The Science Museum of the University of Navarra has inaugurated"Science in the street", an activity to bring citizens closer to the science behind everyday aspects such as beer, a loaf of bread, a mobile, a car, or a fruit through infographics.

The Science Museum of the University of Navarra has produced infographics in Spanish and Basque that have been displayed on twenty totems and thirty bus shelters in Pamplona and the region. The documents can be downloaded using a QR code.

The presentation took place at the totem located at Paseo de Sarasate 38 (Pamplona) and was attended by Ignacio López-Goñi, director of the Science Museum of the University of Navarra, and Agurtzane Martínez Ortigosa, Director General of Innovation of the Government of Navarra, and Fernando Sesma, Councilman of Education, Citizen Participation and Youth.

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The Museum's director stressed that this initiative aims to tell different stories of "Citizen Science" and encouraged other municipalities in the region "to collaborate in bringing science to their localities and even to schools".

Agurtzane Martínez Ortigosa, General Director of Innovation of the Government of Navarra, stressed that this initiative is special "because financial aid with a problem present in society, the lack of scientific culture". "Science is in everything we do. As this campaign makes clear, we need to change the perception of science as something out of touch with reality, because the future that awaits us will require scientific-technical profiles," she said.

Finally, Councilman Fernando Sesma stressed that Pamplona is part of the association International Educating Cities and is trying to turn the whole city into a space educational. Therefore, he highlighted this initiative with which "the citizens of Pamplona can find themselves walking around the city with the infographics on the totems and bus shelters and see the science behind many of the issues that seem to us everyday".

This activity of knowledge dissemination is part of the activities organized by this institution for Science Week. It is an initiative of the Science Museum of the University of Navarra and the Chair of Scientific Culture of the University of the Basque Country, with the support of partnership of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) / Ministry of Science and Innovation, the Government of Navarra and the City Council of Pamplona.