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7. SOCIAL OUTREACH

of the funding to the Second phase of the Vallecas I Neuroscientists Women Today: Sowing Referents
Project, which started in 2018, which made this tri-
bute act take place in an even more special way. The General Assembly of the United Nations appro-
The honorees were able to enjoy the show of the ved in December 2015 a Resolution proclaiming on
magician Andrés Madruga and the main perfor- February 11 of each year the International Day of
mance of the Madrid Coral Alliance, which has Women and Girls in Science with the purpose, ac-
among its members one of the volunteers who are cording to the text, to promote through education
part of the project, the tenor José Martín. With Ros- and public awareness activities the full and equal
tislav Fedorov in the direction, they interpreted a participation of women and girls in education, re-
wide repertoire of well-known pieces of zarzuela as cruitment, employment and decision-making pro-
"The Waltz of the Knight of Grace" from La Gran Vía, cesses in science. That is why the CIEN Foundation
"La Paloma" from El Barberillo de Lavapiés or "El Cho- and CIBERNED decided to join this initiative by orga-
tis de Madrid" by Agustín Lara. nizing on Monday, February 12 the Meeting "Neu-

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