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Science Academy

Science Academy is a training project of the Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation. Its aim is to stimulate scientific vocations among the youngest and provide knowledge in nature, territory or emotional training.

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Programs for stimulating scientific vocations

Crazy about Science laboratory

Mad for science

The programme encourages science and tech vocations linked to the world of research, aimed at secondary school students through theory and practical sessions given by researchers from leading research centres across Catalonia.

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Youth and Science

It aims to foster scientific-technological vocations among fifty students in their 4th year of compulsory secondary school (ESO) with talent and a drive to research. For three years, they have the opportunity to experience research firsthand, both locally and internationally. 

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Youth for Medicine

A program that encourages medical vocations, aimed at baccalaureate students through theory and practical sessions given by leading hospital centres across Catalonia.

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BIYSC

BIYSC

This international program is looking for young students from around the world who are passionate for science with the aim of stimulating their scientific talent and promoting their vocation for scientific research. 

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Nature Campus

Nature Campus

Programme targeted at baccalaureate students with a particular interest in the field of biodiversity and nature conservation with the goal of encouraging youths’ scientific vocations in this field of research. 
 

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Science and Food Campus

Science and Food Campus

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Programme targeted at students in baccalaureate with the goal of providing visibility to the importance of science in innovation and food research.

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Science promotion programs

Alinyà Campus

Alinyà Mountain university campus

The Environmental and Earth Sciences Campus at the Alinyà Nature Space provides the university community with an ideal setting for promoting research and conducting field practices, end-of-degree projects and post-graduate studies related to the environment in both the humanistic and scientific sense.

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Exporecerca Jove Award

Exporecerca Jove Award

This award is given at the Exporecerca Jove event and it consists in participation in Intel ISEF, the largest and most prestigious research fair for pre-university students in the world. 

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Vanguàrdia Award

Vanguardia Science Award

This award, inspired by the example of the magazine Science, which names a ‘Breakthrough of the Year’ every December, honours and awards the most important scientific breakthrough of the year in Spain. 

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Talents

Talents Programme

Research assistance for young medical specialists and other healthcare professionals who want to undertake a research project while remaining associated with the care provided at the hospital.

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Partnership with the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST)

Support for the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST)

We provide young researchers with research opportunities and promote classroom science by training scientists as teachers.

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Ignacio Cirac Chair

Ignacio Cirac Chair

The goal of the Ignacio Cirac Chair is to increase Catalonia’s capacity to attract international talent and to help place Catalonia's quantum information research groups among the world leaders.

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Science campus: Sustainability and... action!

The campus combines topics such as biodiversity conservation and agroecology with the audiovisual and film worlds.

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Educational innovation programs

Tàndem Schools

Tàndem Schools

The Tàndem Schools programme promotes collaboration between an educational centre and an institution in order to target the centre as part of an innovation process.

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PAE of the Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation

Educational Mentoring Programme (PAE)

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We offer extracurricular support for children and teenagers that enables them to achieve academic and personal success.

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Oms i de Prat

Oms i de Prat School

Oms i de Prat School is a publicly-subsidised private school that is part of the Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation and seeks to be a benchmark of the Foundation’s transformative education, with two tracks for students from age 3 to the last year of compulsory secondary school.

The educational community at Oms i de Prat is meeting the new educational challenges with stability, engagement, continuous training and a cooperative work culture.

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The Science Academy network

Fellows

La Pedrera Science Academy Fellows

If you have participated in a Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation science program, you are a La Pedrera Science Fellow!

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Discover all the programs of Science Academy

We encourage people with a calling for science

Mad for science

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We encourage people with a calling for science

Youth and Science

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We encourage people with a calling for science

Youth for Medicine

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We encourage people with a calling for science

BIYSC

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We encourage people with a calling for science

Nature Campus

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We share food-related knowledge with society

Science and Food Campus

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We support science

Alinyà Mountain university campus

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We support science

Exporecerca Jove Award

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We support science

Vanguardia Science Award

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We support science

Talents Programme

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We support science

Support for the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST)

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We innovate in education

Oms i de Prat School

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We help children and teenagers achieve educational success

Tàndem Schools

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We help children and teenagers achieve educational success

Educational Mentoring Programme (PAE)

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