Durante 2016, el programa “Embajadores para la ciencia” reunió a nueve parejas de científicos y diplomáticos a lo largo de unos días para que ambos colectivos se acercasen a la realidad de sus respectivos mundos profesionales: la ciencia y la diplomacia.
On December 1st the seminar "A Science Diplomacy Approach for Belgium" was held in Brussels, organized by Belgian institutions and supported by the European project H2020-ELCSID.
Last 9th December, Cristina Villa del Campo, postdoctoral researcher in the University of Oxford, participated in “Science in the Classroom” in the Spanish School Vicente Cañada Blanch in London. Her talk was entitled “Regenerative cardiology: Learning how to cure broken hearts”.
On November 4, the event "International Cooperation in Immunotherapy for Cancer" was held at the Spanish Embassy in Berlin. The event, organized by FECYT in collaboration with the Cultural Office of the Embassy in Germany and framed within the Berlin Science Week, brought together medical groups from Spain and Germany who work in clinical research in leukemia.
The Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology, in collaboration with the Society of Spanish Researchers in Germany Society (CERFA) and the Embassy of Spain in Berlin have issued a short guide with relevant information for Spanish researchers in Germany.
The Association of Spanish scientists in the United States (ECUSA), in collaboration with the FECYT and the Embassy of Spain in Washington DC, organized the first round table to discussion on one of the hottest topics of public health: Vaccines and their myths.
The exhibition FOTCIENCIA13 opened Last July 12th in the Spanish Embassy in Berlin with the presence of more than one hundred guests. This exhibition shows for the first time outside of Spain the 49 finalists of the contest of scientific photography organized by FECYT and CSIC.
The chapter in North Rhine-Westphalia of the Society of Spanish Scientists in Germany (CERFA-NRW) celebrated last June 20th its third annual symposium “Women in Science”. The event was organized by the young scientists Dr. Tania Romacho, Dr. Raquel Fiz, and M. Sc. Cristina Murcia.
La Secretaría de Estado de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación, la Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT), la Dirección de Relaciones Culturales y Científicas de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID) y la Fundación Ramón Areces organizaron en Madrid unas jornadas con el fin de mejorar la integración de la ciencia española en la política exterior.
The Director of International Cooperation of the European Commission Directorate General for Research and Innovation has met with the European Office. At the meeting, Cristina Russo explained the European Commission’s understanding of international cooperation and presented its strategy and its interest in both Horizon 2020.