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OurFuture · European Researchers' Night: Researchers' For a Better Future

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2014-04-01 → 2015-10-31
EU contribution
€180,000
Participants
14
Scheme
CSA

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Results in brief

European Researchers' Night: Researchers' For a Better Future

The “OurFuture: Researchers For a Better Future” Spanish Researcehrs’ Night 2015 actually consisted of the continuation of several successful actions. The activities were organised by five universities, three public foundations, one scientific association, one autonomic government and a large scientific infrastructure around Spain as well as a Science Museum. A broad range of activities were offered to the visitors, from science shows, hands-on experiments, demos, simulations, guided tour through labs, dating with researchers, exhibitions, debates, roundtables, conferences, science investigations, workshops, to quizzes and competitions, European corners. About 600 researchers were participating in showcasing their work. Furthermore, a drawing competition was performed before and after the event. A special emphasis was set on the 2.0 tools, using games and videos edited in the previous edition of European Researchers’ Night (ERN). These tools, together with the drawing competition, were used to disseminate Friday event activities. The main objective of the project consisted of enhancing the recognition of researchers and their role in society, showing that “Researchers are amongst us”, meaning that they are ”ordinary people” with an extraordinary job, integrated in the social fabric and whose work benefits to the citizens’ daily lives and well-being. As a rule the economic crisis causes all around the world an important budget decrease for research and researchers. This fact is particularly hard in Spain, where the current decrease amounted about 40% in the past three years. Important economic cuts do not help improving the public image of science and scientists; on the other hand, they make people think of what could happen without science and scientists. It consequently proves even more necessary showing the public at large that with no researchers there is no future. On the other hand, the communicative facet of research together with some hands-on experiments were used to bring them closer to the large public enhancing public recognition of researchers and their work, as well as to convince young people to embark on scientific careers. It also allowed settling down amongst researchers that non-communicated research is no research.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

The OurFuture: Researchers For a Better Future proposal consists in a two years proposal with different activities that are deeply related. The first activity consists of twelve main Events on the 26th September 2014 and 25th September 2015, organised by five universities, 3 public foundations, one scientific association, one autonomic government and a scientific installation around Spain as well as a Science Museum. A second activity consists on a Drawing Competition, which will be performed before and after the both events. Also special emphasis will be done on the 2.0 tools, using games and videos edited in the previous edition of European Researchers’ Night (ERN). These tools, together with the Drawing Competition, will be used to disseminate Friday Event Activities. The main objective of the project is to enhance the recognition of researchers and their role in society, showing that Researchers are among us. In general, all around the world the economic crisis causes an important decrease of budget for research and Researchers. This fact is particularly hard in Spain, where the decrease is about 40% in the past three year. Important economic cuts do not help to improve the image of Science and Scientist; on the other hand, they make people think that one can do with no Research and Researchers. It is necessary to show the society that With No Researchers there is No Future. For this purpose, Researcher will be participating in Researcher’ Night activities to show the importance of Scientists in the current economic context. On the other hand, the Communicative facet of researchers together with some hands-on experiments will be used to bring them closer to the large public enhancing public recognition of Researchers and their Work, as well as convincing young people to embark on scientific careers. It is important also to settle down between Researchers that non-communicated Research is no Research.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • UNIVERSITAT DE GIRONA · GironaCoordinatorSpain
  • BIOCOMUNICA'T · BARCELONASpain
  • CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACION SOBRE LA EVOLUCION HUMANA · BurgosSpain
  • CONSEJERIA DE MEDIO AMBIENTE, VIVIENDA Y ORDENACIÓN DEL TERRITORIO - JUNTA DE CASTILLA Y LEON · ValladolidSpain
  • CONSORCIO PARA LA CONSTRUCCION EQUIPAMIENTO Y EXPLOTACION DEL LABORATORIO DE LUZ SINCROTRON · Cerdanyola Del Valles BarcelonaSpain
  • FUNDACIO CATALANA PER A LA RECERCA I LA INNOVACIO · BarcelonaSpain
  • FUNDACION CANARIA PARQUE CIENTIFICO TECNOLOGICO DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA · Las PalmasSpain
  • FUNDACION MUSEO DE LA CIENCIA DE VALLADOLID · VALLADOLIDSpain
  • FUNDACIÓN SÉNECA-AGENCIA DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGÍA DE LA REGIÓN DE MURCIA · MurciaSpain
  • INSTITUT DE RECERCA BIOMEDICA DE LLEIDA FUNDACIO DOCTOR PIFARRE · LleidaSpain
  • UNIVERSIDAD DE CANTABRIA · SANTANDERSpain
  • UNIVERSIDAD DE EXTREMADURA · BadajozSpain
  • UNIVERSIDAD DE MURCIA · MurciaSpain
  • UNIVERSIDAD DE OVIEDO · OVIEDOSpain

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union