City and Science Biennial 2025

We are waiting for you at the City and Science Biennial 2025!

The fourth edition of the City and Science Biennial will take place simultaneously in Barcelona and Madrid between November 18 to 23, 2025. And with a special edition of science programming within the framework of the Guadalajara International Book Fair between November 29 and December 7, 2025.

Highlights

The 4th City and Science Biennial presented
The event programs 130 activities in Barcelona, Madrid and Mexico to bring the quantum revolution closer to citizens.
Barcelona reaffirms its leadership in frontier research within the framework of the City and Science Biennial
The event will place knowledge at the center of public debate and will focus on cutting-edge research, with quantum mechanics as its central theme.
The City and Science Biennial 2025 is approaching! (November 18 to 23)
The event, in this new edition, will be held simultaneously in Barcelona and Madrid.
The fourth edition of the City and Science Biennial Will focus on the impact of quantum technologies
This morning the event was presented, which will take place between November 18 and 23, 2025 and will be held simultaneously in Barcelona and Madrid.
Biennial 2023, streamed recording

The videos of some of the activities in case you missed them or if you want to relive some of the debates.

From 18 to 23 November

BARCELONA and MADRID

From November 29 to December 7

This edition, also in MEXICO

Thematic axes

This Biennial invites you to reflect on the fact of living and relating to the environment from different thematic axes.

The essentials

A tour through some of the activities of this Biennial that you can't miss.

Consult the full programme

The (quantum) information is power

Quantum Sensing Infrastructures. Deep Underground Architectures for Spectral Matter
Tue 18 Nov

00:00 - 23:00h

1 El Born. History Museum of Barcelona
Observe, destroy, learn

Film Essay on Deafblindness
Consult every day and hour

1 El Born. History Museum of Barcelona
Observe, destroy, learn

Luci, Nameless and Memoryless
Consult every day and hour

1 El Born. History Museum of Barcelona
The revolution of ideas

Probable Drawings
Consult every day and hour

1 El Born. History Museum of Barcelona
The (quantum) information is power

Quantum Chaos Set
Consult every day and hour

1 El Born. History Museum of Barcelona
The revolution of ideas

Urbetronic
Consult every day and hour

1 El Born. History Museum of Barcelona
Observe, destroy, learn

Nat Prize of the Barcelona Museum of Natural Sciences
Tue 18 Nov

18:30 - 20:30h

2 The Greenhouse in Ciutadella Park
The revolution of ideas

Stage Performance: Science Fiction
Consult every day and hour

6 Canòdrom
The revolution of ideas

Masterclass with Julio Rojas: Fiction in science fiction audio
Wed 19 Nov

19:00 - 20:00h

Societat General d'Autors i Editors (SGAE)
Inhabiting the limits

Quantum on a Pole
Wed 19 Nov

21:00 - 22:00h

1 El Born. History Museum of Barcelona
The (quantum) information is power

Innovate and entrepreneurship in the quantum world
Fri 21 Nov

11:00 - 12:00h

1 El Born. History Museum of Barcelona
Observe, destroy, learn

Exploring Quantum Physics to Understand AI: Current Realities and Alternatives
Fri 21 Nov

18:00 - 19:00h

6 Canòdrom
The revolution of ideas

Quantum night tide
Fri 21 Nov

20:00 - 21:00h

1 El Born. History Museum of Barcelona
Observe, destroy, learn

Quantum chess
Consult every day and hour

1 El Born. History Museum of Barcelona
The (quantum) information is power

Geopolitics in the Second Quantum Revolution
Sat 22 Nov

11:00 - 12:00h

1 El Born. History Museum of Barcelona
Consult the full programme

+ Biennal

Activities organised by local facilities, cultural centres and other entities that contribute every day to bringing scientific knowledge closer to the public.