The 99th ICREA Colloquium ‘Evaluation of research and researchers & creativity’
Speakers: ICREA Research Professors Genoveva Martí, from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB), and Stephan Roche, from the Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2)
When: 22nd of March 2022, 18:00h
Where: Zoom & Auditorium FCRi, Passeig de Lluís Companys, 23, 08010 Barcelona
Abstract:
In 2005, Jorge E. Hirsch proposed the h-number to measure the productivity and impact of a scientist, opening the search for further refined figures of merit to classify researchers and somehow quantify their “creativity”. This Colloquium, aims at overviewing some aspects of this conundrum: to which extent is creativity measurable? And how commitments and initiatives driven by the DORA declaration can enable fair assessment and stimulation of the scientific creativity of young generations?
The ICREA colloquia are a great way to learn about remote fields of research from our best experts. We usually have two speakers, who offer their opinions on the same subject from different angles. They are open to all ICREAs and their guests.
Workshop ‘Hauria de ser directa la democràcia?’
ICREA Research Professor Santiago Zabala and Prof. Josep Ramoneda organize the workshop ‘Should democracy be direct?’
The event will be held on the 16th and 17th of February 2022. Please click here for further information.
Webinar ‘Back to the Future: A Multidisciplinary Evaluation of Catalan Politics of Identity-Building since 1978' (The 98th ICREA Colloquium)
Speakers: ICREA Research Professor Matthias M. Tischler, from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), and Dr. Daniel Wimmer, from the University of Applied Sciences in Würzburg-Schweinfurt (FHWS)
When: 25th of January 2022, 18:00 h
Where: Zoom
Abstract:
The colloquium offers two papers of 30 min contrasting the scientific/educative and the social/political developments of Catalonia since 1978 with the common, but multi-disciplinary focus on strategies of identity building in the Catalan society of the post-Franco period. While Tischler’s paper will deal with Catalan medievalism in the mirror of national and international large scale projects since the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and scientific congresses and exhibitions since the 1980s, Wimmer’s paper will be engaged in the more recent developments of Catalan public and private education, media activities, and literary production between ‘nationalism’ and ‘globalism’. The common point of both papers will be an analysis of the risks and chances of shaping Catalonia’s future as a ‘proper nation’ within the networks of European and global scientific research and socio-political identity building.
The ICREA colloquia are a great way to learn about remote fields of research from our best experts. We usually have two speakers, who offer their opinions on the same subject from different angles. They are open to all ICREAs and their guests.
Webinar ‘COVID-19 and children: Understanding child-derived transmission to design re-schooling recommendations' (The 97th ICREA Colloquium)
Speakers: ICREA Research Professor Quique Bassat, from the Institut de Salut Global de Barcelona (ISGlobal), and Prof. Clara Prats, from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
When: 9th of November, 18:00 h
Where: Zoom
Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected very mildly children and teenagers, with -fortunately- very little severe disease and deaths. However, the indirect consequences of the pandemic have been extraordinarily harsh for the youngest ones, having suffered the strictest and longest lockdown, something that has led to educational challenges and in many cases profound mental health consequences. One of the reasons for such an unequal treatment of children lies on the initial belief (no longer valid) that children could act as superspreaders of the virus, as it occurs with other respiratory viruses.
In this talk, Clara Prats (physicist and modeler of infectious diseases) and Quique Bassat (pediatrician and epidemiologist) will dialogue regarding the research that was needed to assess and evaluate transmission to and from children, and the role kids have played during this pandemic. This will also include a debate on whether vaccination of younger children will be needed, in the current epidemiological context, and when we think masks and other preventive measures can be relaxed in schools (and elsewhere).
The ICREA colloquia are a great way to learn about remote fields of research from our best experts. We usually have two speakers, who offer their opinions on the same subject from very different angles. They are open to all ICREAs and their guests.
