We design scientific programs to inspire, activate curiosity, and stimulate critical thinking from an early age.
We work with primary and secondary students and educators to spark a passion for discovery, questioning, and understanding the world shaping the people who will drive the science and society of the future, while actively strengthening the role of women in science.
Activating the Next Generation of Scientific Thinking
Our methodology fosters curiosity, judgment, and creative problem-solving, preparing young minds to engage with real-world challenges.
We integrate science and creativity through disciplines such as art, music, cooking, and movement, expanding how students observe, think, and make decisions.
We also train educators, equipping them with new tools, perspectives, and methodologies so they can continue inspiring and activating scientific vocations long after the program ends.
How We Work
Hybridising, Experiencing, and Co-creating
Our programs are grounded in a clear conviction: creativity is inherent to scientific research.
It is essential for formulating hypotheses and designing original experiments, just as science provides solid frameworks that channel and strengthen creative expression.
That’s why we work with an unconventional and holistic approach, where science is lived, explored, and built collectively.
How we do it:
- Hybridising science and creativity: We combine scientific exploration with disciplines such as art, music, cooking, or ballet. This helps students understand that science is deeply connected to life, culture, and context — making learning more meaningful, relevant, and accessible.
- Creating experiences through play and co-creation: Learning goes deeper when it is active, collaborative, and experiential. We design activities based on play and co-creation that allow scientific principles to be discovered through direct experimentation and collective work. This learning by doing approach applies to both students and educators.
- Learning oriented around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Our programs integrate the Sustainable Development Goals, helping learners understand major global challenges and use scientific and creative thinking to propose innovative solutions. In doing so, we foster responsibility, judgment, and global citizenship from an early age.
Our Core Science Education Programs
1. Science & Creativity in Childhood - Play Centres & Rural Schools
This program aims to transform ludotecas (play centres) and rural schools into vibrant spaces of exploration and learning, nurturing children's natural curiosity and expanding their understanding of the world. It capacitates educators and facilitators to become active dynamizers of creativity and innovative thinking in childhood through playful science and adapted innovation methodologies.
Our Approach in Practice
We facilitate hands-on, experiential learning through specially curated activities:
- Designing Experiments with Everyday Materials: Utilising readily available and recycled materials (e.g., plastic bottles, cardboard tubes) to conduct simple, safe experiments. This cultivates ingenuity and creative problem-solving while promoting accessibility and sustainability. Examples include "The Power of Soap!", "Like Water and Oil!" (density), "The Teabag That Wanted to Fly" (air density).
- Connecting Science to Artistic Expression: Each scientific exploration is linked to artistic activities like painting, drawing, storytelling, and movement. For instance, after observing "Colours that Walk" (capillarity), children can paint abstract designs with the mixed colours using their fingers or brushes, or "dance" their colours on paper. After the "Rainbow in a Glass" (density) experiment, they can draw the rainbow layers and create a story for each colour. These activities develop fine motor skills and creative expression through direct manipulation and imaginative engagement.
- Fostering Critical Thinking and Safety: We guide children in questioning, observing, and describing, encouraging critical thinking. Safety and inclusion are paramount, ensuring all children can participate meaningfully in a secure and motivating environment.
2. SuperNano
SuperNano is an innovative Educational program designed to inspire vocations in all students within the exciting field of science, with a special focus on Nanotechnology.
It targets secondary school students and teachers, focusing on making complex scientific concepts accessible and engaging for everyone. While the program is inclusive of all, it maintains an intentional focus on making girls the protagonists and championing their pivotal role in scientific innovation, aligning with our broader purpose to foster the empowerment and visibility of the role of women in science.
Our Approach in Practice
- Championing Inclusivity, Empowering Women in Science: A core aim of SuperNano is to inspire and empower women in science, directly addressing gender bias in scientific fields. By featuring strong female protagonists and promoting diverse participation, we aim to show all students, boys and girls, the immense contributions women make to science, inspiring a new generation of scientists.
This methodology has been successfully applied to inspire teenagers to create superheroes with nanotechnology-based powers in past projects.
Program Structure: SuperNano consists of several engaging actions:
- Teacher Training: Providing training and a formative guide for educators in Nanotechnology and Creativity.
- Student Workshops: Hands-on Nanotechnology workshops where students develop their superheroine concepts.
- SuperNano Festival: An event for students to exhibit their created superheroines.
Our Impact
A Glimpse into Past Science Programs
We are proud of our history of delivering impactful science educational programs that spark curiosity and foster innovation.
Here are examples of projects that embodies our commitment to inspiring young minds:
- Fostering Scientific Passion in 650 kids: A program with a series of 12 workshops delivered during Science Week in Barcelona, to bring nanoscience closer to 650 primary and secondary students from various schools. The project aimed to inspire scientific vocations and enhance students' capacity to create solutions through creativity and innovation methodologies, such as Design Thinking.
- Primary Explorers: Unleashing Nano-Imagination Through Art: Students in primary education participated in an introduction to the world of Science and Nanotechnology. Through creative techniques, they expressed the concepts learned through art.
- Visualising the Challenge of Promoting Female Talent in Science: This project featured the exhibition The (IN)VISIBLE INGENUITY - Women and Technology: Past, Present and Future. The exhibition was designed to highlight the often (in)visible difficulties faced in promoting female talent within the technological field. It was held coinciding with the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
- #CSIC4GIRLS: Online Workshops Inspiring & Empowering Girls in Science: This project involved providing consultancy and training in the design and execution of online scientific workshops for CSIC (Spanish National Research Council). Conducted as part of the CSIC4GIRLS project, these workshops engaged over 60 girls during Science Week, with the specific objective of fostering scientific vocations in girls.
The project was effectively carried out through co-creation sessions for workshop design, training in creativity and play techniques for knowledge acquisition, instruction in online execution tools, and the provision of a comprehensive formative guide.
