The European Researchers’ Night in Madrid is promoted by the Department of Science, Universities and Innovation and coordinated by madri+d since 2009. A pan-European initiative, taking place simultaneously in more than 300 cities across Europe, funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 Programme and where, one year more, the seven IMDEA Institutes will participate quite actively.

IMDEA Networks will have three online contributions in this edition:

1/ “Great Women Researchers on the big screen”
An activity broadcasted live from the Residencia de Estudiantes of Madrid (Friday 27 November, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.), which can be followed live on the IMDEA website. Representatives of the Institutes will talk about great researchers who have been or could be protagonists on the big screen, and in the case of Arturo Azcorra, Director of IMDEA Networks, he will talk about a surprising pioneer of wireless communications …

2/ “Green light for the Earth”
IMDEA Networks proposes an online meeting on a major sustainable technology initiative (Friday 27 November, from 11.30 am to 12 h.): creating battery-free wireless devices. Domenico Giustiniano (Research Associate Professor), Borja Genovés (Post-Doc Researcher), Muhammad Sarmad Shahab Mir (PhD Student); from IMDEA Networks, and Ambuj Varshney, Postdoctoral Researcher in Universidad de California, Berkeley, will be the researchers presenting a short explanatory video and a demo on an IOT (Internet of Things) system

3/ MSCA Fellows
The event, within the Marie S. Curie actions of the European Commission, wants to give visibility to researchers and their views on these research grants. IMDEA Networks Researchers: Nina Grosheva, Dayrene Frometa and Muhammad Sarmad Shahab Mir talk about their experiences, as we will communicate in our social networks.

Videos of Nina Grosheva, Dayrene Frometa and Muhammad Sarmad Shahab Mir