Unizar Kids 2025: How Will Life Be in 2075? The 7th Edition Reaches the Campuses of Teruel and Huesca

(Zaragoza, Monday, June 16, 2025). The 7th edition of “Unizar Kids: How will life be in 2075?” will arrive this Tuesday at the Teruel campus and on Wednesday at the Huesca campus, with a total of four talks that will allow 5th and 6th grade primary school studentsto talk directly with researchers from the University of Zaragoza.

The current edition, which began on Thursday, June 12, in Zaragoza with the participation of 600 students, invites children to reflect on how science, knowledge and technology may transform or challenge their lives by 2075 — when they will be around 60 years old.

Programme Highlights

📍 Campus of Teruel – Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Location: Amparo Sánchez Auditorium, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences
C/ Atarazanas 4, Teruel

  • 10:00–10:45 a.m.
    Your summers won’t be my summers: what will the climate be like in 2075?
    Can we all face the challenge of a hotter planet?
    By Miguel Ángel Saz, professor in the Department of Geography and researcher in the group “Climate, Water, Global Change and Natural Systems” at IUCA-Unizar.

  • 11:10–11:55 a.m.
    What will animals’ lives be like on the farms of the future? What about our pets?
    New ways of living and eating: What farms and food may look like in 50 years.
    By María Ángeles Latorre, professor of Animal Production at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, and David López Carbonell and Manuel Sánchez Díaz, researchers at IA2 (UNIZAR–CITA).

📍 Campus of Huesca – Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Location: Main Auditorium, Faculty of Business and Public Management
Plaza de la Constitución, s/n. Huesca

  • 10:00–10:45 a.m.
    Will the planet be able to feed us in 2075? Will there be food for everyone?
    A journey into the future of soils and crops.
    By Manuel López Vicente, professor at the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, EPS Huesca, and researcher in soil science with the GEOFOREST group (IUCA-Unizar), and Silvia Quintana Esteras, researcher in Environmental and Agri-food Sciences.

  • 11:10–11:55 a.m.
    The Universe of the Future: From atoms to galaxies… and beyond
    Exploring the smallest particles to understand the most distant Universe.
    By Susana Cebrián Guajardo, professor of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics, and researcher at CAPA-Unizar (Center for Astroparticles and High Energy Physics) and the Canfranc Underground Laboratory.

Inspiring Curiosity in Young Minds

The outreach event Unizar Kids: “How will life be in 2075?” aims to spark curiosity and a love for science from an early age, showcasing the work of the public university of Aragón and connecting it with younger generations, while also fostering future scientific vocations in girls and boys alike.

Organized by the Scientific Culture Unit at the University of Zaragoza in collaboration with the Department of Educational Innovation of the Government of Aragón, this event is part of the “Researchers at Schools” initiative and serves as a pre-event for the European Researchers’ Night project G9–SCIENCE4ALL, funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe programme (Grant Agreement No. 101162477).