Welcome to the Barcelona Knowledge Hub, the Southern European and Mediterranean Office of the Academia Europaea.
Our goal is to contribute to the consolidation of a genuine European area of research, education and innovation.
Cloister of the Casa de Convalescència, a part of the old Saint Paul’s Hospital (17th century), headquarters of the AE-BKH.
NEWS
BARCELONA HYPATIA EUROPEAN SCIENCE PRIZE
The AE-BKH is pleased to announce that Italian virologist Dr. Ilaria Capua, current Director of the “One Health” Center of Excellence at the Univeristy of Florida, has been selected as winner of the second edition of the Barcelona Hypatia European Science Prize, for her research career conducted at the highest international level, for her leadership in the promotion of open access to genetic information on emerging viruses, and for the social impact that she has made through her contributions to the multidisciplinary concept of “one health,” encompassing human, animal and environmental health.
BARCELONA SCIENCE PLAN
The AE Barcelona Knowledge Hub supports the Barcelona City Council in its #Cities4Science initiative, calling for increased EU funding for research and innovation.
The Barcelona Knowledge Hub of Academia Europaea (AE-BKH) expresses its full support for the #Cities4Science initiative led by the Barcelona City Council on social media, and it encourages leaders across Europe to join their voices and push for greater support of science.
NEW ON THE WEBSITE
“SYMBIOTIC LIFE”, A NEW AE-BKH DOCUMENTARY SERIES
“Symbiotic Life” is a new on-line initiative of the Academia Europaea-Barcelona Knowledge Hub (AE-BKH), fruit of its partnership with Science into Images, a scientific dissemination project led by biologist and science filmmaker Rubén Duro, who is also the Hub’s webmaster and social media manager.
This initiative consists of several short documentaries on different examples of symbiotic relationships existing in nature, presented in a visually striking format. These videos present rarely seen images of microscopic organisms and are of great academic and research value.
“BARCELONA DIALOGUE”ON-LINE SUMMER PROGRAMME
“Barcelona Dialogue” is an ongoing collaboration between Northeastern University (NU) in Boston, USA, and the Academia Europaea-Barcelona Knowledge Hub (AE-BKH) for the organisation of an annual summer programme. The main goal of this summer programme is to provide students with an immersion-based learning experience in the art, architecture and history of Barcelona, hands-on workshops and cultural visits, and a unique dialog with local creators, designers, and entrepreneurs.
COVID-19
The Barcelona Knowledge Hub is working remotely due to the temporary closure of the Institute for Catalan Studies, where our office is located. Questions and/or comments during this time may be sent to barcelona@acadeuro.org
To keep abreast of the latest information about this pandemic, you can access the websites of the World Health Organization (WHO), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, USA), the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Union by clicking on the corresponding organisation.
WEBMASTER AND SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
Rubén Duro
Updated September 23, 2020, at 16.43 h
