BRIGHT-NIGHT · BRIGHT-NIGHT Researchers’ impact in everyday Life
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2020-06-01 → 2021-05-31
- EU contribution
- €100,000
- Participants
- 7
- Scheme
- CSA
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Results in brief
BRIGHT-NIGHT Researchers’ impact in everyday Life
The BRIGHT-NIGHT project aims to improve the visibility and image of researchers among the common people in the Tuscany Region, simultaneously with all the initiatives of the European Researchers' Night (ERN). After 6 years, the name BRIGHT was refresh for the new edition adding “NIGHT” for playing on the concept that it will be a night in which the future will seem brighter thanks to the outcome of research and the passion of researchers. The project lasts from Friday to Saturday on the date scheduled for ERN: hundreds of fun and exciting activities involving the main Tuscan cities, followed on from a set of preparatory events. Main topics: the 20th anniversary of the European Charter of Rights and the 2030 Agenda of the United Nations. Overall objectives - Setting up a two-way exchange of knowledge and expertise (scientists to people) and expectations (people to scientists) - Performing two days of entertainment linked by a set of preparatory events. Researchers will be there showing what they do, the problems they are trying to solve, disseminating the achieved results. The atmosphere will be informal, with a mix of friendly science talks, food, wine, music and theatrical performances, within everybody’s grasp, from children to elderly people. - Making pupils, students, young people and their families interested in a research career to increase the number of would-be scientists; - Engaging academies, other research institutions, local and regional authorities, funding agencies and other stakeholders in a common action - Stressing the relevance of the European dimension and international supporting networks as the typical framework for researchers to best carry out their activities; - Synchronizing and merging all the events of the BRIGHT-NIGHT partners and collaborating bodies - Putting in place a science-people interface through a double way of engagement of researchers and the general public Conclusions The specificity of the 2020 edition, designed and realized totally online, has determined the settlement of new workflows and the definition of a unique place of the event - necessarily virtual - which has constituted a further element of aggregation among the partners of the consortium.
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Project objective
The BRIGHT-NIGHT project aims to improve the visibility and image of researchers among the common people in the Tuscany Region, simultaneously with all the initiatives of the European Researchers' Night (ERN). The name BRIGHT, coined in 2013 and used in the subsequent ERN editions, was kept for the 2020 project because it is now established and recognizable throughout the entire academic community, the media and the population of Tuscany at large. Nonetheless, after 6 years it was deemed advisable to refresh the brand for the new edition adding “NIGHT” for playing on the concept that it will be a night in which the future will seem brighter thanks to the outcome of research and the passion of researchers. The project is scheduled for the year 2020 and will last from Friday to Saturday on the date scheduled for ERN. In these two days there will be hundreds of fun and exciting activities that will involve the main Tuscan cities, that will follow on from a set of preparatory events. The 20th anniversary of the European Charter of Rights and the 2030 Agenda of the United Nations constitute the framework within which the topics will be developed and declined in the directions of social and environmental sustainability. BRIGHT-NIGHT will involve the population, and in particular young students from primary and secondary schools, through the project of some scientific citizens and through pre-events spread throughout the period. This long-term involvement aims to create a strong link between researchers (who will also participate in a course on scientific communication), young students and the general population in order to make researchers more ""familiar"" and better understand to people how researchers work and live and why to trust them. The locations of the activities are: university premises, museums, botanical gardens, institutional buildings and especially streets and squares in the city centres.""
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE · FlorenceCoordinatorItaly
- SCUOLA IMT (ISTITUZIONI, MERCATI, TECNOLOGIE) ALTI STUDI DI LUCCA · LuccaItaly
- SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE · PisaItaly
- SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO S ANNA · PisaItaly
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI SIENA · SienaItaly
- UNIVERSITA DI PISA · PisaItaly
- UNIVERSITA PER STRANIERI DI SIENA · SienaItaly
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