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ERNI2014 · European Researchers' Night 2014 and 2015 in Israel

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2014-05-01 → 2015-10-31
EU contribution
€300,000
Participants
12
Scheme
CSA

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Results in brief

European Researchers' Night 2014 and 2015 in Israel

Following previous eight years of successful implementation of European Researchers' Night in Israel the Euroepan Researchers’night 2014 event in Israel offered activities coering the whole territory of the country, involving the academic community including Israel Ministry of Science, Technology and Space (MOST), all major research universities, leading collages and three science museums. The strong and intensive national awareness campaign was managed and financed by the Israel Ministry of Science, Technology and Space, while groups of junior-high and high-school students (ages 12-18) were invited by each partner to take part in the activities offered in each venue. Offering a very broad range of activities, namely presentations, science cafés, science films screenings, Scientific Hyde Park, roundtables discussions, guided tours, laboratory and research centres visits, science in 3 minutes, speed dating, European sites… the project aimed at gathering over 50.000 direct attendees (objective that was largely reached ). The activities were articulated around the main theme “ "Water & Marine Sciences research".

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

Following previous eight years of successful implementation of European Researchers' Night in Israel we will have:o Venues covering the whole country.o Involvement of the academic community including Israel Ministry of Science, Technology and Space (MOST), all major research universities, leading collages and three science museums.o Awareness campaign at national level managed and funded by the Israel Ministry of Science, Technology and Space.o Groups of junior-high and high-school students (ages 12-18) will be invited by each partner to take part in each venue.We are ready and proud to implement European Researchers' Night 2014 & 2015.• All of the partners involved in the project have the experience of running successful European Researchers' Nights events.• With the successive increase in number of visitors along the years and the reputation of the event we are expecting more than 50,000 visitors each year.• Main theme for 2014 will be ""Water & Marine Sciences research"". Main theme for 2015 will be ""Brain Research"" which is very attractive subject to the special 10th anniversary event.• Same management as in 2011, 2012, 2013 successful events.• Proposal covers both 2014 & 2015 European Researchers' Night events.""

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • MADATECH NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCIENCETECHNOLOGY & SPACE TECHNION DANIELAND MATILDE RECANATI CENTER · HaifaCoordinatorIsrael
  • BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY · Ramat GanIsrael
  • Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem (BSMJ) · JerusalemIsrael
  • ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH LIMITED · HaifaIsrael
  • MIGAL GALILEE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LTD · KIRYAT SHEMONAIsrael
  • SAMI SHAMOON COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING(R.A.) FRIENDLY SOCIETY · Beer ShevaIsrael
  • TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · HaifaIsrael
  • TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY · Tel AvivIsrael
  • THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM · JerusalemIsrael
  • THE OPEN UNIVERSITY · RAANANAIsrael
  • UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA · HaifaIsrael
  • WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE · RehovotIsrael

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union