fechas y nuestra carga de trabajo actual hemos decidido postponer nuestro próximo Café Científico hasta enero 2011.

¡Nos vemos en enero! 

A causa de problemes de dates i la nostra càrrega de feina hem decidit postposar el proper Cafè Científic  fins al gener.

Ens veiem al gener!

2010 Open Day Scientific Cafe: All equal, all different

During the Open Day we had a really interesting Scientific Cafe, adressing the general topic of this year's celebration: All equal, all different. Jaume Bertrandpetit, Ricard Albalat and Roberto Elosua led a really participative session, closing a really successful Open Day.

All equal, all different
How has the genome of Homo sapiens evolved throughout history?
How have the different human populations been generated?
Is it possible to create a personalized medicine based on diversity between populations and individuals?
Environmental conditions interact with different genomes. How does this affect us?

Tots iguals, tots diferents
Com ha evolucionat el genoma de l’homo sapiens all llarg de la història?
Com s’ha generat les diferents poblacions humanes?
És possible una medicina personalitzada en base a la diversitat entre poblacions i individus?
Les condicions ambientals intervenen en els diferents genomes. Com ens afecta això?

What a great Open Day!

Once again, we finally made it!

It was a lot of hard work, but once again the volunteers got down to business, proving they'd done their homework to make things flow, and the visitors were really happy with the whole experience!

The collaboration with Hangar made possible two interactive installations and the brilliant virtual reality game, the books loaned by Sagrada familia library made it possible to create a reading area for kids and adults, where PeReBabaus enacted a couple of stories, and a sponsorship on the sweets made it possible to use 300 kgs of sweets this time!

But all this would have been impossible without the 182 people who turned up on Saturday, kind of on time and ready to make people really enjoy their visit to the PRBB. All the planning beforehand and all the work done during months would be useless if we didn't have the support of the Open Day volunteers, and we really want to thank you!

It was interesting to see how we had some "outsiders" among the volunteers -some relatives of PRBB-ers, but some are just SmS fans, who wanted to help out and join us in our work to promote science! I don't know if you realized, but the three girls at the Reading Area in the morning were all SmS supporters, and a few more were distributed among visits and experiments. We also got a few other visitors asking if they could help somehow in a future occasion... It seems like things are working well ;-)

It was also obvious that we had more youngsters and teens interested in what we were doing. I have heard from a few Science teachers at high schools prompting their students to come along and write a piece on our Open Day, adding marks to their next exam!

Here are some estimates made by the PRBB Communication team:

And now, it's time to comment on what was great and what could be improved at our meeting on Wednesday, and celebrate our great team work on the lunch party on Thursday!

PS: If you have any good photos of the Open Day, share a link or get in touch so we can show them here! I'll start uploading some next week ;-)

Everything's ready for today!

Volunteers have been trained, installations installed (hehe) and tested, tables are ready to go to the square, electric needs are being seen to...

Curious about what it all looks like the afternoon before the Open Day ;-)

Our banner overlooking Darwin Square reminds us what we're up to

Artistic installation based on Microarrays

Marking the area for the interactive sound installation

There's still some more flyers to hand out, let's get a move on!

Meeting points for visits are marked.  Will people actually queue?

The reading - chill out area is almost ready... Where are the books?

The Open Day starts at 10, but volunteers will be there from 8 in the morning to get the last minute stuff ready -see you there?

Remember:

What?  Science Meets Society's PRBB Open Day
Where? Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona, PRBB.
             Doctor Aiguader, 88 and Charles Darwin Square
             (next to Hospital del Mar)
When? Saturday, October 2nd 2010. 10 - 19:00h
How much? For free! Plus cheap bar service all day long!

October 2nd: Science Meets Society's THIRD PRBB Open Day!!!

Open Day poster

PRBB Open Day 2010: The same and Different

Science Meets Society, together with Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona and all its institutions, invite you once again to spend the first Saturday in October visiting labs, testing your skills at the experiment area, relaxing at the videoroom or reading a bit, chatting with researchers at the scientific cafe or throughout the whole day...

Photos of the first Open Day, 2008

This year we have also an exciting collaboration with the artist collective Hangar, with three interactive activities where science and art get together to surprise you ;-)

 Programme (also available here)

What?  Science Meets Society's PRBB Open Day
Where? Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona, PRBB.
            Doctor Aiguader, 88 and Charles Darwin Square
            (next to Hospital del Mar)
When? Saturday, October 2nd 2010. 10 - 19:00h
How much? For free! Plus cheap bar service all day long!