UABDIVULGA to receive National Prize in Scientific Communication

Rector Margarita Arboix will receive the prize on 15 October in a ceremony held for the National Research Prizes 2017. The event will take place at the National Theatre of Catalonia and will be presided by President Quim Torra.

11/10/2018

The awards ceremony will take place on Monday 15 October at 7 p.m. and will be presided by the President of Catalonia Quim Torra and conducted by journalist Laura Rosel.

The National Research Prizes, organised by the Government of Catalonia and the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation (FCRI), foster social recognition of the science and activities conducted by researchers, patrons, entrepreneurs and communicators.

As announced this past December, the online journal UABDivulga was awarded the National Research Prize 2017 in the category of Scientific Communication. The National Research Prize 2017 will also be awarded to biocomputer specialist Roderic Guigó, coordinator of the Bioinformatics and Genomics Programme at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) and lecturer in Bioinformatics at the UPF; in the category of Young Talent, the prize will go to Italian astrophysicist Nanda Rea, staff scientist of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) at the Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC), specialised in the study of magnetars, neutron stars with the strongest magnetic field existing in the universe; the TV3 Marathon was awarded the prize in the category of Scientific Patronage for its work during the past 25 years in raising funds for biomedical research and raising social awareness of severe and chronic illnesses; and finally, the prize in the category of R&D Public-Private Partnership went to the collaborative research platform on mobility Cooperative Automotive Research Network (CARNET), launched by SEAT, Volkswagen Group Research and the UPC.