Funding for academic research in Catalonia has a new actor, the RecerCaixa program, which has recently awarded 1.4 million euros to twenty projects in the fields of the social sciences and health. The initiative plans to spend a total of nine million euros over the next three years

STAFF | FEBRUARY 23RD, 2011

Heirs to the CIRIT Awards, on Saturday, Dec. 18, the first Young Researchers Awards were given to a total of 71 adolescents and 11 secondary schools. The amount of the awards was €750 per student and €2,500 per school

STAFF | DECEMBER 20TH, 2010

The 15th annual Science Week in Catalonia (SC'10), coordinated by Talència with support from the Catalan Department for Innovation, Universities and Business, will take place from Nov. 12 to 22. This year, there will be more than 300 activities threading together the concepts of biodiversity and intercultural understanding in celebration of the International Year of Biodiversity and the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures.

STAFF | NOVEMBER 10TH, 2010

A team led by Carles Lalueza-Fox, a researcher at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, studied a dried blood sample stored in a gourd that supposedly was kept as a souvenir from the execution of the French King Louis XVI by guillotine in 1793.

STAFF | OCTOBER 25TH, 2010