The programme of the 17th Science Festival is now available
The Science Festival reaches its 17th edition and this year the celebration moves to the Born Centre de Cultura i Memòria and the Plaça Comercial. The great annual appointment of citizens with research and knowledge will take place on the weekend of 7, 8 and 9 June, with a morning session for schools on Friday, daytime activities as usual on Saturday and Sunday, and a new programme for adults on Saturday night. In this edition, there will also be activities in the Martorell Exhibition Centre and in the Greenhouse of the Ciutadella Park.
In total, an intense programme has been put together with more than 150 scientific and technological dissemination activities, many of which will be held in several sessions, and which will be spread over 30 different venues. The wide range of proposals has been made possible thanks to the involvement of 120 institutions and organisations, and the more than 200 people from the field of research and dissemination who will be in charge of organising them.
The sea, water and the blue economy will have a prominent presence at this Festival, coinciding with the Cultural Regatta that will accompany the celebration of the America’s Cup in Barcelona, the commemoration of the Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) and in the context of the episode of drought linked to climate change that we are experiencing. Archaeology and other sciences that allow us to study the past also gain special relevance in the Festival, due to the fact that it is held around the emblematic site of the Born.
Likewise, climate change and artificial intelligence form part of the four main thematic axes of this edition, but at the Festival there will be proposals covering practically all fields of research, such as physics, the materials of the future, social sciences, biomedicine, the world of numbers and data, space exploration, nanotechnology or the relationship between art and science, and a long etcetera.
As always, the festival is aimed at everyone and there will be activities for all audiences and others aimed at more specific groups. There will be activities for children and families, but also for young people and adults. For example, in this edition a lot of proposals designed for young and adult audiences from 16 years of age will take place on Saturday night (from 19:00 to 23:00).
As for the formats, workshops and experiments are, as always, the most usual, but at the Festival you will find a great diversity of typologies: performances, a scientific slam, humour monologues, itineraries, guided tours, demonstrations, storytelling, reading, dance, radio interviews, installations, challenges, a new edition of the clue game Discover the enigma and a lot of other surprising formats await you in this edition.
And even more! For the first time, on Friday 7 June, the Festival will feature a conference aimed at schools that have been involved in the Citizen Science in Schools programme during the 2023-2024 academic year, with the participation of nearly 200 students, teachers and people involved in the scientific research projects carried out.
You have a whole universe of proposals at your fingertips! You can visit the website, consult the programme, filter the activities according to your interests and enjoy the 17th Science Festival to the full.
A Festival in the setting of the Ciutadella Knowledge Hub
The aim of Barcelona City Council, which is organising the Festival, is to once again hold the meeting around the city’s new scientific hub, the Ciutadella Knowledge Hub, the scientific and urban planning project that is underway to turn the Ciutadella Park and its surroundings into a node of knowledge, dissemination, research and innovation at the forefront of Europe.
The strategy of the Ciutadella Knowledge Hub, on the one hand, highlights and reinforces the existing vocation for research in the area by refurbishing different buildings in the park and adapting them to new scientific and informative uses. On the other hand, it activates new spaces to facilitate and encourage new scientific and cultural projects in addition to the existing ones. All this, with the aim of consolidating a first class scientific ecosystem and making it accessible and open to the public.