EXPOCIENCIA 2019, todo un éxito un año más

More than 5,000 people visited the Science Park on Saturday 25 May to celebrate the great science and innovation festival of the University of Valencia and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), which has the support of the Generalitat Valenciana.

A volume of public that has once again demonstrated the stability of Expociencia, already consolidated as one of the main initiatives aimed at sharing the scientific spirit with people and stimulating scientific vocations.

The Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA) organised an extensive programme of games and activities: Tus bacterias y Tú, Física con Golosinas, Fabrica tu yogur, De la masa al pan, Ciencia en la cocina: El misterio de las esperificaciones, Enzimas y alimentos: Experiment with your saliva the power of amylase and Microorganisms and food.

In this eleventh edition of Expociencia, visitors were able to enjoy a hundred or so recreational proposals on science and innovation. In addition to the activities that the research institutes located in the Science Park (PCUV) and the Higher Technical School of Engineering (ETSE) offer each year, the festival has had the participation of companies from the Park, different centres, departments and entities of the University of Valencia (Botanical Garden, Clíniques de la Universitat-Fundació Lluís Alcanyís, Museu d'Història Natural de la Universitat, etc.), as well as different public and private entities external to the academic institution.

Different associations and NGOs, the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències and the Instituto de Tecnologia Química (ITQ-UPV/CSIC), among others, have also joined this edition.