The University of Navarra has organized several activities to celebrate the "Year of Science", promoted by the Ministry of Education and Science to encourage scientific dissemination initiatives and knowledge dissemination . Among the events programmed are cycles of conferences, round tables, debates and competitions of scientific knowledge dissemination , which will deal with topics such as climate change, renewable energies, evolution or biomedicine.

The Museum of Natural Sciences will also be holding an Open Doors conference , aimed especially at primary and secondary school pupils. The collection, considered to be the most important in the university field in Spain, conserves more than two million specimens of different biological species. The Open Doors Week will be repeated in October and there are also plans to publish an educational guide for schoolchildren visiting the museum, as well as informative leaflets and CDs.

Among the activities of the "Year of Science", there will also be various informative talks on current topics of social interest with the participation of experts in the scientific field. For example, in October there will be a workshop on "The origin of man" with the participation of, among others, Daniel Turbón, Full Professor of Paleontropology and author of the book Human evolution. 

Science Week will take place in November and will feature sessions on the environment and climate change, renewable energy, biotechnology, and biomedicine and health; and in December, coinciding with the submission the 2007 Nobel Prizes, a roundtable will be held roundtable the discoveries made by the laureates in Chemistry, Physics, and Medicine. 

Other initiatives include an Education course, to be held in October and November, aimed at students, industry professionals, and anyone interested in the topic; and two activities on scientific photography: a contest open to the general public; and the exhibition of the sample FotCiencia06" sample from competition Scientific Photography competition . 

Similarly, there will be conference , where high school diploma students high school diploma practical exercises in Biology, Biochemistry Chemistry, Nutrition, and Pharmacy; and activities such as the Ortiz de Landázuri Commemorative Lecture or the CIMA classroom will be included. 

The activities for the University of Navarra’s “Year of Science” have been organized by various centers—Medicine,Pharmacy,Nursing, research center Applied research center (CIMA), andthe University Clinic—coordinated by the School of Science. Its goal “to bring ‘real’ science—the kind practiced by professionals, university professors, and researchers—closer to society as a whole, and especially to young people,” explained Ignacio López-Goñi, Dean the Faculty. It also aims to spark interest and a calling for science and technology, and to raise public awareness of their benefits.