The CSIC Catalunya organized a morning in which women scientists from different CSIC centers visited the school “Escola Can Maiol” in Sants, Barcelona, to talk and experiment with science. From the ICMAB, Arántzazu González, chemist, visited the group of 3r Primària (8-9 years old) and did some experiments to discover the acid/basic properties of some natural substances that we have at home by the change of color. Sants3Radio was there to talk with them!

Register before it’s too late! The dramatised reading “Madame Châtelet and her Instagram followers”, which recently received a Grant from FGCSIC, will open the Conference Cycle organized by Alumni UB “Dones de ciència retrobades en la història”. The dramatised reading will take place on Monday, 29 April at 6 pm at the “Sala Gabriel Oliver” (Facultat de Filologia, Edifici Històric UB). Entrace is free but registration is needed.

Terrassa held on 6-7 March 2019 the first edition of the “Women, Science and Technology” (WSciTech19) Conference (Congrés de Dones, Ciència i Tecnologia) and the “Châtelet team” at ICMAB presented their dramatised lecture “Madame Châtelet and her Instagram followers” as a tool to visibilize the wise women in the history of science.

The CSIC Delegation in Catalunya wants to contribute to the promotion of scientific vocations in young girls, and facilitate the contact between them and the scientists from the nearby research centers. For this reason, an educational action in the framework of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (11 February) is organized, consisting on school visits by some CSIC researchers, who will explain their research projects and their life as a scientist to primary school students.

Arántzazu González, Ramon y Cajal researcher at ICMAB and participant of the program “A Researcher in your classroom” was at two primary schools in November, in the framework of the “Science Week” to show the students what is a scientist and what type of research we do at the ICMAB.

On Saturday 29 September, the dramatised reading “Madame Châtelet and her Instagram followers”, which features the life and discoveries of several women scientists throughout history, was represented in the Library “Biblioteca Sagrada Família”, Barcelona, at 1 pm, in the framework of the activities of the European Researchers’ Night (Nit Europea de la Recerca), organised in Catalonia.

Continuing the Strategic Vision for the Severo Ochoa programme FUNMAT (“Smart FUNctional MATerials for social grand challenges”), the ICMAB opened the call for the third edition of the Frontier Interdisciplinary Projects (FIP) earlier this year 2018. Out of all the proposals submitted, 9 projects in different fields have been granted.