Science for all-comers

From 6 to 19 November the Madrid R&D foundation called Fundación madri+d is putting on the Madrid´s Science Week (Semana de la Ciencia) to bring the work of scientists and researchers to wider notice among the whole community of people interested in science and curious about the breakthroughs of recent years.

One of the organizing entities of this Science Week is the Tres Cantos infants- and primary-school called Colegio de Educación Infantil y Primaria Ciudad de Nejapa. Specifically for this week, its 6th-grade pupils have launched three scientific activities focusing on sustainable development.

GMV has collaborated in one of this school’s three research projects, namely “Applicability of space technology for the UN’s Sustainable Development Targets”, holding a seminar addressing such aspects as the monitoring and forecasting capacity of events of interest occurring on the Earth, using observation satellites and technologies such as Big Data and Machine Learning.

The school’s pupils have conducted diverse studies using satellite images to analyze different characteristics of various cities around the world, allowing them to draw conclusions about these cities’ level of development. The study concludes with the identification of initiatives and improvements that will help to meet some of the millennium goals of reducing poverty and inequality or working towards sustainable communities and cities.

Over 3000 scientists and 600 institutions will be taking part in this Science Week, held throughout the whole region of Madrid. This seventeenth Week boasts over 1100 activities, all of them free, to give us all a much better idea of today’s science and technology.