The biomedicine workshops for high school students organized by the Tissue Repair and Regeneration Research Group (TR2lab) within the Educational Biomedicine Program of TR2lab and UDivulga program of UVic-UCC are a consolidated activity aimed at establishing a link between high school scientific education and university degrees. Additionally, the workshops serve as a very useful platform for disseminating biomedical science and fostering scientific vocations, conveying the curiosity and research initiatives of high school students.

In this edition, more than 250 students from Osona and Vallès Occidental have participated in the workshops, and over 1000 high school students have enjoyed this experience since it began to be offered to secondary schools in the 2015-2016 academic year. This year, for the first time, the workshops have had the participation of all secondary schools, both public and privately funded, in the city of Vic that offer secondary education. This highly positive response clearly demonstrates success in the objective of bringing science to as many young people as possible, one of the fundamental pillars of this initiative.

The activities carried out between January and February have been conducted in the Biosciences laboratories of the Faculty of Sciences, Technology, and Engineering. The themes of this course have been: Determination of human DNA fingerprint using Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and experimental analysis of human serum proteins using polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The workshops have been taught by Anna Buisan ,a doctoral student in the Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Program at UVic-UCC , Bet Sarri full professor at the Faculty of Medicine, and Laia Bosch-Presegué associate professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Welfare. All of them are researchers at TR2Lab, affiliated with Institute for Research and Innovation in Life and Health Sciences in Central Catalonia (IRIS-CC) , and actively involved in biomedical research carried out within the framework of UVic-UCC.

Participants in the workshop highlight several key aspects of the activity. First, they highly value the content of the workshop, which is well integrated into the Biology and Biomedicine curricula of scientific-technical and biosanitary high schools. On the other hand, they emphasize the research experience of the teaching staff responsible for conducting the workshops, which provides a practical and enriching view in this field, significantly contributing to the educational experience of the students. This activity is supported by grants for the organization of activities in the field of scientific dissemination and research training for 2024 from the Vice-Rectorate of

Research and Knowledge Transfer and the collaboration of the Scientific Dissemination Unit of UVic-UCC .