A researcher in your classroom

ICMAB was involved in the Escolab programme "Connectem Recerca i Aula" which brought Organic Electronics closer to students. 

Many of our ICMAB researchers participated during 2022 in the Nanoinventum projecte, bringing nanotechnology to primary school students. Is it a difficult task?

A new workshop for secondary high school students to know where does the sand from our beaches come from and what is sand really is made of. 

ICMAB participated in the ESCOLAB programme "Connectem recerca i aula" to connect research with schools.

We visited the Institut Escola Arts in Barcelona to show them some of the impressive properties of materials!

Even if we cannot go to schools face-to-face, ICMAB researchers have "visited" some schools using online platforms during these last months. For us it is important to still go to schools, to knock down the walls between young students and scientists, "for most of them it is the first time they meet someone who works as a researcher" says Judit Morlà Folch, one of the researchers who has participated. 

During the Science Week 2019, in November, six of our researchers brought scientific research closer to the young students aged 15-17 years old within the framework of the programme "A researcher in your classroom". They went to five different highschools and gave a talk to the students, who had the opportunity to learn more about nanoscience and nanotechnology and about what is it like to be a scientist.

In the morning of Thursday, 26 September 2019, Judith Morlà, TecnioSpring researcher at the Nanomol Group, and Andrés Gómez, Senior Technician at the Scanning Probe Microscopy Lab, became "A researcher in your classroom": they went to give some science talks to two high schools, in the framework of the European Researchers' Night. 

The CSIC Delegation in Catalunya wants to contribute to the promotion of scientific vocations in young girls, and facilitate the contact between them and the scientists from the nearby research centers. For this reason, an educational action in the framework of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (11 February) is organized, consisting on school visits by some CSIC researchers, who will explain their research projects and their life as a scientist to primary school students.