"Science on wheels": The Science Museum will travel to schools throughout Navarre doing scientific experiments as part of its Science Week activities.

The Science Museum of the University of Navarra has started its Science and Technology Week activities. This year its star activity is "Science on Wheels", an initiative of knowledge dissemination and scientific experimentation in schools whose goal is to bring science to schoolchildren in Navarre in a fun and educational way.

"In this peculiar year we also want to celebrate Science Week. We have to reinvent ourselves, and for that reason, we've got into a van to tell young people from all over Navarra about the importance of science. We are going to carry out experiments in biology, Chemistry and physics in about 20 schools and always with the appropriate safety measures" says Marta Revuelta, manager of activities of the Science Museum".

In addition to experimentation in schools, there will be other educational activities aimed at the general public. For example, on Wednesday, November 11 at 19:00, a webinar will be broadcast on "The CRISPR revolution: tribute to Francis Mojica" with the participation of Javier Novo, Full Professor of Genetics at the University of Navarra, and Lluis Montoliú, CSIC researcher at the National Center for Biotechnology. This session can be followed through the YouTube channel of the Science Museum.

Also, and within the lecture series of "The Science Museum Explains", on Friday 13th, Josep Maria Argemi, researcher at the Cima University of Navarra, will give a lecture on "Hepatitis C: an eradicated disease?On Thursday, November 19, it will be the turn of Pablo Sarobe, researcher at the same center, who will speak to the audience on "COVID19 Vaccines: present and future". These two sessions will be held in person at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Sciences Building and can also be followed online through the Science Museum's YouTube channel. 

Science Week at the University of Navarra will also feature the screening of two finalist documentaries of the first edition of #LabMeCrazy! Science Film Festival. Thus, on Thursday, November 12 at 19:30 pm the documentary "TheSun: Inferno in theSky" will be screened at auditorium of Sciences Building and on Tuesday, November 17 at the same time the Spanish production "Salvar al bucardo" will be shown.

On the other hand, the Museum organizes three exhibitions in the framework of the Science Week. The exhibition FOTCIENCIA17, which collects the best scientific photographs of 2019 -granted by the committee Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-, will remain on display until November 19 at Amigos Building of the University of Navarra. In addition, a sample of scientific photography on invasive species that will remain until November 20 at the Sciences Building; and a exhibition on Women Scientists, which will be present in different stores in the Egüés Valley until November 15.

"All these activities are aimed at making the science that is done and its repercussions known to society at knowledge . Cinema, conferences, experimental workshops or exhibitions are some of the tools we use to reach different audiences," adds Revuelta.

Science Week is an annual event organized by the University of Navarra Science Museum, and this year’s edition is supported by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) / the Ministry of Science and Innovation, as well as other institutions such as Laboral Kutxa, Cima of Navarra, the Egüés Valley City Council, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and the School of Science the University of Navarra.

You can see all the activities of the Science Week organized by the Science Museum of the University of Navarra here.