The first conversation, “Science through art”, will have the participation of Cristina Junyent and Jaume Bertranpetit, and will be moderated by the journalist Reis Juan. Cristina Junyent is a biologist and scientific communicator dedicated to dissemination since 1989. Member of the Catalan Association of Scientific Communication, she has received various literary awards and the professional career award of the College of Biologists of Catalonia. Jaume Bertranpetit is emeritus professor of biology (Pompeu Fabra University) and member of the Institute of Catalan Studies. With Cristina Junyent, he is co-author of Viatge al orígens: història biològica de l’espècie humana (‘Journey to the origins: biological history of the human species’), winner of the 1997 European Award for the Dissemination of Science.

The series “Our future with science” is organised by Espai Ciència (Valencia October Center for Contemporary Culture) and, among others, the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit (UCC+ i) of the University of Valencia.

The “Estudi General” European Award for the Dissemination of Science, endowed with 12,000 euros and convened in collaboration with Edicions Bromera, aims to stimulate the creation and dissemination of works that, with an understandable language, put reach of the general public, and pre-university students in particular, scientific and technological advances, and also the dissemination of interesting aspects of the various branches of knowledge. The “Sense Fronteres” collection, directed by the full professor of Journalism Carolina Moreno, includes 47 books so far, in Valencian. In addition, some of these works have been translated into Spanish and are available in the “Sin Fronteras” collection.

The conversation with Daniel Ramón and Pere Puigdomènech will be on February 14: “The future of food”. On April 17, the doctor Ramon Gomis and the chemist and populariser Xavier Duran will talk about science through literature, while on April 24, the conversation will deal with the future of disruptive science, with fellow chemist Álvaro Martínez and the biologist and publicist Jesús Purroy.

On May 22, biologist Joandomènec Ros and environmentalist and publicist Andreu Escrivà will discuss the future of the planet; on the 29^th, the neurologist Jose R. Alonso and the full professor of Psychiatry Adolf Tobeña will participate in the conversation “The future of the human brain”.

Arcadi Navarro, ICREA researcher and biologist, and physicist Susanna Manrubia will talk about the future of science in times of banality, on June 18; while archaeologist Valentín Villaverde and neurobiologist Juan Nácher will share the last conversation, on September 18: “What makes us human?”.

The talks are an action that is part of the Annual Science Dissemination Plan of the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit co-funded by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology and the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.

Jaume Bertranpetit video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptKJWi3aWhE