Escolab

Escolab, the program promoted by Barcelona City Council since 2006, begins a new season in September whose basic objective is to bring the different research centers closer to schools. As the main novelty of this new academic year, the initiative, which until now was aimed at ESO, High School and training cycles, is also being extended to 5th and 6th graders.

Activities offered

All educational centers that wish can request the activities they consider through the Activities section of the Escolab website, after registration. Through the search engine you can see all those available proposals and filter them by educational level, subject or date, among other fields. In the same way, the staff of the different entities that are dedicated to research can add new proposals throughout the course (a workshop, a talk, a visit…) with the date and sessions that suit them, through the web manager.

At the end of June, the usual raffle of activities was held to distribute and award some of the activities. However, the educational centers that have not chosen can still put themselves on hold or sign up for everything that remains free.

Throughout the course, the research centers can continue proposing new activities (workshops, talks, visits…) and expanding the offer of the 2025-2026 program through the platform.

So far, for this new season, around 150 activities have been offered involving 35 research centres. And so far, 168 participating schools have arranged for one.

In the previous edition (2024-2025 academic year), Escolab carried out 126 activities distributed in 315 sessions that were enjoyed by 7.023 students from 198 educational centres. Since the start of the programme in 2006, around a hundred research organisations and groups and more than 100.000 students have participated.

The main new features

In addition to the incorporation of upper primary cycles, this 20th edition of Escolab also offers the new guide of recommendations “How to design a scientific activity for students?” aimed at research centers, which serves as a reference for designing activities.

On the other hand, in the Resources section of the website, new video reports have been added that serve as examples of the work carried out last year.

A part from that, from this year onwards, all participating research centers will also be given an accrediting Escolab diploma that will be sent at the end of the year in digital format.

 It should be remembered that, once again, special activities will be designed in the context of World Brain Week, which will take place between March 10 and 16, 2026, which can now be consulted on the “Activities” page of the website.