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Latest happenings in Outreach

NEWS

Latest happenings in Outreach

Nanoscience vermouth: bits of nanoscience just before lunch

The 10alamenos9 festival aims to bring nanoscience closer to society. Since confinement prevented the normal celebration of this festival, they decided to bring nanoscience to everyone's house with the cycle Nanoscience Vermouth (Vermú de nanociencia). Every Monday,...

ACIERTAS webinar: discover the power of photonics

ICFO teams up with the ACIERTAS (Science Learning by Collaborative Transversal Network) project, as they chose photonics as one of the emerging subjects of this year's edition. ICFO outreach team member Federica Beduini will talk about light as a fundamental tool in...

mSTEAM modules about photonics

ICFO partners with mSchools to develop classroom activities that spark interest in the potential of photonics by using mobile phones as a useful instruments to understand the world. The new modules about photonics are already available on the mSTEAM platform: more...

Kick-off of CARLA, the hub for careers in photonics

Coordinated by ICFO, a consortium of 11 partners gathered last week in Barcelona to kick-start this new initiative that aims, in coordination with industry and academia, to boost the numbers of students and young researchers pursuing careers in photonics, to encourage...

Coming soon…Eduball

Generating energy through team work while promoting science and sport. Can you imagine it? ICFO, together with Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera and the school in Oms i de Prat, have made it a reality. Stay tuned for more information, but meanwhile...check this out! OTHER...

ICFO launches the third edition of the Young Photonic Congress

ICFO has launched the third edition of the Young Photonics Congress, which will take place on 13 April 2018 at ICFO. This congress, which aims to bring together young scientists for their first scientific conference while introducing them to the scientific community,...

UNESCO endorses annual International Day of Light

ICFO, as co-founder and acting coordinator of the ECOP alliance (European Centres for Outreach in Photonics), will participate and have an acting role on the steering committee of the new International Day of Light, to be proclaimed at the General Conference of UNESCO...

PHABLABS 4.0 for Photonics

PHABLABS 4.0 was created with the goal of achieving a lasting, positive impact on the way photonics is integrated into the rapidly expanding ecosystem of European Fab Labs and Makerslabs, resulting in a larger and better skilled photonics workforce with superior...