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One Health, convergence of three paths
Health, health and health. Thus we could briefly define one of the most influential concepts on global health of the last 20 years.
In order to announce how interdependent human, animal and environmental health are, on March 4, 2021, the round table “One Health: one planet, one health” was held. This meeting, organized and moderated by the students of the 26th edition of the Master in Scientific, Medical and Environmental Communication of the UPF-BSM, had an audience of around fifty people.
CONCISE presents the results of its research and concludes that people’s trust in information sources is a key factor to improve science communication
The CONCISE project, coordinated by the ScienceFlows group of the University of Valencia, has presented the main conclusions of the analysis of the data collected from the citizen consultations held in 2019. The results of the research show that citizens demand that universities and public research centres acquire a more relevant role in the dissemination of science.
The CONCISE project presents the results of an investigation on the perception of science among European citizens
The CONCISE project, coordinated by the ScienceFlows research group of the University of Valencia, presents this Friday, January 22, between 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. and by telematic means, the conclusions of an investigation on the perception of science carried out from the data obtained in five citizen consultations. These took place at the end of 2019 in five cities in as many European countries: Valencia, Lodz (Poland), Vicenza (Italy), Lisbon (Portugal) and Trnava (Slovakia).
Mario Viciosa: “It is not enough to tell the last hour, you have to create critical citizenship”
Mario Viciosa has been one of the guests at the X Campus Gutenberg – CosmoCaixa in the round table “The lie-hunters: Fake News and fact checkers”. In this interview he talks about fact checking in the field of scientific communication and gives some clues to understand how hoaxes circulate.
Aging is a blind spot in natural selection
Why do we age? Why do we die? These questions are one of humanity’s greatest challenges. We can see it in religions, which have created different justifications for death; or the large number of myths about a Fountain of Youth.
Professors and researchers from CCS-UPF participate as authors in the book “Communicating Science: a Global Perspective”
Professors and researchers from the Center for Science, Communication and Society Studies (CCS-UPF) have participated in two chapters of the book “Communicating Science: a Global Perspective”, which documents the global emergence of modern scientific communication in 39 countries of the world.