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H2020Science and society2016–2017

CREATIVITY · European Researcher's Night in France

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2016-05-01 → 2017-11-30
EU contribution
€417,790
Participants
11
Scheme
CSA

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Results in brief

European Researcher's Night in France

Objectives of the project: Towards the general public o To attract a public not familiar with science; o To offer the audience an opportunity to maintain a connection with research after the event (Such as involving high school students in new ideas search and related challenges, through permanent contacts with researchers via mail, direct visits…) o To help the public understand the research process through an active involvement (particularly the ideas and challenges); o To point out the EU support through the involvement of foreign researchers involved EU funded projects; o To stress the international character of the research community (notably through ‘The Great Participatory Experiment’); Towards both general public and researchers: o To bring together researchers and members of the public around common activities (creativity, challenges), stressing the "normality" of the researchers and pointing out the own resources of the audience; o To stress the common interests between researchers and public at large; Towards researchers o To encourage researchers to accompany the attendees in understanding/discovering science; o To point out the added values of popularisation, namely: public participation, new partnerships, possibility of sharing one's experience, new glance on own work thanks to this of the audience… o To offer a reliable and precise picture of the public perception of researchers and their work; Towards the media o To point out the possibility of talking about European research, facilitating their access to researchers and their backgrounds, and involving them in the creative interactions The project fully achieved its objectives and the actions undertaken proved to be successful in all venues and locations

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

We are proposing ERNs for 2016 and 2017 in 12 French cities. Our consortium of 11 partners will organise afternoons for schoolchildren, events in the cities and, above all, evenings where 1000 researchers will meet up to 30,000 people a year. The general public will be able to meet a number of researchers directly and experience something memorable with them. Since 2006, we have acquired a solid knowhow in the “art of interaction”. In 2014-2015, we went one step further by including the public in the actual research experiments, thereby creating scientist-citizen cooperation. We will renew these experiences and go even further: we are encouraging the public and researchers to experience creative moments together!Several creative interactions will be set up, around the “Ideas” theme in 2016 and the “Impossible?” theme in 2017, to allow researchers and the public to interact.The evenings will be full of ideas, challenges, and encounters with diverse individuals. In this way, we will rally European researchers to get involved in each city. Specific strategies will be used (such as public radio recordings) to allow them to share their European experience.These moments of cooperation will without a doubt reinforce the mutual appreciation between researchers and citizens. Our communication strategy (attracting specific audiences through networking, web, partnerships with youth-oriented press, etc.) will be based on the slogan: “General Creativity”. This slogan denotes the interactive nature of the evening and gives us a chance to talk about the richness of European research. To this effect, and for the first time, Cédric Villani, an inspiring and renowned researcher, has accepted to be the ERN’s patron. Lastly, we plan to renew the “Great Participatory Experiment” in 2017. In each city (and perhaps even Italy), the public will contribute to the same playful scientific experiment chosen in 2016 after a challenge involving all our research institutions.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • UNIVERSITE BOURGOGNE EUROPE · DIJONCoordinatorFrance
  • ASSOCIATION CAP SCIENCES-CENTRE DE CULTURE SCIENTIFIQUE TECHNIQUE ET INDUSTRIELLE BORDEAUX-AQUITAINE · BordeauxFrance
  • ASSOCIATION TRACES THEORIES ET REFLEXIONS SUR L APPRENDRE LA COMMUNICATION ET L EDUCATION SCIENTIFIQUES · ParisFrance
  • BREST'AIM SA · BrestFrance
  • COMUNAUTE D'UNIVERSITES ET ETABLISSEMENTS UNIVERSITE DE LYON · LyonFrance
  • Centre de Culture Scientifique et Technique d'Angers Terre des Sciences Association · AngersFrance
  • FONDATION PARTENARIALE DE LUNIVERSITE DE LIMOGES · LimogesFrance
  • LA COMMUNAUTE D UNIVERSITES ET ETABLISSEMENTS DE TOULOUSE · TOULOUSEFrance
  • UNIVERSITE D'AIX MARSEILLE · MarseilleFrance
  • UNIVERSITE DU MANS · Le MansFrance
  • UNIVERSITE MARIE ET LOUIS PASTEUR · BesanconFrance

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union