La Ricotta designs and organizes academic events that combine a scientifically stimulating and informal environment, aimed at fostering interaction among participants, with a cultural impact on the surroundings where they take place. Currently, two series of events are organized: La Ricotta Summer Schools, summer schools for graduate students and early-career researchers, and La Ricotta Workshops, workshops for researchers. Both include activities open to the public (lectures, workshops, and/or experiments), delivered in Spanish or Galician. These events are funded through external sources, generally provided in grants awarded to researchers or in resources made available by universities and research centers for organizing this type of initiative. Consequently, we seek the collaboration of researchers, universities, and research centers, offering high-level scientific academic events that, thanks to efficient resource management, help eliminate financial barriers to participation. Individuals interested in organizing a summer school or a workshop at La Ricotta can submit their application via the dedicated form, available for La Ricotta Summer Schools and La Ricotta Workshops , sending it by email to laricotta_proyecto@anche.no with the subject La Ricotta Summer School/Workshop Application.

La Ricotta Summer Schools: They are summer schools with a minimum duration of two weeks, with two lecturers per week and, currently, 25 participants. Each lecturer delivers a 7.5-hour course, usually in the morning, complemented by 5 hours of tutorials and 2.5 hours on Fridays of joint tutorials among the week’s lecturers. Lecturers are provided accommodation in a traditional Galician house, while participants stay in individual tents equipped with an inflatable mattress, sleeping bag, and towel. La Ricotta Summer Schools also include activities open to the public. The format can be adjusted according to needs, always respecting the pedagogical approach. To date, there are two school cycles: The Disordered Universe, which has two editions (2025 and 2026) and focuses on understanding the early moments of the universe through the intersection of ideas from different fields, such as cosmology, scattering amplitudes in particle physics, open quantum systems, gravity in expanding space-times, and disordered systems; and The Quantum in the Haystack, which focuses on theoretical aspects of quantum information theory, whose first edition will take place in 2026.

La Ricotta Workshops: They are discussion-driven workshops that, under a common theme, bring together researchers from different fields to share and synthesize their perspectives, aiming to formulate the right questions that shed light on long-standing problems. The first La Ricotta Workshop, Expanding Thoughts in de Sitter, will take place in 2026.