Night of Biologists in Poland
In Gdańsk (Poland), CANVAS has been presented at three consecutive editions during the Night of Biologists, a Polish national-wide event for science communication of biology research institutions targeting mainly children, pupils, school-classes, but also receiving interest from adult participants.
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CANVAS at the Biologist Night in Gdańsk (2024)
CANVAS at the Biologist Night in Gdańsk (2025)
CANVAS at the Biologist Night in Gdańsk (2026)
European Researchers’ Night
CANVAS present at the European Researchers’ Night in Frascati (2023) and Rome and Viterbo (2023-2024) as well as in Gdańsk (2024).
ICCVS Molecular and Cellular Biology Workshop for Pupils
In the frame of CANVAS project, three talented students took the opportunity to attend a Molecular and cellular biology workshop at ICCVS (August 2024).
Activities targeting patients awareness of novel therapies
Sustainable Development Festival, a workshop entitled Health and Prevention: New Challenges for Young People and the Local Area, UNITOV, Rome, 2025.
Debate “From lab to the clinic. How novel research change prevention, diagnostics and therapy” Foundation for Polish Science (2 March 2023) https://youtu.be/BmPLoCdviMo
Prof. Natalia Marek- Trzonkowska has participated in the debate „Anti-cancer vaccines. Dream or reality?” The debate has been transmitted in real time online and is available under the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLZLwREes1A
Lectures and presentations
- Lecture recorded by Film and Documentary Production Centre of UG- series called Lesson of UG „Immune system- cellular therapies” provided by prof. Natalia Marek- Trzonkowksa; available online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPOIq5pq8Ak
- Science popularizing lecture for Polish Academy of Science, „Cellular therapies- T cells as therapeutic tool” given by prof. Natalia Marek- Trzonkowska; available online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nAUpuLqX8k
- Life Science Open Space (LSOS) 2023. The CANVAS project was presented (by Marcin Krzykawski, Real Research CEO) during the LSOS Conference, a European-wide public event held annually in Kraków. The conference is open to scientists as well as the general public, providing a platform for knowledge exchange, interdisciplinary dialogue, and engagement between the academic community and society.
- Prof C. Montesano held seminars on Immunology and cancer topics for the annual conferences of Experimental Group for interdisciplinary Teaching addressed to University students, sparking a wide-ranging debate among those present:
– 23rd cycles of conference on May 2023; title: “One Health: the inextricable link between human, animal and environmental health
– 24th cycles of conference on May 2024; title: Cross Kingdom Interaction: communication between the plant kingdom and the animal kingdom through nucleic acids
– 25th cycles of conference on March 2025; title: What a disaster! When the immune system causes harm instead of protecting - In January 2026, at UNITOV in collaboration with the SGI and the UNESCO Interdisciplinary Chair in Biotechnology and Bioethics, a conference-debate was organised on ‘New frontiers of functional foods in the era of global health’, at which new approaches for the production of nutraceuticals effective in the prevention of prostate cancer were presented.