On May 30th and 31st and June 1st, the eighteenth edition of the Science Festival will feature games, experiments, workshops, shows, stories, visits and exhibitions at the Born Centre for Culture and Memory.
For the second consecutive year, the Born Center for Culture and Memory and the Plaça Comercial in the city of Barcelona will become the central spaces of the new edition of the Science Festival . On Friday, May 30, Saturday, May 31 and Sunday, June 1, the eighteenth edition of the Science Festival will program games, experiments, workshops, shows, stories, visits, exhibitions, humor and many more activities. The objective will be to bring children, middle-aged and elderly people closer to a universe of proposals to deepen their scientific and technological knowledge. Specifically, more than 160 scientific and technological dissemination activities will be promoted, spread over 28 different spaces, in which more than 120 institutions, entities and research groups with more than 300 participants will take part. Among many others, the workshop 'What do you have in your brain?' will be offered. aimed at children aged 3 to 6 years old so that they can learn about the cells that make the brain work, the 'Life and death of stars' workshop aimed at children over 6 years old so that they can learn about the different evolutionary paths that stars have, the 'Investigate the food of the past' workshop aimed at children aged 8 to 12 years old so that they can discover from small microscopic remains how the historical landscape of the city of Barcelona can be reconstructed, and the 'Quantum cryptography: the key to secure communications' workshop aimed at boys and girls over 12 years old so that they can delve into the evolution of the art of quantum cryptography.
Organized by the Barcelona City Council, the eighteenth edition of the Science Festival will involve the local scientific sector through the 'Ciutadella del Coneixement' initiative, which aims to become a future node of knowledge, research and innovation in Europe. Within this framework, on Friday 30 May, from 10 am to 12 pm, the closing ceremony of the 'Citizen Science in Schools' programme will take place. The proposal, which will not be open to the public, will involve around 200 students and teachers from educational centres. On Saturday 31 May, from 11 am to 11 pm, and on Sunday 1 June, from 11 am to 8 pm, the programme will be open to all audiences. This year, the eighteenth edition of the Science Festival will be part of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technologies and will have a new space dedicated to this discipline. In essence, the main areas will be art, science and society, physics, chemistry and astronomy, mathematics and challenges, cities and terrestrial habitats, archaeology and the past, biology and health, technology and quantum, and water and the sea.