Science Academy

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.

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.

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. 

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. 
 

Science and Food Campus

APPLICATIONS OPEN

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

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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.

Science campus: Sustainability and... action!

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

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.

Educational Mentoring Programme (PAE)

APPLICATIONS OPEN!

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

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.

La Pedrera Science Academy Fellows

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