ESC · European Reseearchers Night: Researchers in Real Life.
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2014-05-01 → 2015-11-30
- EU contribution
- €110,000
- Participants
- 3
- Scheme
- CSA
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Results in brief
European Reseearchers Night: Researchers in Real Life.
“Researchers in Real Life”, the European Researchers’ night 2015 event in Aragon, aimed at showing to the general public researchers as ordinary people, while pointing out the impact and influence of their work on citizens’ daily lives. The event took place in a festive mood with activities in City Centre streets. Worth noting that since the last three years, the Researchers’ Night has become a kind of traditional Fall event in Zaragoza. The activities were specifically designed to address the public at large in all its components, with a strong focus on young people. Local researchers were actively and directly involved in the activities from the very start. The activities related to topics such as “how researchers are in real life”, their hobbies, the sports they like, and their common interests with the public at large. They also showcased the current research developed in Aragon and its potential benefits for economy, employment, well-being… The event consisted of a real “Science party” involving most of the research entities in Aragon within a tag “Researchers in Real Life” that has become popular for people in the Community. The regional stakeholders’ involvement is also worth noting, allowing also the taking on board of participants initially not planned and consequently reaching a broader audience than expected. Special attention was paid to promotion of scientific careers towards pupils and students, notably by illustrating the various roles possibly played by researchers in both industry and academia. The management team of project was the same as last editions, namely: Esciencia Eventos Cientificos as coordinator, the University of Zaragoza, ARID Foundation (Government of Aragon), which employ half of researchers of Aragon. Furthermore, cooperating bodies such as The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), and Dinopolis Foundation (managing the Teruel science museum) got involved in the implementation of the action and consequently allowed reaching further researchers and sponsors.
Data: CORDIS, © European Union
Project objective
“Researchers in Real Life” is the project to show people of Aragon, researchers are common people and their work is in our daily life, in a festive mood with activities in City Center streets. After three years European Researchers Night has become an important event in Saragossa. The activities are specifically designed to address public at large and young people. We have previous experience in high involvement of researchers doing activities, and a useful structure program to reach 16.000 attendances. The topics are related with how researchers are in real life, hobbies, sports, and common interests. The event will be a real “Science party” involving most of the reseach entities in Aragon within a tag “Researchers in Real Life” that has become popular for people in the Community. It is remarkable the involvement of the regional stakeholders, which support this European initiative. We work with them to involve new participants and get to more public. Special attention will be paid to promotion of scientific careers to pupils, and we will show researchers in industry and playing different roles; Researchers are everywhere among us.The management team of project will be the same as last editions: Esciencia Eventos Cientificos as coordinator, the University of Zaragoza, ARID Foundation (Government of Aragon), which have half of researchers of Aragon. Cooperating bodies such as The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Ibercaja Foundation dependant from main regional bank, and Dinopolis Foundation that manage the Teruel science museum. The consolidated project in Zaragoza will continue its growth because in 2014-2015 Researchers in Real Life will include two new cities in another province (Teruel) within the Community of Aragon, Alcañiz (16,000 inhabitants) in 2014, and Teruel city (35.000 in 2015). This new location will allow us to improve the expected number of people in awereness campaign and the participation rates.
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
Links
- View on CORDIS
- DOI: 10.3030/633260
- http://lanochedelosinvestigadores.esciencia.es
- https://arquivo.pt/wayback/20160314145145/http://lanochedelosinvestigadores.esciencia.es/
- https://www.ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic?documentIds=080166e5a092d4a5&appId=PPGMS
- https://www.ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic?documentIds=080166e5a092e163&appId=PPGMS
- https://www.ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic?documentIds=080166e5a09c0f1c&appId=PPGMS
- https://www.ec.europa.eu/research/participants/documents/downloadPublic?documentIds=080166e5a09c1368&appId=PPGMS
Data: CORDIS, © European Union