About forty high school students have shared their projects with young researchers from UPNA, today 14 March, at the Pamplona Planetarium. Students work with science and technology projects to present them in Bilbao on April 21 at the Elhuyar Science Fair.

About forty students from ESO and Baccalaureate from three Navarrese schools (IES Amazabal BHI de Leitza, IES Elortzibar de Noáin and Ikastola Pedro de Villava) have participated in the Zientzia Azoka. This initiative has the collaboration of the University of Navarra, the Planetarium and the Club of Friends of Science in the Foral Community of Navarra.

María Gil Rodríguez, head of the Science Unit of the Elhuyar Foundation, Pablo Sanchis Gúrpide, director of the Research Resources and Research Structures Area of UPNA, Javier Armentia Fructuoso, director of the Pamplona Planetarium, and Nieves Gordón, director of the Friends of Science Club.

Students who are at the door of the university, create scientific or technological projects throughout the course for the Elhuyar Zientzia Azoka initiative, and at today's meeting have received the advice of researchers and professors from the university. The Navarrese students aged 12 to 18 have received the advice of 9 researchers, scholars and young doctoral students from different departments of the Public University of Navarra (UPNA). This support will help them to publicly exhibit their work at a fair on 21 April in the center of Bilbao, together with the students of the CAPV.

The objective of the four organizing entities (Elhuyar Foundation, Public University of Navarra, Planetarium of Navarra and Friends of Science Club) is to create a network of secondary education centers committed to research in the Foral Community, with the aim of improving the training and skills of students who are at the university gates.