To celebrate that it has been 30 years since Spain joined the European Union, its Barcelona Office has decided to look at twelve personal stories that highlight the impact the EU has had on them (as a proxy for society).
The stories range from funds to promote local agriculture, film making to, as in our case, research and one of them will be showcased every month, and the Quintana lab, as an ERC-funded lab, was selected to talk about the research grant EU programs.
We were also invited to the program presentation, along with EU Barcel
ona Office President, Ferran Tarradellas, acclaimed film maker Isabel Coixet who told us about her EU-funded project Paris je t’aime and engineer/enterpreneur Marc Rovira, from the company zero to infinity , who told us about flying and shipping cargo to the stratosphere (so cool) in the near (present)-future using helium balloons.
We had a chance to highlight our research and to explain the importance that EU-funding policies had on our lab, on mitochondrial disease research, and on society as a whole.
More information on the different programs can be obtained here (in catalan, but google translate does work 🙂 ).
The teaser is also available and just keep an eye for a new story every month…
And look for us this coming April!