Fundación Caja Navarra contributes 1.5 million euros to the University's BIOMA Center

Fundación Caja Navarra will collaborate with the BIOMA Center of the University of Navarra. The Foundation is promoting this project with a contribution of 1.5 million euros that will be used to promote scientific and research culture and Education through the activities carried out by the University's Science Museum, which is integrated in the new building.

The hall of Degrees of the University has been the place chosen to strengthen the bonds of partnership between both entities; with the presence of the president of the Caja Navarra Foundation, José Ángel Andrés Gutiérrez; the president María Iraburu and the president of the association of Friends, Alfonso Sánchez-Tabernero. Through this agreement, different activities and workshops will be developed on environmental Education , educational programs for schoolchildren, research activities and scientific knowledge dissemination events, aimed at raising social awareness on environmental issues and boosting vocations for scientific careers and programs of study STEM. Equality, accessibility and inclusion of people with disabilities will also be promoted.  

The president María Iraburu thanked the Caja Navarra Foundation for its "generosity in collaborating in this strategic project , which is also at the service of the Comunidad Foral, with which the University of Navarra wants to contribute to the promotion of STEM scientific vocations, and to awaken the love for science and nature among the youngest through the program educational of the Science Museum".

For his part, José Ángel Andrés emphasized the importance for Fundación Caja Navarra of generating alliances between leading entities in our community. "It is a strategic issue for our organization. This agreement is also the confirmation of the support of Fundación Caja Navarra to issues such as research, science, knowledge and knowledge dissemination".

After an initial act, the attendees held a meeting in the viewpoint of BIOMA Center, next to Sciences Building of the University of Navarra, with Ignacio López Goñi, director of the Science Museum of the University of Navarra, and Marie-Anne Reynell, director of development, who explained more details of project and the plan educational planned.

A space for teaching, investigation and science dissemination

The BIOMA Center is a project that combines research, training and knowledge dissemination environmental and scientific. The building, which will be built next to the Cima, will house the Science Museum, the Institute of Biodiversity and Environment, spaces for the Schools of the area science and the headquarters of the University's entrepreneurship service, Innovation Factory. The University is finalizing with the different centers and services the definitive project of the building, which is already at an advanced stage.