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GREEN NIGHT

Taking its name from the European Green Deal, GREEN NIGHT stands on the main pillars and policy areas of the strategy with a general outlook on how science can support the aims and targets set out for Europe’s near future. The current global climate emergency urges an immediate and large-scale response from the countries. For the first time, climate change and environmental issues are seen to have migrated to the center of global policymaking. As a result, GREEN NIGHT highlights the importance of raising awareness of the general public, especially young people, on the necessity of the green transformation for the future of our planet. GREEN NIGHT acknowledges that it is essential to protect and restore natural ecosystems for sustainability. In doing so, GREEN NIGHT focuses on the main action areas of energy, food, waste, and transportation, and demonstrates the leading role that sciences have in how to achieve this transformation. GREEN NIGHT project brings together four of the ten higher education institutions in Izmir, Turkey as well as the provincial directorate of national education. The consortium represents the scientific research ecosystem and educational management in Izmir. The HEIs cooperate in local, national, and international research projects, joint social responsibility campaigns, and activities all of which create strong institutional linkages between HEI partners. IZMEM, being the highest local public body responsible for the coordination of educational activities at preprimary, primary, and secondary levels in Izmir, brings the public educational expertise into the project. The night activities were carried out on September 24, 2021, on four campuses around the city, each with its general theme selected from the main topics. Scientists and researchers from a wide range of disciplines organized workshops, seminars, demonstrations, hands-on experiments, games, competitions, shows, and simulations. The project also created synergies with other MSCA-funded researchers from all over Turkey. more than 200 volunteer students (visitors' guidance, display of information, assistance to management team) were involved in the NIGHT events. A total of 177 activities (including repeated sessions) were offered to the target groups with the involvement of 258 researchers from 4 academic partner organizations and from other universities around Turkey. Over 20.000 people directly got in contact with the researchers and took part in the activities and around 1.000.000 people were made aware of the GREEN NIGHT European Researchers Night via coordinated dissemination activities of the partner organizations.

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