The Group 9 Universities is sharing “The scientific monologues show” through YouTube next September 25 at 20:00h
The show seeks to promote the European Researchers Night, which was delayed two months due to the pandemic.
This shows exists as part of the European project granted to the consortium composed by eight universities and coordinated from Oviedo.
The Group 9 Universities (G-9) has organized a show coming on September 25. The show precedes and promotes the European Researchers Night, and can be attended remotely through social media. “The scientific monologues show” will offer a combination of science and humour, as well as research-related songs. The performance will be broadcasted live through YouTube starting at 20:00 from the Zaragoza Auditorium.
The event takes place as part of the European project S-TEAM, granted by the European Commission to the consortium created by the Universities belonging to the G-9. The members of this consortium are: Cantabria, Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura, Islas Baleares, Oviedo, País Vasco, Public University of Navarra and Zaragoza, and count on the support of the University of La Rioja. The S-TEAM project, coordinated by the University of Oviedo will take place next November 27, two months later than usual, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“The scientific monologues show”
The pre-event, promoted by the University of Zaragoza, will be composed of 8 monologues, each one lasting 4 to 5 minutes, themed around different scientific fields, such as: math, physics, chemistry, economic sciences, and geology, all of them filled with humour as well as science. The monologues will take place alongside sketches and musical performances that will reference key moments in the history of science.
The monologues will present their topics in a fun and light-hearted way, in order to incite the public’s curiosity, and will focus on topics like the relationship between math and gambling, how our brain stores and processes words, the “invisible” uses of minerals, how does the human eye sees colour, the roll of sustainable chemistry, the mistakes of statistical thinking and how they can condemn the accused, how an economical theory can help us find a stable couple, and how one of the best “gaffes” in the twentieth century science is still relevant today.
The monologues that will be represented are:
Blanca Bauluz: “the importance of family”
Concha Aldea: “White is not a color”
Víctor Manero: “to bet or not to bet”
Luis Vicente Casaló: “You aren’t Brad Pitt, But you are not THAT bad”.
Mamen Horno: “Words inside the Brain”
Elisabet Pires: “When chemistry fell in love with the ODS”
Chelo Ferreira: “The prosecutor’s fallacy”
Fernando Bartolomé: “Wrong Einstein”
About RISArchers
The group was created in 2015 by ten people, after the 1st Scientific Monologues Workshop, organized by the “Unidad de Cultura Científica” from the University of Zaragoza, sponsored by the “Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT)”, and directed by the actress Encarni Corrales. Five editions later, the number of scientists associated with RISArchers has risen to 36, with a wide representation of scientific fields and themes. The group is often requested for acting in bars, high schools, and congresses, as well as official events, awards ceremonies, and anniversaries.
Their monologues have been represented in locations not usually associated with science, both inside and outside Zaragoza. These include places such as: Teathers and cabaret, such as “El Plata” and the Filarmónica in Oviedo, the Zuera Penitentiary, and even the Central Market. In 2018, they received the Third Millennium Award from the “Heraldo de Aragón” to science popularization.
With this show, the group of researchers from the Public University of Zaragoza seeks to continue with its core mission: To promote science and bring it closer to a different public, through unusual formats and locations, but which can help the citizenship to realize the value of research and knowledge.
A collaborative project
The project to celebrate the European Researchers Night (ERN) together was conceived within the G-9 Research Sectoral’s Scientific Culture Workgroup, in collaboration with the Office of European Projects, and it represents one of the firsts collaborative projects from this group with EU funding.
The main goals of this project are to highlight the figure of the researcher to the general public, to make people more aware of the nature and benefits of their job and to promote the choice of a scientific career amongst students, overcoming gender barriers.
The S-TEAM European project is funded by the European Commission within the Marie Sktodowska-Curie European Research Nights actions, from the EU’s Horizon 2020 program for research and innovation under the grant agreement number 954912.
Simultaneous Celebration in 370 cities:
The European Commission destined 8M euros for this announcement, and a hundred projects were presented, amongst which six Spanish proposals were selected. The European Researchers Night, which will be celebrated in more than 370 cities around the continent, is financed by the European commission under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) initiative, to promote scientific careers in Europe, and is framed within the EU’s Horizon 2020 program for research and innovation.
Images from the RISArchers group as well as video are attached:
Link for 30-minute video with songs by David Angulo and Marisol Aznar, taken in the Auditorium in 2017.
https://ucc.unizar.es/taller-de-monologos/el-show-de-los-monologos-cientificos
Video of monologues: https://ucc.unizar.es/taller-de-monologos/videos
Link to trailer for 10 monologues from 2015, taken in “El Sótano Mágico”
https://ucc.unizar.es/taller-de-monologos/risarches-trailer-el-sotano-magico
Contact info:
Carmina Puyod: 660 010 349
Coordinator, Unit of Scientific Culture
University of Zaragoza
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