Spain
Pompeu Fabra University
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Scientists and journalists share the task of spreading science in a world where people is more and more interested in technology, genetics, nature or other science subjects.
The researcher and marine biologist Pere Renom gave an upset to his life to dedicate himself to the scientific spreading in a program called ‘Quèquicom' in the Catalonian public television. He swap his lab coat and the laboratory for the micro and cameras and, although his new work imposes daily challenges to him, he feels well with his new public personality.
THE PROGRAM
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‘Quèquicom' is a TV program broadcast every Wednesday night (22:00h) at the Catalonian channel C33. The aim of the program is to give a basic knowledge to the audience in order to understand the science related to the society and making the communication between scientists and people easier. They also try to get people more interested on science and to get they used to it as a way of understanding the reality and as a way to live better.
Every week three reporters introduce public to several aspects of health, nature, technology and basic sciences and the host does different demonstrations and experiments from the set. The program has different sections which includes: Scientists and Experts and their discoveries and inventions, “popular science” as seasons, field evolution or farm animals, and also a cartoon of a little girl explaining some curiosities and science details. |
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The program team
Toni Mestres, Bachelor of Physics Sciences.
Miquel Piris, Bachelor of Journalism.
Samantha Vall, Bachelor of Journalism.
Pere Renom, Bachelor of Biology
www.tvcatalunya.com/ptvcatalunya/tvcPrograma.jsp?idint=20163049 |
PIONEERS OF SCIENCE COMMUNICATION |
Felix Rodríguez de la Fuente, ‘The man and the earth'
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Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Medicine lawyer and PhD in odontology, had already loved the nature since his childhood. His life was always around three big concerns: animals, the defense of the nature and the origin and destiny of the humanity. But first of all, Rodríguez de la Fuente was great communicating science. He was successful in all means: radio, press, cinema and television. He reached the biggest success with a few very popular television series where he showed how animals live at Spanish countryside. ‘Planeta Azul' (Blue Planet) and ‘El hombre y la tierra' (The man and the earth) were the most popular. In Spain there was undoubtedly a change in the social perception of environment thanks to Rodriguez de la Fuente www.felixrodriguezdelafuente.com |
Eduard Punset, a science communicator who cames from humanities
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Eduardo Punset Casals (Barcelona, 1936) is a lawyer, economist but also a scientific communicator. He is the director and presenter of the program of scientific disclosure ‘Redes' (Networks) of the second channel of Spanish TV, president of the producer of scientific audiovisual contents ‘Smartplanet' and author of various books whose main objective is the disclosure of the scientific knowledge. He is responsible for the only scientific program in all the national Spanish television network, besides the local channels. Although ‘Redes' is broadcast very late at night, it has got an important and loyal audience. Eduard Punset tries every week to spread knowledge and shows that science sought to reflect the inevitable fusion of the knowledge — instead of its specialization— to planetary scale .
www.rtve.es/tve/b/redes |
Carl Sagan, communicating science to the world
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Television is one of the most powerful means to popularize science. Carl Sagan played a key role in this important field. He was a remarkable astronomer and astrophysicist who contributed to most of the unmanned space missions that explored our solar system. Moreover he helped people to understand science thanks to ‘Cosmos. A personal voyage'. It was a television series that he narrated, co-wrote and co-produced. ‘Cosmos' covered a wide range of scientific subjects and was first broadcast in 1980. Since then it has been broadcast in 60 countries and seen by more than 600 million people according to NASA Office of Space Science. He was one of the most effective communicators the world has recently know. Through his series was able to introduce his audience to some of the most complicated scientific issues. The clarity and simplicity of his explanations is his best legacy.
www.carlsagan.com |
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