Public projection of scientific activity
Social communication of the work carried out at the Instituto Cajal
The communication, dissemination, disclosure and transfer to the public opinion of the work carried out in the center, as well as the results derived from it, represents for the Cajal Institute a fundamental and inexcusable commitment to our society.
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Bringing the research work carried out in our laboratories closer to the public is an inescapable responsibility, which we understand as an essential part of our own scientific activity.
A community involved in outreach
To this end, we rely on the valuable work of communication and strategy of our Library, Documentation and Dissemination Service, as well as the support of a Scientific Culture section. This, without prejudice to the already traditional participation of the scientific staff of the center in outreach activities that seek to reach the Spanish society and, in particular, patient associations related to the world of Neurology and Psychiatry.
On many occasions our Institute has also been the venue for congresses and scientific meetings of great relevance, such as the meeting of the ‘Cajal Club’, a section of the American Association of Anatomist, formed in 1947 by the most notable American neurohistologists, which recognized the fundamental role that our Nobel Prize winner had played in the development of modern Neuroscience.
The Cajal Legacy: key heritage for the dissemination of Neuroscience
Given the validity and relevance of the Cajal Legacy, both for the history of science and for the lines of research on the brain that are currently being developed, it is essential, from the point of view of social communication and the dissemination of Neuroscience, to have a National Museum dedicated to the figure of Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the disciples of his School, who constituted the initial vanguard of these studies.
Having this exhibition space would make it possible to permanently display the extraordinary and valuable pieces that make up the Legacy, included by UNESCO in 2017 under the name «Archivo de Santiago Ramón y Cajal y la Escuela Española de Neurohistología» in the Memory of the World Register. The achievement of that future Cajal Museum is one of the center's major dissemination objectives.