The IIS Aragón present at the V Specialized Journalism Course of Alcañiz 2023

More than 30 journalists and scientific communicators of national reference will meet to participate in the V Alcañiz Specialized Journalism Course, 'Communication and science. The essential disseminators'. Of the Thursday, August 31 to Friday, September 1 Experts with extensive experience in their fields will share conferences aimed at journalists, disseminators and lovers of science and communication in all their aspects. From different perspectives and supports, They will contribute their experiences and offer the keys to current and future communication through the possibilities offered by this prestigious course, promoted by the Teruel Summer University-Antonio Gargallo Foundation and directed by journalist Eva Defior, director of Grupo La COMARCA. 

Communication on topics linked to science is one of the main challenges for journalists and disseminators. To answer how to create attractive and rigorous content Professionals of recognized national and international prestige will meet in Alcañiz in the fifth edition of this event, which has already become a national reference and is an attractive bridge proposal between the end of summer and the beginning of the course. 

Television, radio, digital and paper newspapers, podcasts, social networks, essays, monologues, institutions and museums, companies, How is science communicated? For twenty hours, attendees will come into close contact with the speakers from the proximity offered by the Bajo Aragonese capital. The CV of all the participants is an indisputable endorsement and their commitment to participate in this event, a clear example of vocation for a profession that day after day builds critical opinion, reflection, knowledge and entertainment in our society.

The course 'Communication and science. The essential disseminators' is open to professionals, students and those interested in communicating a wide range of topics that cover the scientific area itself. From astrophysics to the environment, through health or archaeology, news from these fields of work are increasingly of interest to society, as demonstrated by the work of the professors at this year's event. What risks does Artificial Intelligence entail? To what extent are glaciers retreating? Are there risks of a new pandemic? What health habits are harming us? In which cities is the most polluted? What is the background of the debate on renewable energies? Why is there a drought? 

Representation of IIS Aragón

Alberto J. Schuhmacher, ARAID researcher at IIS Aragón, head of the Molecular Oncology group at IIS Aragón, will participate on Friday, September 1, in one of the tables of this course.

18.45 'Conversation with young Aragonese scientists. Achievements, challenges and future dreams for a land of talent.'

Moderator Eva Defior, director of the Journalism Course.
Participate ALBERTO JIMENEZ SCHUMACHER, doctor in biochemistry. Head of the Molecular Oncology Group of the Health Institute of Aragon, IGNACIO AGUILO, doctor in microbiology. Researcher in the GENMICO group of Unizar and ANA BELÉN GRIÑON, doctor in astrophysics. She works in solar physics at the Rosseland Center for Solar Physics center of excellence at the University of Oslo (Norway.