General Public Week-end
Cap Sciences, Bordeaux
June 20 – 21, 2026
From 2pm to 7pm (Saturday 20)
From 2pm to 6:30pm (Sunday 21)
See the detailed program below or download it
Between Land and Ocean:
The Chemistry That Shapes Our Region
A special public weekend will take place on the afternoons of Saturday, June 20, and Sunday, June 21, 2026, at Cap Sciences in Bordeaux, alongside the SCF26 congress. The event will feature talks, panel discussions, exhibitions, and hands-on workshops for all ages, exploring topics such as water quality and pollution, bio-based chemistry, as well as the chemistry of wood and wine. Located along the Garonne riverfront and close to the Cité du Vin, Cap Sciences is easily accessible by tram. We warmly invite you to stop by!
Free admission for all activities. Some workshops will be available by reservation, subject to availability.
Workshops for all ages, talks, panel discussions, and exhibitions on bio-based chemistry, wood, wine, oysters, water, the environment, and more…
Program
Free access to all activities
Saturday, June 20 (2-7 pm) & Sunday, June 21 (2-6:30 pm)
All participatory workshops, demonstrations, exhibitions and information stands are continuous and free of charge, reservation only for the “microplastics” workshop.
Participatory Workshops & Demonstrations
Café des sciences 1st floor :
- The oyster is an outstanding chemist! A story of shells and pearls.
- Algae in all its forms. Its gelling powers
- Unusual leathers. Fish and grapes too!
- Polymers, Nano Legos !
- The molecules of wine, To each his own smell
- Chemistry and wood
- From diatoms to glass… Bioinspired chemistry
- Salt crystallization.
- Trees and chemistry. Paper whiter than white
Fablab 2nd floor :
- Manufacture of a bio-based plastic
- Kimik. A board game about molecular chemistry
- From the virtual to the living. Molecules between land and ocean: Virtual reality
- On the trail of microplastics. For children from 7 years old. Reservation required (link 2pm-3pm – link 4pm-5pm)
Atelier 3, 2nd floor :
- Chemistry show. Exploring matter and its transformations, for ages 8 and up. 1 hour, 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Exhibitions : Café des sciences 1st floor
Insights into chemistry
Bio-based chemistry, Chemistry of tomorrow
Information Stands : Café des sciences 1st floor
Chimie et Société & Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie
Société Chimique de France, The network of French academic and industrial chemists
Research careers at the CNRS
France Chimie. Chemical professions and companies
Women and Science. An association that promotes scientific and technical careers among women.
Réseau Naïades. Regional water research network in Nouvelle Aquitaine
Conferences for the general public, Children’s show & Round table
Free access, reservation recommended only for the tasting and the children’s show
Saturday, June 20 juin
Conference room, 2nd floor :
3 pm : Conference
The Gironde estuary, biogeochemical reactor.
Eric Veyssy, Association Terre et Océan
5 pm : Conference & tasting
Is climate change a threat to the balance of wines?
Alexandre Pons, Seguin-Moreau/Institut des Sciences de la Vigne et du Vin
Tasting, reservations required (link)
Living Lab, 1st floor :
3 pm – 4:30 pm : Mini conferences & discussions
- Women and Science. Françoise Conan, President of the Association
- My thesis in 15min. 4 young female researchers from Bordeaux come to talk about their research topic
- The Secrets of Medicinal Plants, When Chemistry Goes Green. Jean-Marc Sotiropoulos, IPREM
Sunday, June 21
Living Lab, 1st floor :
3 pm : Children’s show (6-10 years old)
Les farces moléculaires d’Ernestte pour l’anniversaire de Barnab’, by Les Chimifous
Reservation required (link)
3 pm : Round table “Microplastic pollution“
Moderated by Sylvie Latieule, editorial director and journalist specialising in chemistry
Etienne Grau, Teacher-researcher at LCPO ; Jérôme Cachot, Professor of Environmental Toxicology at the University of Bordeaux and researcher at the EPOC laboratory; Stéphanie Reynaud, CNRS research director at the UPPA (IPREM laboratory). Member of the Scientific Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty; Marie-Lise Baraud, Circular Economy Project Manager for the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region; Fabrice Amedeo : skipper, oceanographic project around microplastics during the last Vendée Globe.
5 pm : Conference (ages 10 and up)
From Seed to Tree: The Chemistry of Wood. Antoine Robert, Berkem society
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