Enrique Sueiro, who holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Communication and has served as director Communications at research center Applied research center (CIMA), has taken over as head area the new Scientific area at the University of Navarra this academic year. He is being replaced at CIMA Natalia Horstmann, who was already working at the center.

The project a continuation of the Scientific Culture Unit (UCC), created in 2007 at the initiative of the School of Science, with financial aid the School of Communication thanks to initial funding from the Ministry of Education Science and the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT). At the same time, other similar UCCs were launched at 53 research universities and research centers.

The new area will promote synergies and organize interdisciplinary activities in three directions: dissemination of scientific knowledge, through reports, news, events and other formulas; teaching, through courses to train researchers in the skills of Public Communication and seminars on science aimed at students and communication professionals, among others; and research in knowledge dissemination science. The first activity of this course will begin in October, with the I seminar on Science Communication: national experts will talk about science on television, communication on astrophysics, biomedicine and health, environmental journalism, etc.

The area of Science Communication of the University of Navarra seeks to add the possibilities of knowledge dissemination offered by its Schools of Sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy, the technical school of Engineers, the research center in Applied Pharmacobiology (CIFA) and the University School of Nursing, together with the University Clinic and the CIMA, with the partnership of the School of Communication.