The Universitat's research group Labpsitec has won the second and third awards of the video competition #QueSigaLaCiencia organised by the Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red (CIBER, in English: Networking Biomedical Research Centre). Labpsitec group, from the CIBER Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN, in English: Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition) of the Universitat de València, shows, on both prizewinning videos, the importance of technologies such as the internet or mobile phones to help achieve a healthier life, or the use of virtual reality to improve psychological assessment and treatments. CIBEROBN group leader, Rosa Baños, and researcher Rocío Herrero have been the award-winning authors.
Fighting villains involved in abdominal aorta aneurysm is the challenge explained by the super-scientists on their one-minute video, which has received the highest score from the CIBER panel in this #QueSigaLaCiencia edition. Saray Varona, researcher at the CIBER de Enfermedades Cardiovasculares (CIBERCV, in English: Cardiovascular Diseases) and, specifically, at the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), along with Lídia Puertas, researcher at the Institut de Recerca de l'Hospital Sant Pau, have become superheroes that fight against this cardiovascular disease.
The prizewinning videos will be released on 13 November, coinciding with the Science Week in Madrid, in an online awards ceremony via CIBER's channel on YouTube.
In addition, CIBER has worked on a programme planning of online meetings with researchers to announce another of the works presented and to take advantage of the opportunity to chat with participants and debate current issues such as the need for scientific spreading among women, research in times of pandemic or the beginning of the research career and scientific vocation. Moreover, there will be a meeting devoted to research management.
A campaign to make the importance of biomedical research visible
#QueSigaLaCiencia is a campaign carried out via social media that aims to transmit to society, from an optimistic point of view, the importance of research and the work developed by CIBER research staff.
The meeting - linked to the campaign- has count on a high participation, gathering a total of 69 videos from all the scientific areas of the centre. Researchers accepted the challenge of explaining their research in just one minute by letting their imagination run wild and using several formats. The panel was made of four people from the CIBER's Technical Office and a representative from each area of the centre.
#QueSigaLaCiencia Audience Award on social networks.
The campaign released by CIBER through its Twitter account @CIBER_ISCIII and that can be followed by using #QueSigaLaCiencia hashtag will start during the Science Week of Madrid, but it will continue until next year.
The audience will have the opportunity to vote for their favourite videos and a fourth prize will be awarded to the video that gets more "likes" on Twitter. "Audience Award aims to involve society in our research and convey the importance that, today more than ever, #QueSigaLaCiencia has", they encourage from the organisation.
Networking Biomedical Research Centre (CIBER)
The aim of the Networking Biomedical Research Centre (CIBER), created by initiative of the Institute of Health Carlos III - dependent on the Ministry of Science and Innovation -, is to boost research of excellence in biomedicine and health sciences carried out in the National Health System and the System for Science and Technology. Currently, CIBER has nearly 7,000 researchers, including both associated and hired ones, integrated into more than 400 research groups, without physical contiguity, belonging to more than 100 consortium institutions.
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