This autumn, Barcelona is organising the 4th Edition of the City and Science Biennial (Biennal Ciutat i Ciència), a consolidated event that was born in 2019. For 5 days, between 18 and 23 November, the city will once again be bustling with dissemination activities around science. It will be an event that will take place, simultaneously, for the second consecutive year also in Madrid and that later, between 29 November and 7 December, will also extend to Mexico within the framework of the Guadalajara International Book Fair, which will have Barcelona as a guest city. 

In the Catalan capital, a dozen spaces will offer exhibitions, workshops, conferences, shows, experiments or screenings that will be open to all audiences. The topics that will be discussed will focus on frontier research (everything that has not been done and is therefore innovative) and its applications for the social and environmental challenges that are already being posed for the future. But the main area will be quantum mechanics, since this year marks the centenary of the birth of this new discipline, and the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, organized by UNESCO, is celebrated.

There will be very prominent speakers on this scientific area, both local and international, who will group the dissemination events into four much more specific sections: the creation and evolution of this new discipline, changes in information, its ethics and morals, and everything it can offer in the future. Among other participants, the UB professor José Ignacio Latorre, the American philosopher Alyssa Ney and the Manresa native Ignacio Cirac, who is one of the world's leading exponents of quantum information theory, will speak. 

Barcelona will focus this Biennial on the surroundings of El Born and the entire framework that forms part of the Ciutadella Knowledge Hub, a key project of the Strategic Plan for Science and Innovation, to position the capital as a benchmark for innovation on a global scale in science and technology. There will be events within this context at the Hivernacle or the UPC Campus, and beyond at the Convent of Sant Agustí (on Comerç Street), the Canòdrom of the Meridiana, the Can Déu Civic Center (located in the Les Corts neighborhood), the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, the SGAE or the Cinemes Maldà.

The Biennial in its last edition, between both capitals, received almost 15.000 people. This year in Barcelona alone, more than sixty activities and almost 150 participants are expected. Many of the events will also be aimed, especially, at university students, young researchers and different research centers. 

Will you miss the Biennial? 

Come to the different spaces and immerse yourself in this science that is closer to home!