European Researchers Night University of Zaragoza Arrives this Friday Aragon With attractive proposals in the three capitals of the community, transforming them into real open-air laboratories, with more than 70 activities (among them Performances, monologues, walks or experiments) In collaboration with more than 250 scientists. ZaragozaOne of the most exciting shows will be the RUBE Circus and Science Show (8:00 p.m.), presented by Aladeyá, which will show the incredible effects that physics can generate by playing with imagination. This theatrical show – with hypnotic juggling movements with magnetized tubes, balls, diapers or light batons programmed in milliseconds – is performed using a Rube Goldberg machine and is operated by two engineers.
Another novelty in this edition is the presentation of a 12-minute audio clip created using artificial intelligencewith a reproduced voice of the professor and pioneer of nutrition in Spain, Professor Grande Covián (at 6:00 p.m.), reading the article “Myths in Food” published in ABC in 1985. The session will be moderated by: Professors at the University of Zaragoza, Miguel Bucovi and Fernando Severa, Trustees of the Aragonese Grande Covián Foundation.
This year's European Researchers Night adds escape room “The Bible, History and Culture of Women” (5:00 p.m.), which will be held in the Conference Hall. Baraninfo Cafeteria; or talk with the experiments of the “real Frankenstein” (7:00 p.m.), where the relationship between life and electricity will be reviewed and how, during the first half of the 19th century, many scientists tried to revive corpses using electricity because they believed that the secret of life was hidden in it. The lecture, which will be given by the scientific publisher Miguel Ángel Sabadell, is part of the great Electricity exhibition, organized by EDEMUZ-Unizar, which offers a journey through time, where classic electrical machines come to life.
One of the classics of the “European Night of L@s Detectives” is “Coffee with Scientists (6:30 p.m.) From the campaign I am a scientist. “I live in your neighborhood” (individual meeting to learn about the work of different researchers), which will be enjoyed again in the Paraninfo dining room.
In this edition, a special guest also returns: Albert Einstein himself (represented by actor Jesús Pescador), who will show us several rooms of the building where he gave two conferences in March 1923.
- Walk to rediscover the city
- Baby Perez's Mouse Milk Teeth, Experiments and Workshops
- Nine Spanish Universities Coordinating
Walk to rediscover the city
Another new feature in this edition is that “Scientific marches“(It is the only activity for which it is necessary to register in the forms available on the site, because they have a specific schedule and capacity) extends to Huesca and Teruel for the first time. In total, on the night of Friday 27 September, 16 activities will be carried out: eight in Zaragoza and four in Huesca and Teruelrespectively. In Zaragoza, these marches are divided between those that will take place inside Paraninfo and those that will take place in other locations in the city. Among the first, those that will take place in The hall, They include:
- -Discover the art, architecture and secrets of Paraninfo (5:00 pm).
- – Tour led by art historian Sarai Salvo (IPH)
- -Kajal, the Nobel Prize winner in medicine who didn't want to be a doctor (5:30 p.m. | 6:30 p.m.).
- – Two guided tours led by art historian Clara Salvador Martin
- – Hall Tour with… Albert Einstein (5:30pm | 7:00pm)
- -From the hand of Albert Einstein, featured by actor Jesús Pescador
- -What the UNIZAR Historical Archives Documents Say (6:00 PM | 7:00 PM)
- -Two guided tours by Esther Pinto Rionda, Deputy Historical Archives
- – Library Whispers (7:00 p.m.). Tour led by Historical Public Library Director Cruz Joven Perez.
Out of the hallCitizens who wish to do so will be able to enjoy these other proposals:
- -Tame walk through the city (5:30pm | 6:30pm).
- – Two visits with mathematicians Luis Randiz and Alvaro Lozano (IUMA).
- -Walking through Roman Zaragoza. Visit the Roman Theater Museum. (6:30 pm).
- – Tour led by art historian José Manuel González González (ARGOS-IUCA)
- – Geological tour along the Ebro River and through the old chemical industrial area of the Ministry. Geology, floods and polluted waste. (5:30 pm | 6:30 pm).
- – Tour led by geologists Arantxa Luzon, Oscar Boyo, Ana Rosa Soria and chemist Jorge Martin (IUCA)
On the other hand, Huesca launches four tours in this activity: “Environmental view of the areas surrounding the Isuela River in Huesca”; “Sports tour of the city center of Huesca”; “Interpretive visit to the Castle of Monteragón”; and “Free tour through the commercialization of Huesca”.
Teruel also joins these tours and does so with four tours: “Walk along the Guadalajara and Alfambra rivers”; “Mudéjar sports walk through the center of Teruel”; “Walk through Mudéjar art as a mixture of cultures” and “Biological and geological walk through the Parque de los Fueros-Ricardo Esid”.
Baby Perez's Mouse Milk Teeth, Experiments and Workshops
In this new celebration, children once again become Perez Mouse Assistants (With certificate) If they bring the teeth of children to any of the three cities. The objective is to participate, together with the National Center for Research in Human Evolution (CENIEH) in Burgos, in paleoanthropological and forensic investigations.
Added to all this are dozens Experiments and workshops Which will be carried out in the capitals of the three provinces where participants will be able to become surgeons for a day, solve crimes, start a business or get to know the land they walk on, in addition to measuring radioactivity or decoding messages using cryptography. Among many other proposals, such as the European corner with Marie Curie researchers, which can be consulted in the program now available on the web.
Nine Spanish Universities Coordinating
The celebration of the European Researchers' Night is once again part of the European project G9-SCIENCE4ALL of the ninth group of universities, coordinated by the University of Cantabria and in which the University of Oviedo participates as well as the University of Zaragoza, the University of Castilla-La Mancha, the University of Extremadura, the University of the Balearic Islands, the University of the Basque Country, the Public University of Navarra and the University of La Rioja.
At the University of Zaragoza, the Researchers' Night is chaired by the Vice-Rector for Scientific Policy and is organised by the Scientific Culture Unit (UCC) and the European Projects Office (OPE), in collaboration with private and mixed research institutes with the University of Zaragoza and other research centres, as well as with the Huesca and Teruel campuses.
The G9-SCIENCE4ALL project of the European Researchers' Night Unizar is funded by the European Commission under the Marie Skodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), within the Horizon Europe programme.
