Dr Josefina Castellví, Catalan of the Year 2013, gave a conference called “The oceans and life” in the Escola Internacional del Camp.
Dr Josefina Castellví i Piulachs is a Catalan oceanographer who collaborated in setting up the Juan Carlos 1 Spanish Antarctic Base on Livinston Island, which she led from 1989 to 1993 and which meant Spain could enter as a member of the Antarctic Treaty (1988). In 1994 she received the City of Barcelona’s Gold Medal and in 2003 she received the St Jordi’s Cross. Since 2010 she has been the president of the Andorra Summer University. On the 8th of October 2013 she won the Catalan Government’s Culture award and on the 13th of May 2014 she was named Catalan of the Year 2013
This session falls within the cycle of conferences that the Escola Internacional del Camp is holding with the aim of opening up the school and bringing it within reach of the whole education community that it is part of. The cycle is structured around different conferences given by prominent people from a diverse range of current issue fields like science, literature, economics, humanities, sport, art, etc. One of this initiative’s main goals is to give the Escola students a chance to actively participate in order to enhance and enrich their studies.



