VISAVET | Scientific Summer Campus 2010

Scientific Summer Campus 2010

The Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) and the Ministry of Education have carried out the Scientific Summer Campus to arise and promote the interest in science, technology and innovation, for the students of the fourth course of ESO (Secondary Mandatory Education) and the first year of Bachillerato (preuniversitary first course).

Scientific Summer Campus 2010 activity (Img: Carlos Ancochea)

The project of the Scientific Summer Campus was developed simultaneously in the Departments and Centres of Research of the six selected campuses (as Campuses of International Excellence) which are in Andalucía, Asturias, Cantabria, Cataluña, Galicia and Madrid. The activities took place over the month of July 4th to the 31st, 2010.

The main objective of this activity was to improve the comprehension above the research activities, developed by the Animal Health laboratory and by Food Safety, from the applied methods, to the utility of the obtained results for the society.

The VISAVET Health Surveillance Centre of Complutense University participated actively in the Scientific Summer Campus 2010 to develop in its installations one project of the Campus International Excellence of Moncloa (CEI): “Infectious diseases between animals and humans”.

In this first event the students visited the BSL3 labs (Biosafety level 3 laboratories) to know how the work is performed in it. At the same time, there were several speeches to increase the knowledge about several themes developed in the centre, such as diseases that are transmitted among the men and the animals (zoonosis), some existing options for its treatment, the prevention and control of infectious illnesses, and also about the research activities carried out in the centre. On the other hand, an experimental practice of a clinical microbiological analysis was performed in the facilities of a BSL3.

Scientific Summer Campus 2010

Health Surveillance Centre (VISAVET). Complutense University

Scientific Summer Campus 2010