Grand final of the third edition of the Neurotalent Games
The best classified among first-year secondary school students of Catalonia who participated in the Neurotalent Games will compete this Saturday 26 April in the grand final to be held at the Cosmocaixa science museum in Barcelona. The different competitions were approved by the Institut de Neurociències of the UAB (INc-UAB).
The grand final of the third edition of the Neurotalent Games competition will take place this Saturday at Cosmocaixa, with the participation of the best first-year secondary school students classified. The activity is organised by the Rosa Maria Vivar Foundation, which promotes projects that contribute to creating knowledge and raising awareness about Alzheimer's disease. The aim of the initiative is to explain the importance of exercising neuroplastic abilities throughout life to cope with the natural ageing of the brain and neurodegenerative diseases. The foundation's initiative is supported by scientific advice from the Institut de Neurociències of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (INc-UAB) and the support of the Ministry for Educaiton of the Government of Catalonia and the Government of Andorra, as well as the collaboration of the “la Caixa” Foundation.
Over 5,200 students from one hundred secondary schools in Catalonia and this year for the first time, Andorra, are participating in this memory competition and working on all their cognitive functions by performing certain memory exercises, all of them entertaining and varied, such as decoding a secret message, deciphering logic puzzles, and remembering a sequence of images, words, melodies or numbers in a specific time. In these three editions since the games were first launched, more than 17,000 young people have participated in this health and prevention initiative.
The ceremony of medals and awards to the winners and finalists will be conducted and presented by journalist Maria Huguet, and will feature the lecture “A healthy brain for life. Scientific evidence to care for your memory” by lecturer Marta Portero from the Department of Psychobiology and Methodology of Health Science at the Faculty of Psychology and from the Institut de Neurociències of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Margarita Oliva, president of the Rosa M. Vivar Foundation; Javier Lafuente, rector of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Susana Tarapiella, general director of Inclusive Education of the Government of Catalonia; and Valeri Ruiz, head of the Area of Relations with Social Entities of “la Caixa” Foundation will take part in the event.