SOCIETY — in Search Of Certainty - Interactive Event To inspire Young people

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in Search Of Certainty - Interactive Event To inspire Young people

SOCIETY (in Search Of Certainty – Interactive Event To inspire Young People) European Researchers' Night (ERN) events took place, as planned, in 5 cities of Emilia-Romagna region (Italy), covering a large and very active territory, in terms of research and business. Since Bologna is the main city of the region (local capital city) as well the place in which the first University in the Western world was born and all the partners have the main facilities (laboratories and departments), Bologna hosted the most part of the activities planned for the Night events. UNIBO also organized the activities in Forlì, Cesena, Ravenna and Rimini, where University of Bologna's campus districts are located (University of Bologna is the most extensive of all Italian universities and one the most popular in terms of enrolled students, around 84000). In addition, events were held in Predappio and Faenza, where university facilities or courses were available. Besides the main and general objectives of European Researchers' Night, SOCIETY aimed to produce a flexible and effective Night co-design approach, in which researchers together with society at large conceived the event programme. The co-design strategy was intended to achieve these specific following goals: o Inspiring secondary schools students on embracing research and science career, especially in Europe; o Favouring a cultural change which can contribute to shrink gender inequalities in research employment and career choice; o Fostering the alliance among local research community and society at large, including citizens, schools, media and industrial players ; o Mobilising a broad range of societal interlocutors in discussing the relevance of research and innovation for all citizens through activities during the Night and actions on website and social media ; o Stimulating researchers to creatively and effectively communicate their work and their passion for research to the public. The project has reached its objectives and proved to be successful.

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SOCIETY (in Search Of Certainty – Interactive Event To inspire Young People) European Researchers' Night events will take place in 5 cities (Bologna, Forlì, Cesena, Ravenna and Rimini). SOCIETY aims to present research as the best tool to investigate solutions, ideas and innovations to sort out the Societal Challenges that human beings face. In order to achieve its objectives, SOCIETY will rely on interactivity and engagement at large: the project will specifically aim to produce a Night co-design approach, in which researchers together with society will conceive the event programme.SOCIETY project will be extended to two editions of ERN, in 2016 and in 2017, with a project duration of 18 months. The line-up of each Night event will be structured as a subway map, with different lines and stops. Each line will represent an interdisciplinary pathway in some specific big topic for which researchers are trying to find some possible solutions and ideas. The two events will maintain the same overall theme, but a relevant evolution in public collaboration, which will support the design of the programme event, will be envisaged. The co-design of ERN events will act as a concrete lab experience for European researchers in structuring a bottom-up public communication event. The public will have a key role in the project, not only as target, and will be engaged to collaborate in the outline of an event tailored for societal interests.Researchers and research will benefit from this approach as a whole in terms of public support and acknowledgement of the importance of research work for society.SOCIETY Night events will be designed in order to attract different kinds of publics . However, secondary school students, who are about to make their choice in terms of career, will be a privileged target, also through the involvement of Eu and MSCA researchers.Specific activities will be addressed to encourage female young students to embark on scientific and research career.

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ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA · BolognaCoordinatorItaly
CINECA CONSORZIO INTERUNIVERSITARIO · CASALECCHIO DI RENO BOItaly
CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE · RomaItaly
FORMICABLU SRL · BOLOGNA BOItaly
ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI ASTROFISICA · ROMAItaly
ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI FISICA NUCLEARE · FrascatiItaly
ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA · RomaItaly

SOCIETY · in Search Of Certainty - Interactive Event To inspire Young people

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in Search Of Certainty - Interactive Event To inspire Young people

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