This Friday, October 9th at five o’clock in the afternoon, the ceremony of the stone laying for the biggest Cherenkov telescope in the northern hemisphere, the prototype of the LST (Large Size Telescope) with a diameter of 23 metres, will take place at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM) on the island of La Palma. Takaaki Kajita, newly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics, will be present at the event.

Pere Estupinyà is a biochemist. He gave up on his doctorate in genetics to devote his efforts to the popularization of science. He has published two books of this kind, and we will shortly be seeing him on television. He will be one of those participating in “100xCIENCIA” and he thinks highly of an event where the Severo Ochoa centres of excellence can meet together with specialists in outreach, and science journalists.

Pampa García Molina is the Editor-in-Chief of one of the most highly valued projects of science news and outreach in Spain. This is the SINC Agency, an agency for quality news backed by the FECYT (Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology). She will be one of the lecturers at the “100XCIENCIA” forum, and she is convinced that this will be a great opportunity to spread the word about the most outstanding research centres in the country.

Rosa M. Tristán is one of the pioneers of the speciality of Science and the Environment in the Spanish press. She was the founder of the first section dedicated to these matters in a national newspaper -El Mundo- which for her meant “a privileged gateway to knowledge” as she herself puts it. Now she is working among other projects, in her own medium “Laboratory for sapiens”, with its own news section and a good number of subscribers and visits. She will be one of the participants in the “100xCIENCIA” forum where communicators and scientists will debate about their respective roles in the

Patricia Fernández de Lis is the Editor in Chief of the Science and Technology section of El País, due to an agreement reached by this outstanding newspaper with Materia, the science information website created by the team which runs Science section of Público when the printed version of that newspaper had closed down. She will be one of the speakers in “100Xciencia” a forum where journalists and scientists will be able to debate about the role of the popularization of science.

Javier Gregori is a specialist in Science and the Environment, and Works in the Cadena SER (the Spanish radio channel with the biggest audience) where he works as a science journalist. He will attend the “100XCIENCIA” forum which will be held on La Palma, with enthusiasm to share experiences with science journalists, and with those whom he himself has termed the “Crown Jewels of Spanish Science”, the representatives of the Severo Ochoa centres.