FAWORIT 2018-2019 — Fascinating World of Researchers in the Age of Technology – Cultural Heritage & the New Generation of Innovators

Results in brief

Fascinating World of Researchers in the Age of Technology – Cultural Heritage & the New Generation of Innovators

The main objectives of “FAWORIT 2018-2019”, the European Researchers’ Night in Hungary in 2019, were: o Capture public imagination and involvement of the citizens into the programmes of the NIGHT allowing them a better understanding of the benefits of R&I. The thematic awareness raising (Brain Star, Fake News, targeted Facebook ads, etc.) will ensure this goal as well as local organization and awareness raising of the venues; o Increased number of female researchers in the long run – our project strives to encourage the youth and especially girls to embark on a research career. The participation of the Association of Hungarian Women in Science as leader of the awareness raising campaign (WP1) and organiser of one of our venues as well as targeted actions (e.g. special Science Cafés dedicated to this, participation in Girls’ Day, a special “Girl Innovator Award”) will contribute to reach this goal; o Better involvement of all societal actors in the whole R&I process – by focussing our project proposal on the thematic elements of Responsible Research and Innovation (public engagement, gender, science education, cultural heritage) we would like to create understanding and acceptance of science and innovation and its results; o We also aim at raising awareness of the European engagement in the field of research and innovation and better understanding of the European Union among the general public through three dedicated European Corners and smaller EU Booths at each venue to make the EU and its R&I policy and programmes (FP7, H2020, especially MSCA) more visible for all citizens. All the programmes’ and communication strategy’s purpose consisted of illustrating that being a researcher is cool and creative and researchers and young innovators are amongst us. Our visitors’ numbers increased from year to year, and as we attracted this year more than 23.111 people, and with the strong communication strategy we could reached about 1,000,000 people with our message. More than 620 researchers were involved in the activities, 20 of these benefitted from MSC schemes and 41 of these benefitted from EU support (FP7, H2020) other than MSCA.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

The main objective of our proposal is to present researchers from several aspects in order to get them closer to the general public and to encourage the youth – with a special focus on girls – to embark on scientific careers. We will apply a mission-oriented, impact-focused approach in our project in which interdisciplinary challenges, innovative solutions, (young) researchers, their work and hobbies will be presented in an interactive, educating and entertaining way to stimulate the interest of citizens towards R&I and to bring it closer to their expectations and concerns. A special attention will be given to the role of R&I in discovery, preservation and demonstration of cultural heritage; the bridges between STEM and cultural heritage will be demonstrated. As the consortium and the cooperating partners represent well the relationship of the knowledge triangle, the involvement of many different actors across various disciplines and sectors will achieve a high impact and make researchers and innovators' work familiar to various age groups. Our main target group is students of age 6-26, but we aim to address all age groups – siblings, parents & grandparents – with attractive programmes. The target audience can thus discover that being a researcher is cool and creative and not only researchers, but young innovators are also amongst us. Our objective is to have at least 30000 visitors on our 24 venues on the two-day event, but a multiple of that number (at least 1000000) will see, hear or read about the NIGHT. Our venues cover the whole country. We expect at least doubling them by organisations joining the NIGHT – the most important science communication event in Hungary – as the result of the awareness raising campaign. We intend to raise awareness of the European engagement in R&I through the participation of H2020 projects with a special focus on MSCAs. In the European Corners and at each venue related programmes of the European Union will be visible.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

REGIONALIS INFORMACIOS ES FEJLESZTO TUDASKOZPONT KORLATOLT FELELOSSEGU TARSASAG · BudapestCoordinatorHungary
BAY ZOLTAN ALKALMAZOTT KUTATASI KOZHASZNU NONPROFIT KFT. · BudapestHungary
HETFA KUTATOINTEZET KFT · BudapestHungary
NOK A TUDOMANYBAN EGYESULET · BudapestHungary
TUDOMANYOS ISMERETTERJESZTO TARSULAT · BUDAPESTHungary

FAWORIT 2018-2019 · Fascinating World of Researchers in the Age of Technology – Cultural Heritage & the New Generation of Innovators

Results in brief

Fascinating World of Researchers in the Age of Technology – Cultural Heritage & the New Generation of Innovators

Project objective

Participants

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