Due to COVID crisis, we might be reluctant to organise mass events this year, as it was proposed in the first proposal. So, as a first step we are adapting the Night to increase the number of venues but with less public. But, at the end, it was no possible to celebrate almost any presential activity, so it was reduced everything to a on-line #NitRecerCat. In order to get the maximum number of people attending the activities, the Catalan Foundation of Research (FCRi), together with the coordinator of the project, readapted the calendar to have a unique schedule for both science festivities (as both of them were fixed on November). It was approved that the Science Week in Catalonia (which celebrates 25 years old) were taking place during the two weeks before, so merging both large Science Festivities in order to arrive a larger amount of people.
All the activities were found in www.lanitdelarecerca.cat. There were divided in recorded talsk, streaming talks, videos for different workshops, virtual plaça with more that 28 experiments (recorded by video), special programmes like “NitRecerCat: The magazine”, interviews to researchers, experiments from home, round tables, and some workshops were people could attend following all the health restriction, etc. More than 250 activities were designed in order arrive to maximum number of people, with the participation of almost 500 researchers (at all lebels).
All the partners organized a “Research Meet Schools”, with more than 4000 student attending the explanation of different researchers from all areas of research. Many of them were on-line talks, giving the opportunity of having hundred of participants per talk. On the other hand, some research could got he the school, with the idea of showing in a closer manner their research.
One of the main differences respect to other editions were that the Night was not only one Night. There were many streaming talks performed during 27th November, but what was important, is that many of the activities stay there, no only for that days, but to spread the Night to the rest of the year.
