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YouMaker

This is how we make science

An audiovisual ICMAB outreach project presenting remarkable materials and showing how they are made in the laboratory.

What is YouMaker?

YouMaker showcases some of ICMAB’s most characteristic and surprising materials and reveals the laboratory processes used to make them.

The project produced a series of ten materials science videos. Each episode brings together one ICMAB researcher and one external science communicator working in a different area or medium. An introductory video presents the series and invites audiences to discover how science is made at ICMAB.

FECYT and Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación support for YouMaker

Partners and funding

YouMaker was developed with organisations that contributed editorial reach, project management and audiovisual production. The project was supported through the collaboration of FECYT – Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and the ICMAB Severo Ochoa Excellence project.

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Articles and distribution

El Periódico

Hosted the videos within science outreach articles to increase their impact and reach.

Project management

Esciencia

Supported the science outreach project management.

Video production

Incognita Agency

Supported the production of the YouMaker videos.

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Funding collaboration

FECYT

Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología – Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación.

Institutional collaboration

ICMAB Severo Ochoa Excellence project

Contributed to the YouMaker project at ICMAB.

External collaborators

Each episode pairs an ICMAB researcher with a science communication professional who brings a distinct voice, audience and media perspective.

Presentation of the project

Anna May Masnou presented “YouMaker: this is how we make science” at the VI Annual Nanodivulgation Meeting, held in Sevilla on 4 November 2021. The event was organised by the Institute of Materials Science of Sevilla (ICMS) at the Scientific Research Center Isla De La Cartuja (CIC Cartuja).

The project was also presented at CosmoCaixa Barcelona during the European Researchers’ Night, where visitors were asked what they expected from materials science and how it could shape the future.

Finally, Lydia Gallego, from the CSIC Delegation in Catalunya, presented the project at the CSIC Science Culture Meeting in Madrid on 13–14 June 2022.

YouMaker video series

Start with the introductory film, then explore the ten episodes. The original Catalan and Spanish article links are preserved for every science chapter.

Converteix-te en #YouMaker i descobreix com fem la ciència a l'ICMAB

The introductory film presents YouMaker and how science is made at ICMAB.

Podem fabricar memòries més eficients que el cervell?

Com fabricar superconductors en un temps rècord

Com transformar calor en electricitat amb un simple paper

Com fabricar nanomedicaments magnètics per tractar l’ictus cerebral

¿Com es fabrica una bateria recarregable de calci?

Com es pot aprofitar l’energia del sol amb plàstics de colors?

Com es fabrica el sòlid més lleuger del món

Espases làser al laboratori per emmagatzemar energia

Biosensors orgànics per detectar biomolècules

Avenços en la immunoteràpia contra el càncer amb materials 3D

Complete YouMaker playlist

Watch the introductory film and all ten materials science episodes in the complete YouMaker playlist.

Credits and support

YouMaker was produced by ICMAB with the collaboration of the Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT) – Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación.

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