"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 activities for the Science and Technology Week. This year its star activity is "Science on Wheels", an initiative of scientific dissemination and experimentation in schools whose objective is to bring science closer to Navarre's schoolchildren in a fun and didactic way.

"In this peculiar year we also want to celebrate Science Week. We have to reinvent ourselves, and for this reason, we have got into a van to tell young people from all over Navarre about the importance of science. We are going to carry out biology, chemistry and physics experiments in about 20 schools, always with the appropriate safety measures," says Marta Revuelta, head of activities at 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, Professor of Genetics at the University of Navarra, and Lluis Montoliú, CSIC researcher at the National Center for Biotechnology. This session can be followed on the Science Museum's YouTube channel.

Also, and within the cycle of conferences of "The Science Museum Explains", on Friday 13th, Josep Maria Argemi, researcher at the Cima University of Navarra, will give a conference 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 attendees on "COVID19 Vaccines: present and future". These two sessions will be held in person at 7:30 p.m. in the assembly hall of the Science 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 in the auditorium of the Science 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 is organizing three exhibitions as part of Science Week. The FOTCIENCIA17 exhibition, which brings together the best scientific photographs of 2019 - granted by the Spanish National Research Council - will remain on display until November 19 in the Friends of the University of Navarra Building. In addition, an exhibition of scientific photography on invasive species will remain on display until November 20 in the Science Building; and an 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 society aware of the science that is being done and the impact it has. Cinema, conferences, experimental workshops or exhibitions are some of the tools we use to reach different audiences," adds Revuelta.

Science Week is an activity organized every year by the Science Museum of the University of Navarra, and in this edition has the support of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) / Ministry of Science and Innovation, as well as other institutions such as Laboral Kutxa, Cima University of Navarra, City Council of Valle de Egüés, National Autonomous University of Mexico, and the Faculty of Sciences of 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.