SCIENCEHOTEL · SCIENCE MEETS CITY
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2020-06-01 → 2021-05-31
- EU contribution
- €75,000
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- CSA
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Results in brief
SCIENCE MEETS CITY
Project has been teminated by Erasmus University because: • Science Hotel is not classified by CMT of the university as a meeting with priority. This not only means that no rooms can be reserved for this event (which is not such a problem as it would take place externally), but it also means that it is not a priority in terms of personnel and financial investment. • Erasmus University Rotterdam's policy is to postpone unnecessary events, both at EUR and externally. That is perfectly possible for this event, even if a subsidy has to be applied for again. • Moreover, the risk of failure is quite high: if we do not (cannot) strictly follow the corona measures, then that is a serious risk of negative perception. • Finally, an extra call is made on EUR staff, both support and scientific staff. These employees already suffer from a high workload, especially during the period in which the event is planned.
Data: CORDIS, © European Union
Project objective
Science Hotel is a festival where the general public in Rotterdam and its region meets with scientific researchers and is introduced in their research and its relevance for daily life. The theme of Science Hotel is ‘Science Meets City’ featuring the relevance of research for many aspects our lives in an urbanized world, such as sustainability, health, digitalization, AI, security and privacy, transport and mobility, trade and employment. The festival facilitates personal and interactive encounters between the audience and researchers in the form of interactive lectures, games, demo’s, tours and simulations. It invites the audience to step into the daily life of researchers and discuss research topics and their perception by societal stakeholders with the researchers, emphasizing that everyone is co-creating science one way or another. Dialogue is stimulated, enriched and sometimes distorted, by artists’ interventions arranged by Science Gallery Rotterdam. Pre-events mediated by the Science Street promotion team take place all over town during the month of September on places where members of the potential audience are: cultural festivals, social cultural centers in the neighborhoods of Rotterdam and shopping areas. Special pre-events will be offered for school pupils in primary and secondary education. You’re invited. Check in to Science Hotel!
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
- ERASMUS UNIVERSITEIT ROTTERDAM · RotterdamCoordinatorNetherlands
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Data: CORDIS, © European Union