La Ciutadella Knowledge Hub
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The park where science grows
La Ciutadella Knowledge Hub is a scientific and urban development project that will turn the Parc de la Ciutadella and its surroundings into a leading European hub for knowledge, dissemination, research and innovation.
We want the Parc de la Ciutadella to be better in form and content, for it to regain its former glory not just with physical improvements but by giving it character and a sense of use.
Looking at its origins (Universal Exhibition of 1888) and the activities that now surround the park (universities, museums, research centres, foundations, companies...), we find there an inspiring driving force: science, research and culture.
The transformation of the park
Parc de la Ciutadella, Barcelona’s oldest and most-visited park, is the cornerstone of La Ciutadella Knowledge Hub. It’s the connecting point between science and citizenship. We are renovating the park to update the infrastructure, the greenery and the heritage elements, to improve accessibility to the surrounding neighbourhoods and to prepare it to host new scientific and cultural activities.
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Strategic projects
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Mercat del Peix (The Fish Market)
Creation of a new research and innovation complex of some 45,000 m2, focused on biomedicine, biodiversity and global wellbeing, which will be located on the land formerly occupied by the market, next to the Ciutadella campus of Pompeu Fabra University (UPF).
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CSIC'S bioscience hub
The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) is to build a new biosciences centre that will bring together the different CSIC research units in Catalonia on the site that currently houses Spain’s Mobile Park, located in front of the UPF’s Ciutadella campus.
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Heritage and science hub
The southern side of the Parc de la Ciutadella, which runs along Passeig Picasso, is home to some of the most emblematic and recognisable buildings and facilities in the park (The Castle of the Three Dragons, the Hivernacle, the Umbracle and the Centre Martorell d'Exposicions), which form a hub of great heritage value where scientific and cultural uses will be reinforced.
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Central library
The future State Public Library in Barcelona will be located on land next to the Estació de França and will serve as the city's central urban library, with a metropolitan dimension.
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2019-2031 Strategic Zoo plan
The new strategic plan promotes and reinforces scientific activity at the Zoo in the fields of biodiversity conservation, wildlife management and animal welfare.
News
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10/06/2024 - 18:59 h Science Around 20,000 people participated in the 17th Science Festival
Throughout the weekend, the Born Centre of Culture and Memory and the Plaça Comercial were filled with 160 activities led by 400 people from some 140 organisations.
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07/06/2024 - 12:59 h Environment and sustainability The “Climate Machine”, the first major exhibition at the Ciutadella’s Hivernacle
The exhibition looks at three concepts relating to greenhouses: the past of these buildings, their links to art and science and their role in the future of sustainable food.
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07/06/2024 - 12:43 h Science 200 students have exhibited their research projects at the opening event of the 17th Science Festival
The closing day of the Citizen Science in Schools 2023-2024 academic year opened the festival that, over the weekend, has programmed more than 150 activities around the Born CCM and the plaça Comercial.
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11/02/2024 - 11:26 h Urban planning and infrastructures Redevelopment of the area around the old fish market approved
The area will be transformed into the future research complex at the Ciutadella del Coneixement.
Ciutadella of Knowledge Map
- Fish Market
- CSIC bioscience hub
- Heritage and science hub
- Three Dragons Castle
- Greenhouse
- Centre Martorell d'Exposicions
- Umbraculo
- Biblioteca Urbana Central
- Zoo's strategic plan