Big data, transgenics, vaccines or future energy discussed in the next virtual experience of Expociencia
Expociència, the Scientific Park’s open day at the Universitat de València, makes a debut this month as a virtual experience aimed at secondary and high school students. This formula replaces this year’s traditional science party, which was postponed last May due to the pandemic. In the 2020 edition, e-XPOCIÈNCIA will be offering from 23 to 27 November different online sessions for scientific debate among the youth, as well as a chemical theatre play to conclude the celebration.
3 de november de 2020
The Universitat de València celebrates e-XPOCIÈNCIA 2020 as a series of colloquial and educational lectures open to debate in streaming, which will arrive in the secondary and high school classrooms the week of 23-27 November. The programme encompasses a total of eight sessions on topics of general scientific interest, from artificial intelligence and big data to renewable energies, transgenic foods or vaccines, among others.
In line with the traditional Expociencia, the scientists themselves will be the ones who raise each question and who will be at the disposal of the students and participating teachers online. This is a great opportunity to arouse curiosity, solve doubts and share ideas with researchers who work daily with the European Space Agency or in projects of the Large Particle Accelerator of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) or perhaps they work in biodiversity conservation, energy efficiency and natural environment. This is due to the fact that a great number of them carry out their task in the Science Park of the Universitat and participate, year after year, in every single Expociencia’s edition.
What is the purpose of satellites, what do we know about neutrinos, new materials for energetic efficiency, data and Artificial Intelligence to change the humanity, the challenges of the modern high-precision medicine, image processing with the phone, the future of food packaging or life essential microorganisms are some of the topics which the students will be able to deepen by the hand of experts of the Universitat de València, the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and technological and science-based companies of the Science Park of the academic institution.
The lectures will take place throughout four days –from 23 to 26– and will be moderated by the physician and scientific disseminator Alberto Aparici. The programme can be consulted in www.expociencia.org and will conclude on Friday 27 November with the show ‘La química es puro teatro, el teatro es pura química’ (Chemistry is pure theatre, theatre is pure chemistry), a proposal for dissemination of the Faculty of Chemistry that has been a reality since 2008 through the Chemical Theatre company. The last session will be preceded by the awards ceremony of the Premios Experimenta 2020.
Although it is aimed at secondary and high school public, e-XPOCIÈNCIA 2020 is opento everyone’s participation.