Barcelona Science Park presents the Exporecerca Jove awards Blog Post

From 28 February to 2 March the YoMo Festival in La Farga de l’Hospitalet hosted the 20th Exporecerca Jove, a fair featuring 120 research projects by young people aged 12 to 30. The exhibition is organised every year by the MAGMA association. The idea is to encourage young people to get involved in research, promote sharing experiences and drive participation at this and other fairs and congresses in Spain and abroad. The Barcelona Science Park (Parc Científic de Barcelona, PCB) handed out three awards and a runner-up prize consisting of a day in a laboratory at its facilities along with the chance to attend a workshop in its Research in Society programme.

 

Kelly Arrontes blends art and science at Barcelona Science Park again Blog Post

The work “The origin of life” by artist Kelly Arrontes was unveiled yesterday at Barcelona Science Park. The unveiling, presided over by the rector of the University of Barcelona, Joan Elias, brought together a hundred people and leading representatives from the academic, scientific and cultural world and from the Third Social Sector.

 

Barcelona Science Park takes part in YoMo for the third year running Blog Post

Barcelona Science Park (Parc Científic de Barcelona, PCB) takes an active role in the 3rd edition of the Youth Mobile Festival (YoMo), which today opens its doors at the La Farga de L’Hospitalet exhibition centre, as part of the Mobile World Congress (MWC19 Barcelona). Over five days, YoMo will welcome around 20,000 students visiting from across Catalonia and the rest of Spain, in a huge exposition of science and technology, with live theatre shows, interactive workshops and other offerings to inspire thousands of young people and bring them closer to professional careers in the mobile ecosystem and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics).

 

Hipra opens an R&D centre at the Barcelona Science Park Blog Post

Hipra, the multinational company dedicated to the research, production and marketing of animal health products, has opened an R&D centre at the Barcelona Science Park (PCB). The company from Girona (Spain) is one of the world’s leading veterinary vaccine and biological medicine companies and boasts more than thirty subsidiaries across the globe.

 

The 29th edition of the DTI’s “Curso Superior Internacional en Donación y Trasplante de Órganos y Tejidos” is inaugurated at PCB Blog Post

Today marked the inauguration of the 29th edition of the Curso Superior Internacional en Donación y Trasplante de Órganos y Tejidos at the Barcelona Science Park (PCB). The programme, organised by the Donation & Transplantation Institute (DTI), will be executed until 22 February in Barcelona and Sant Hilari Sacalm, with the participation of forty-nine students from Spain and eleven different Latin American countries.

 

Social awareness event for Eudonorgan project at the European Parliament Blog Post

More than 120 professionals from the field of health and other experts from thirty-three countries worldwide have taken part in the social awareness event of the EUDONORGAN project, an initiative directly launched by the European Parliament and led by the University of Barcelona, together with the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation and the DTI Foundation – Donation & Transplantation Institute, both entities located at the Barcelona Science Park. Under the motto “Why organ donation matters to us all?”, on February 18 this forum gathered in the headquarters of the European Parliament in Brussels (Belgium) a wide representation of experts of the field of health, patients, NGOs, support groups and other collectives. 

 

IBEC researchers generate mini-kidneys vascularized from stem cells Blog Post

Researchers from the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) at the Barcelona science Park, have created, for the first time, 3D organoid cultures from pluripotent stem cells, which resemble human embryonic kidney tissue during the second trimester of pregnancy. Using biomaterials that mimic the embryonic microenvironment, scientifics have also achieved mini-kidneys with relevant features for immediate use in renal disease modeling.