SHARPER · Sharing Researchers’ Passion for Evidences and Resilience

Sharing Researchers’ Passion for Evidences and Resilience

The SHARPER goal is to make the researchers’ passions accessible and comprehensible to everybody, starting from young generations, through engaging communication formats and activities that take place in unusual venues and make the researchers’ life a shared experience with a large audience in Italy. Researchers are evidences hunters, their passion for facts, data and observations collected, accumulated and interpreted with a constant and patient day by day activity, is one of the researchers’ main features. It is usually combined with their ability and commitment to use these evidences to tackle some of the more complex issues that are relevant to all of us: from fundamental research problems such as those related to the origin of the Universe or the structure of our brain to technological endeavours and societal challenges. The constant quest for evidences reveals, not only their insatiable curiosity but also their passion for challenging the limits of our knowledge and innovate going beyond the known, being able to accept and adapt to the changes or, in a sentence, to show a profound passion for resilience. The combination of these researchers’ passions for identifying and understanding facts and for wisely adapt and evolve by innovating and the opportunity for citizens to meet them, seems to be vital in a constantly changing society. The acronym SHARPER - Sharing Researchers’ Passion for Evidences and Resilience summarizes all these elements. SHARPER night was held in 12 cities: Trieste, Pavia, Ancona, Macerata, Perugia, L'Aquila, Napoli, Caserta, Palermo, Catania, Cagliari and Nuoro. --- To convey the message that a researcher is a passionate person who loves to engage with complex issues relying on facts and observations that can be accessible to everyone to plan the future and innovate; --- To stress that the researchers enjoy the dialogue with all the social actors to reach common goals through a shared knowledge; --- To motivate young students to enter researcher careers and become key actors of the future; --- To tell that strong collaboration between researchers and citizens aiming together at excellence triggers innovation; --- To broaden the meaning of what we call researchers beyond any stereotypes; --- To provide motivated audiences with opportunities of deeper knowledge of the researchers’ work; --- To encourage children to discover researchers as role models because they are passionate and knowledgeable; --- To use researchers’ emotions and enthusiasm to make excellent research accessible and comprehensible to everyone, from young students to adults; --- To develop a national community of researchers that are excellent communicators The project has reached its objectives and proved to be succesful.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union