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The aim of this conference is to make botany visible to the university environment and the general public, at the same time as familiarising them with the scientific world. Nowadays there is a growing disconnection with nature and the public is not aware of what surrounds them. This separation between the natural world and the human being is aggravated when talking about plants, which he has termed “plant blindness”. Plants are essential to ensure the quality of the air we breathe, the balance of our ecosystem, or for all the supplies they provide us with: food, fibres, dyes, fuels, environmental services (temperature regulation, carbon capture, reduction of pollution and ultraviolet radiation, etc.). For this reason, the 10th Practical Botany Conference aims to alleviate plant blindness and, at the same time, bring the scientific world closer to students and the general public. Specifically, the aim is to: -Awaken students’ and the general public’s interest in plants -Sensitise awareness of the problems of conservation of these indispensable beings -Introduce students and the general public to the formats of knowledge transfer in scientific forums -Encourage the acquisition of skills in the development of critical thinking and scientific argumentation.

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Camina a lo largo del río Magro para conocer las diferentes plantas y árboles que nos encontramos junto al río. Descubre las propiedades medicinales, nutritivas y saludables de las plantas. Reconoce la importancia de la biodiversidad. Disfruta de la naturaleza.

Charla divulgativa sobre bonsáis a cargo de Miguel Vicente, miembro de la Asociación Cultural Bonsái Mirasierra para celebrar el Día de la Fascinación por las Plantas 2024

The Spanish Flora Biomarathon is a citizen participation event in which citizens from all over the country go out into the countryside to enjoy nature while photographing plants and learning about our plant biodiversity.

El Biomaratón de Flora Española evento de participación ciudadana en el que ciudadanos de todo el país salen al campo a disfrutar de la naturaleza mientras fotografían plantas y aprenden sobre nuestra biodiversidad vegetal.

The activity will consist of two days in which third-year students of the Biotechnology Degree will present their own work. The topics will be related to the applications of plant biotechnology. Each presentation will last 10 minutes and will be followed by a question and answer session. The activity is aimed at students and teachers of Biology and Biotechnology, although it is open to the general public.

The success of learning requires reconsidering the methodology used, in order to avoid the inertia of classical conceptions that caused demotivation and inaction of the students. The current event gives continuity to the two previous editions, held at the Faculty of Biology, and addressed to students of plant physiology from the Biology and Biotechnology degrees. This activity gives the students the opportunity to be more active in their curricular development, strengthening autonomous learning and the management of bibliographic resources, being able to conduct writing and speaking of a scientific issue, always in English language otherwise. Also, activities like this, could be beneficial to promoting the interaction between students and also the binomial student-teacher, in the forums enabled on virtual platforms, in the training sessions performed by teachers, also during the poster and oral communication sessions, as well as in the coffee breaks. According to the students, this is an encouraging activity, which is being the more and more engaged.