One more year, Barcelona celebrates the World Brain Awareness Week 2010 in its 15th anniversary. Between 15 and 21 March, the Barcelona Science program, along with the Centre for Genomic Regulation, the Barcelona Institute of Education and the collaboration of numerous research centres, organizes a special program for schools and proposals for the general public, adding to this initiative, which emerged from the researchers themselves and which followed in over 72 countries, with the aim of publicizing the efforts being made in the study of human brain to understand its operation.

12 March 2010

The mundane nature, ideological dogmatism and a degree of unpopularity are some common points for the biography of the naturalist Cuvier and the philosopher Hegel, as pointed out in the book "The parallel lives of Georges Cuvier and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Nature and philosophy ", a study carried out by the Professor of the Department of Animal Biology Adrià Casinos, an expert in biomechanics and in studies on evolutionary theories. The book, published recently in the series "Monographs", from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), focuses on the biographical crosses and spatial and temporal coincidence of the lives of Cuvier and Hegel, two reference figures in the world of science and philosophical thought.

12 March 2010

On 20 and 21 March during the celebration of the World Meteorological Day, CosmoCaixa opens its doors free to enjoy a weekend full of activities on weather, for both adults and children.

12 March 2010

The CCCB has arranged for next Tuesday 16 March at 19.00 pm, the day "I + C + i-platform", where a group of professionals will explain the possibilities that multi-platform such as television, internet and mobile offer to creators and the audiovisual industry.

12 March 2010

Until the 2nd of May of 2010, the MNACTEC offers the exhibition "EXPO. Fusion, Energy for the Future", a sign that shows the development of fusion research as an alternative energy source that is environmentally acceptable, safe and sustainable.

11 March 2010

From the 8th of March to the 9th of May at the lobby of the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, the photographic exhibition "Connected to Life" can be visited, a testimony of the everyday life of renal patients through the photos by Tino Soriano. With this photographic exhibition, the Catalan centre (a referent in an integrated approach of renal disease and transplantation) aims to raise awareness about a disease that affects 9.3% of the Spanish population.

11 March 2010

The situation in which the print media in the second half of the nineteenth Century found itself is the starting point of a photo exhibition which includes various images of the Austrian Empress Sissi. The exhibition, entitled "Elisabeth, Empress of Austria., Etc., etc. Image and Myth: the portrait or the art of fine-tuning", is organized by the Department of Humanities at the UPF, with the Austrian Historical Institute and the Austrian Cultural Forum.

11 March 2010

Today Thursday the 11th of March at 19.00 h, at the Archaeological Museum of Barcelona, the conference / workshop "Cereals and vegetables. The first plants domesticated in the kitchen" will be held by Dr. Ramon Buxó, archaeologist at the Archaeology Museum of Catalonia and archaeo-botanical specialist. The conference belongs to the cycle of conferences "Cicerone."

11 March 2010

The University of Lleida proposes for tomorrow Wednesday 10 March at 19.00 h, in the Rectory, a piano concerto by Alfredo Armero, with pieces by Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin and Enric Granados.

9 March 2010

The UB has just published the "Report of the 2008-2009 academic year”. This document, which reflects the highlights and key data from the institution from each year, is releasing a more attractive format with the goal of being a publication that serves to introduce to the general public the University and its current reality. The Report has been published in Catalan, Spanish and English.

9 March 2010

The Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University Pompeu Fabra and the PRBB (Biomedical Research Park of Barcelona), with the common purpose of encouraging research in biomedical sciences, announce the Fifth PRBB award of research in health and life sciences for high school students.

9 March 2010

The Department of Culture and Media of the Generalitat of Catalonia will create a website of international dissemination of Catalan music. The culture secretary, Eduard Voltas, explained that this website will bring together all the content, resources, online communities and services related to the music of Catalonia. The portal, according to Voltas, aims to "create a virtual community of people interested in music made in Catalonia and a platform for recruitment of Catalan groups. In addition to information about groups and artists, it will also contain video clips, discography, news and dates of concerts, and will enable to buy music by these performers through the network.

9 March 2010

The Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Group of Affected by Multiple Sclerosis Foundation (GAEM) celebrate the University Week of Solidarity for Research in Multiple Sclerosis. From Tuesday 9 March until Thursday 11 March, providing information on this disease at various faculties on campus.

8 March 2010

The Regional Minister for Culture and the Media, Joan Manuel Tresserras, presided yesterday over the signing of the agreement for the establishment of the Network of Museums and Archaeological Sites of Catalonia, which was also attended by representatives of six Catalan museums. The network enables to articulate common policies for the protection, dissemination, training and revitalization of local cultural heritage items contained in the seven museums.

8 March 2010

The Department of Culture and Media of the Generalitat of Catalonia has launched Argus a tool that provides service to 142 public libraries and unifies 4 pre-existing catalogs. It also increases the number of documents on loan and its term. From the 1 March, the people who use the 142 public libraries in Girona, Lleida, Tarragona and Terres de l'Ebre and six towns of Barcelona, can access the document collections of these libraries via Argus.

8 March 2010