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FRESHER · Find Research Everywhere, SHare and expERience

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2020-05-01 → 2021-04-30
EU contribution
€130,056
Participants
20
Scheme
CSA

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Results in brief

Find Research Everywhere, SHare and expERience

Building on the Consortium’s existing understanding developed through previous local initiatives including Researchers Night, and addressing findings of research, the project FRESHER focused on enhancing public engagement with research and shortening the gap in the decision of young people and girls in particular to choose STEAM careers. FRESHER combined an interdisciplinary approach to the International Year of Plant Health, which was the central topic of the Night. This topic also lent itself successfully across all disciplines represented through our Consortium partners, to provide a comprehensive view of how science relates to the lives of people. Specific objectives of the project were to Increase public engagement in and selection of education pathways, research and innovation careers; to Contribute to overcoming stereotypes of researchers and transform them into role models who are accessible, creative, public and supportive members of society; to Improve citizens’ engagement in and access to the results of research and their understanding of the impact of science on all aspects of their lives; to Upgrade communication skills of active researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs and stimulate their appetite to engage with various groups of non-specialist audiences, sustaining and developing young people’s research curiosity.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

Twenty partners in Bulgaria come together for European Researchers Night ‘20 to present FRESHER (Find Research Everywhere, SHare and expERience) - a 12-month project led by the Centre for Research & Analysis, in a Consortium, now in its 5th year, with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, universities, research institutes, the only Bulgarian tech park, a chamber of industry and commerce, the local office of a pan-European organisation, education entrepreneurship, and associate partners. FRESHER offers a series of specially curated, coordinated, multi-day participatory events at over 50 venues and 30+ schools in 25 cities/towns/villages. The talks, shows, hands-on experiments, lab visits, citizen research, competitions will reach 3.6 mln, and engage directly with 30,000 in face-to-face events at schools, libraries, museums, academic and outdoor venues, public transport and online. Building on well researched, popular formats for researchers’ engagement with the public, FRESHER provides multidisciplinary content around the International Year of Plant Health. The topic will feature in the programmes of all partners to assert the relevance of research to everyday life. Building on the Consortium’s existing understanding developed through previous local initiatives including Researchers Night, and addressing findings of research (MASIS report, Education & Training Monitor 2019 for Bulgaria, Women in Digital Scoreboard 2019, Science, Research & Innovation Performance in EU 2018), FRESHER focuses on enhancing public engagement with research and shortening the gap in the decision of young people and girls in particular to choose STEAM careers. The activities will step on previous evaluation and generate fresh, aligned data. The project will strengthen the capacity of all partners to organise accessible events for the general public, and to tailor messages for underserved audiences, including girls, young people at risk of school drop-out, as well as people with special needs.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • ZENTYR ZA IZSLEDVANE I ANALISI · SOFIACoordinatorBulgaria
  • AGROBIOINSTITUTE · SofiaBulgaria
  • BALGARSKI GEOGRAFSKI PORTAL-GEOGRAF BG · SofiaBulgaria
  • BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES · SofiaBulgaria
  • CHIMIKOTECHNOLOGITCHEN I METALURGITCHEN UNIVERSITET · SofiaBulgaria
  • FORUM DEMOCRIT · SofiaBulgaria
  • INSTITUT ZA ETNOLOGIYA I FOLKLORISTIKA S ETNOGRAFSKI MUZEY PRI BULGARSKA AKADEMIYA NA NAUKITE · SofiaBulgaria
  • INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY BAS · VarnaBulgaria
  • MARITSA VEGETABLE CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PlovdivBulgaria
  • MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SOFIA · SofiaBulgaria
  • MEDITCINSKY UNIVERSITET-PLOVDIV · PlovdivBulgaria
  • MINNO-GEOLOZHKI UNIVERSITET ST IVANRILSKI · SOFIABulgaria
  • NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY · SofiaBulgaria
  • NATSIONALNA SPORTNA AKADEMIYA VASSIL LEVSKI · SofiaBulgaria
  • RUSENSKA TARGOVSKO INDUSTRIALNA KAMARA · RuseBulgaria
  • SOFIA TECH PARK JSC · SofiaBulgaria
  • TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY - GABROVO · GABROVOBulgaria
  • TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA · SofiaBulgaria
  • THE BRITISH COUNCIL ROYAL CHARTER · LONDONUnited Kingdom
  • University of Food Technologies · PlovdivBulgaria

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union