Nearly 200 activities to promote science and tech with the Science Festival
Two-hundred activities, 27 locations and over 150 centres and research groups, universities and companies promoting science in the city and the metropolitan area. These are the figures for the 15th Science Festival, to be held on 28 and 29 May. The festival is set to fill Rambla del Raval and nearby spaces with research, experiments, workshops, shows, games, routes, visits, short talks, debates and a string of activities for people of all ages. Part of the Barcelona Science Plan 2020-2023, the City Council’s plan to foster dialogue between science and society from an open play-based perspective, the event is now back in all its pre-pandemic glory.
The fifteenth edition of the Science Festival offers nearly 200 activities to promote science and tech. The centre for this year’s event is Rambla del Raval and Plaça Vázquez Montalbán, where most of the activities take place. Some other events are also planned around other points in the neighbourhood, such as royal academies and the Institut d’Estudis Catalans. This year’s festival involves over 150 research centres and groups, universities and companies promoting science in the city and the metropolitan area.
Holding the festival in the neighbourhood of El Raval signals the start of a new model to decentralise the event and seeks the involvement of local organisations. To this end, this edition actively involves twenty organisations from El Raval. In the next few years, the event will be held in other city neighbourhoods.
The festival also coincides with various events linked with science and the environment and which will be prominent in activities this year: the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030), the International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture, the International Year of Basic Science for Sustainable Development and the International Year of Glass.
You can find full information on the website for the Science Festival fortnight.
