UPM. SPARKS: An international parkour around Circular Economy

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Challenge in which teams of students will participate in different activities under the form of a gymkhana or scientific parkour, with the aim of awakening curiosity and interest around Circular Economy and social and civic skills. It is aimed at high school and first year’s university students. Three different challenges (for instance, an escape room, a recipe workshop or the joint generation of algorithmic keyword clouds) will be the means for, with the help of researchers, participants to design research projects on these topics, which will help them to become familiar with the way of working in science and technology and its relationship with the challenges of society. The activity will be coordinated simultaneously in Madrid, Istanbul and Bucharest within the framework of the European initiative EELISA Alliance and will be carried out in English. The host universities will be: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Istanbul Technical University and the Universitatea Politehnica din București.