The exhibition "16 Catalan woman scientists" will be inanugurated on Tuesday, February 23rd at 19.00, at the Cultural Center Les Corts. The main objective of this project, organized by the Catalan Association of Scientific Communication (ACCC), is to bridge the gap between the social perception of science and the figure of woman scientists. The exhibition aims at modifying topics, such as the fact that professionals engaged in research are mostly men.

The exhibition, which is based on the profile of 16 scientists working in universities, research centers and companies in Catalonia, has been organized by the Catalan Association of Scientific Communication (ACCC), through a grant from the Department of Innovation, Universities and Enterprise of the Generalitat of Catalonia.

According to Mercè Piqueras, President of the ACCC and coordinator of the exhibition, "although women are still a minority in some areas of research, the number of woman researchers has increased in recent decades. But the biggest presence in the laboratory is hardly reflected in public perception of science".

"In order to compensate this deficit, this exhibition has been prepared on the basis of a series of profiles of woman researchers in different areas: biomedicine, chemistry, physics, mathematics, archeology ,...", states the technical secretary of the exhibition, Raül Toran.

With the  occasion of this exhibition -with is present on the Internet through the blog http://16cientifiquescatalanes.blogspot.com/, a set of talks will showcase the experience of women engaged in the research.

This exhibition, which ends on March 10th and coincides with the International Women's Day, wants to highlight the role of women in the advancement of science in our society. As University of Barcelona researcher Isabel Cacho says: "The job allows a researcher to think, create ... A luxury that is worth. "

Exhibition: 16th Scientific Catalan
Venue: Centre Cultural Les Corts - C/ Dolors Masferrer i Bosch, 33-35, Barcelona
From 23 February to 10 March, 9h to 24h, Monday to Sunday

An interview with the president of the ACCC, Mercè Piqueras, has appeared in the February 7th issue of L'Almudaina, the Sunday supplement of the newspaper Diario de Mallorca. The interview focuses on the activities of the association and on the present and future of science communication, according to its president.

January bulletin of the WFSJ

The Master in History of Science and Scientific Communication is organized by the López Piñero Institute of History of Medicine and Science (IHMC), joint center of the University of Valencia and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Beyond IHMC professors and researchers, master teachers will include professors from the journalism area of the Department of Theory of Languages and Sciences of Communication of the University of Valencia together with professionals of communication and popularization. Recognized professors from Spanish and foreign universities will participate, as well. More information.

On November 30th and December 1st, 2009 the congress "Communicating Science in Red" (ComCiRed) will be held at the Auditorium of the Communication Campus of the University Pompeu Fabra, in Barcelona, under the organization of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), and the Catalan Association of Scientific Communication (ACCC), in collaboration with the Science Communication Observatory of the University Pompeu Fabra (OCC-UPF).

Conclusion of the inauguration talk, by Daniel Innerarity.

This congress aims to bring together people responsible of science museums and scientific culture units, media, science communicators and scientists interested in outreach, to discuss the initiatives for the promotion of scientific culture in Spain, with a special focus on the use of the Internet to create and publish content in different digital formats, as well as for networking institutions and people that are linked or not in the presence space or the territory.

The conference program can be consulted, along with more information, on the conference website. The debate is already open in the forum of the congress.