Jot Down Science

For further information, go to the project website:

ciencia.jotdown.es

Annual event organized by Jot Down

DIPC has been collaborating for years with the cultural magazine Jot Down as a sponsor of its science section through the popular science contest.

Jot Down Ciencia Event 2024

This year we are pleased to organize the eleventh edition of the Jot Down Science event, which will also focus on hominids on May 3 and 4 at the Tabakalera International Center for Contemporary Culture in Donostia/San Sebastián, with the special collaboration of Kutxa Fundazioa.

The program will propose different formats with lectures, interviews and round tables with leading researchers in the field of paleoanthropology, archeology and human evolution. The program will also include complementary activities designed for children and families.

Check the program of activities

Jot Down Ciencia Contest 2024

This year, the theme selected for the contest was "hominids" and four participation modalities have been established:

Best popular science essay
Best science fiction narrative text
Best scientific illustration
Best scientific photograph

The prize in each category will be 1,000 euros. The winning texts will be published online, specifically, the popular essays in Jot Down and the narrative texts in Mercurio magazine. The winning illustration and photograph (or series of photographs) will be published in Jot Down's print magazines (Jot Down or Jot Down kids) and/or in Mercurio magazine. The finalists will receive a prize of a one-year subscription to Jot Down + Mercurio Magazine and a set of books, as well as the publication of the texts.

The deadline for submitting entries is April 14.

The competition is sponsored by Donostia International Physics Center, the Canfranc Underground Laboratory, Laboratorium Museoa, with the collaboration of the University of Seville, Jot Down, Mercurio Cultural Magazine and Next Door Editores.

Toda la información sobre el concurso en la web ciencia.jotdown.es

Publications

During these years, the DIPC and Jot Down have jointly published the books El dilema Turing y otros textos científicos and Cañones de wolframio y otros textos científicos, which include some of the most outstanding works among those presented.