TELEPLANETA
Data
Budget: 281,019.11 €
Financing: FECYT, MINECO (25,000.00 €), TVE-Canarias (251,269.11 €), Volcanological Institute of the Canary Islands, INVOLCAN (4,750.00 €)
Reference: FCT-15 – 10482
Acronym: TELEPLANETA
Duration: 2016
Principal Investigator: David Calvo
Overview of the project
TELEPLANETA is a science popularisation project that has been consolidated since 2009, and which is produced jointly with Televisión Española in the Canary Islands. It is a 20-minute television programme that deals with various scientific topics, including natural hazards, science and technology, and is broadcast on TVE’s 24-hour Channel, as well as on the International Channel, and regionally on TVE’s La1. This project allows to bring first-hand and through a mass broadcasting platform such as TVE, a multitude of news and scientific and technological discoveries, allowing viewers to increase their scientific and innovative culture.
TELEPLANETA, hosted by geologist David Calvo, is a product produced entirely from the Canary Islands for the world and its main objective is to assert itself as a programme classified by RTVE as a ‘public service’ that helps to raise awareness in society of the relationship between Humanity and Planet Earth. The commission of the twelfth edition of ‘Science in Action’ for the categories of Short Science Films, Teaching Materials and Outreach Work unanimously agreed to award the prize in the category of Short Science Films to the programme TELEPLANETA for the importance and relevance of its weekly programmes informing about the risks of natural disasters and the measures to mitigate them. ‘Science in Action’ is an initiative of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Ciencia Viva, the Royal Spanish Physical Society (RSEF), the Spanish Geological Society (SGE) and the National University of Distance Education (UNED).
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