The Science Museum hosts the presentation of the study on the Social Perception of Science and Technology in Spain 2004

Dec 8, 2005

Tomorrow, Friday the 9th of December, the Director of the Príncipe Felipe Science Museum and Chairman of the Spanish Association of Scientific Journalism (AEPC), Manuel Toharia, and the Director of Programmes and Studies of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), José Manuel Báez Cristóbal, will present the study “The Social Perception of Science and Technology in Spain 2004”, which analyses how Spaniards perceive and consider science. They will also present “The AEPC’s 2005 Annual”.

After the presentation of the study, there will be an intervention by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid professor Santiago Lorente and Universidad de Islas Baleares professor José Luis Luján, respectively, on "Politics and religion in relation to science and technology" and "Science in politics: a study on the public perception of the regulation of technological change".

The study on "The Social Perception of Science and Technology in Spain 2004" is the result of an analysis conducted by a group of experts of the Second National Survey on the Social Perception of Science and Technology (2004), commissioned by FECYT to be made by TNS-Demoscopia.

· Friday 9th December 2005

· Time: 11:00

· Sala Polivalente, Príncipe Felipe Science Museum