DoReMi-RO · Doing Research Midnight in ROmania
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2020-07-01 → 2021-02-28
- EU contribution
- €95,250
- Participants
- 15
- Scheme
- CSA
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Results in brief
Doing Research Midnight in ROmania
15 of the most prestigious universities and research institutions, distributed throughout the entire Romanian territory, covering the main educational cities (Bucharest, Constanta, Cluj, Craiova, Timisoara, Iasi, Sibiu, Suceava) have joined forces to engage the Romanian public in a nation-wide exercise of changing the perception about the current research and innovation activity in which these institutions are involved, permanently connected as in a grid with similar institutions from all over the world, and especially with the European ones. Covering various topics in the field of science, highlighting the importance of research in the technological evolution, the EU-funded DoReMi-RO Night project aims to increase knowledge on researchers’ work through minds-on experiments and to create an understanding of the impact of scientific results on citizen's daily life. Constrained by the pandemic evolution of Covid-19, the public outreach activities carried out in online format further underlined the need to raise awareness of the research. More than ever, the public understood both the need to develop a vaccine through research and to ensure its distribution in the European Community.
Data: CORDIS, © European Union
Project objective
Doing Research Midnight in ROmania (DoReMi-RO)2020 is the International Year of Sound, an area of high importance for science and technologies for all in modern society. Our team goal is to join the European Researchers’ Night event in Romania with this initiative, in order to emphasize both research activities and technological development mixed with sounds and music: DoReMi-RO. The promotion and dissemination of the research results among young people, in one day event, is at the same time welcome but also insufficient. For the moment the kids' curiosity will be sparked but on the next day they feel that everything is beautifully solved in science and there is not much left to do. Then, the research as a career might be unattractive. After a single successful evening, as the Night is, the event must be transformed into a new public challenge based on the well-known concept of collaborative engagement. Thus, the general objective of the project is to raise awareness on research results baked by experiments, involving the participants in a particular citizen science project whereby researchers and the public are working together. The collaborative process will take place before, during and after the Night event and aims to make the magnetic map of Romania. All together will use common smartphones to measure the magnetic field, throughout Romania. The anonymous collaborative public have to send us the measured data, along with the GPS coordinates, uploaded on an internet web-platform. DoReMi-RO event will be held in more than 15 cities, spread throughout entire Romanian territory, among which: Baia Mare, Brasov, Bucharest, Cluj, Constanta, Craiova, Iași, Pitesti, Timișoara, Sibiu and Suceava. All proposed activities are represented by various minds-on and open-air activities: hands-on experiments, debates about collaborative engagement types, games, quizzes, organized in an amusing and stimulated manner by real researchers.
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
- UNIVERSITATEA ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA DIN IASI · IasiCoordinatorRomania
- INSTITUTUL DE FIZICA ATOMICA · MAGURELERomania
- INSTITUTUL DE STIINTE SPATIALE · BucurestiRomania
- INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA LASERILOR PLASMEI SI RADIATIEI · Magurele / IlfovRomania
- INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA MATERIALELOR · MAGURELERomania
- INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE DEZVOLTARE PENTRU OPTOELECTRONICA INOE 2000 · MagureleRomania
- INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA PAMANTULUI · Magurele-BucurestiRomania
- INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU FIZICA SI INGINERIE NUCLEARA-HORIA HULUBEI · MagureleRomania
- UNIVERSITATEA BABES BOLYAI · Cluj-NapocaRomania
- UNIVERSITATEA DE VEST DIN TIMISOARA · TIMISOARARomania
- UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCURESTI · BucurestiRomania
- UNIVERSITATEA DIN CRAIOVA · CRAIOVARomania
- UNIVERSITATEA LUCIAN BLAGA DIN SIBIU · SibiuRomania
- UNIVERSITATEA MARITIMA DIN CONSTANTA · ConstantaRomania
- UNIVERSITATEA STEFAN CEL MARE DIN SUCEAVA · SUCEAVARomania
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Data: CORDIS, © European Union