More than 3,400 researchers are bringing science to citizens in the streets of Andalusia this Friday, September 26
The European Researchers' Night is celebrated today, September 26, in Andalusia with more than 3,400 participating researchers and a program of 993 outreach activities spread across the eight provinces. This event, which in 2025 celebrates its fourteenth edition, is supported in the community by the University Counseling, Research and Innovation and its coordination depends on the Descbre Foundation, in which the Ministry itself also participates.
European in scope and launched in 2012 in Andalusia, this event is dedicated to scientific dissemination and aims to bring society closer to the benefits of the advancement of science, as well as its impact on daily life. It also constitutes an opportunity to awaken scientific vocations in young people and enhance the research career as a professional outlet. It is estimated that this year more than 80,000 people may participate in the planned events, thus consolidating itself in the most important simultaneous event in the Andalusian scientific field in recent years and in one of the largest in Spain.
In the 2025 schedule, as in other past editions, playful and didactic actions are combined. Guided tours, workshops, demonstrations, theatrical performances, monologues or micro-stories are some of the proposals designed for this year. In addition, the initiative called ‘Open Researchers 2024-25’ will hold activities in emblematic enclaves of the cities where researchers will bring their work and their concerns to citizens in a different way. Of the total number of actions, some 64 are carried out in advance throughout the month of September in the eight Andalusian provinces, while 47 are online.
Some of the community's most iconic enclaves serve as the backdrop for all of these initiatives. This is the case of the Rambla Federico García Lorca and Delegation of the Andalusian Government (Almería), the Plaza del Rey (San Fernando in Cádiz), the Gardens of the Rectorate of the University of Córdoba and the Patios of Córdoba (Córdoba), the Paseo del Salón de Granada or the Avenida Bulevar de las Artes y las Ciencias (Huelva). The Plaza de El Corte Inglés, the Museum of Jaén and the Old School of Teaching (Jaén) have also been selected, the Paseo del Parque, the Eduardo Ocón Campus and the Rectorate of the University of Málaga (Málaga) and the Casa de la Ciencia, the Rectorate of the University of Seville and the Uruguay Pavilion (Seville). In general, the events will begin in the early afternoon and will last until almost midnight.
The planned schedule for each province can be found in the following address: https://lanochedelosinvestigadores.fundaciondescubre.es/.
Cancer, climate change or smart cities
In this edition, many of the initiatives will focus on the main missions of Horizon Europe as defined by the European Commission: cancer, adaptation to change climate, including social transformation, water and oceans or smart, climate-neutral cities, as well as soil and food health.
These missions are defined as a portfolio of interdisciplinary measures based on R&D with the aim of reaching an inspiring but quantifiable goal, with a great impact on society. All of them will contribute to the objectives of the European Green Deal, the European Plan to Fight Cancer and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Support from scientific institutions
The programme has been designed jointly by various scientific institutions based in Andalusia, coordinated by the Discover Foundation. These are the nine Andalusian public universities (Almería, Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Málaga, Pablo de Olavide and Seville); the Fundación Pública Progreso y Salud (through the Biobank and IAVANTE); the IMGEMA-Real Botanical Garden of Córdoba and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). At the same time, Radio and Television of Andalusia, the Andalusian Institute for Agricultural, Fisheries, Food and Production Research and Training Ecological (IFAPA) and Loyola University are strategic partners of the project and collaborate closely in its development.
The European Researchers' Night is a European scientific dissemination project promoted by the European Commission within the Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions of the Horizon Europe programme that takes place simultaneously in almost 400 European cities from 2005.
Source: Ministry of University, Research and Innovation