ERNI2020 · European Researchers' Night Israel 2020
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2020-05-01 → 2021-04-30
- EU contribution
- €185,000
- Participants
- 13
- Scheme
- CSA
Lines connect the coordinator with its partners.
Results in brief
European Researchers' Night Israel 2020
Ever since the European Researchers' Night project initiated, our consortium used it to strengthen ties between the academic community and the public at large, bringing scientists to meet the public at eye level. We are proud to say that over the years we have achieved that goal by running venues all over the country in both main cities and the periphery while partners also engaged the public by outreach activities at local pubs, cafes, and community centers. We have moved forward with that important concept and opened new venues that will bring scientists to a new audience to increase the number of young people that will personally meet scientists. This year, following the COVID-19 pandemic we ran an online event attracting more than 14,562 registered users (families) who engaged in 4.7 activities on average which in terms of an online event during an era of online events is a phenomenal success. Global objectives: 1. Enhancing public recognition of researchers and their work by providing the public and most particularly the younger generation, countrywide, with an opportunity to meet researchers within the context of festive activity and to promote interest in science, as well as to highlight the appeal of pursuing a research career. 2. Render science and scientists more accessible to the public-at-large, with a view to diminishing stereotypes about researchers and their profession. Researchers will demonstrate their hobbies alongside their scientific careers to help remove any stereotypes. 3. Celebrate researchers' and scientists' achievements under the main them of our current times "Science Makes Reality" which is strongly tight to the situation in which we were all waiting for the COVID-19 vaccine. This main theme was chosen to emphasize the important role of scientists and science in our life. 4. Ensure that the ERNI2020 awareness campaigns will be disseminated to the public in the broadcasted, printed, and electronic media, on both national and local levels, in order to reach an estimation of two and a half million people (~30% of the population). 5. Giving the NIGHT a competitive edge in order to call the public to join "yet another educational online event" in an era of the pandemic. 6. Highlight the involvement and contribution of the EU to researchers and research in our virtual campus. the project has reached its objectives and proved to be successful
Data: CORDIS, © European Union
Project objective
With successive 14 years of successful NIGHTs, support (in time, efforts and funds) from the Israel Ministry of Science and Technology, more than 55,000 visitors a year, one Guinness World Record, 14 venues countrywide from Kiryat-Shmona in the very north to Eilat in the very south and a national TV, national radio and major newspapers coverage, our strong consortium, which consists of 13 major institutions in the Israeli academic community, is committed to European Researchers' Night success. All of the partners which will take part and operate 2020 European Researchers' Night event already have the experience and took part in previous European Researchers' Night events. Our consortium consists of the major research universities in Israel (including the Hebrew University and the Weizmann institute), leading research institutions, education collages and major science museums (including the National Museum of Science which will also coordinate the project for the 10th times in a row). Each partner in the project will invest its own funds (as always in ERNI since 2005) which also helps ensure partners' commitment for project success. Partners will also run activities with researchers outside of campuses. Researchers will visit local cafés, pubs and community centers to meet the public close to their homes. We find it very important to reach those who are not usually visiting university campuses and museums to increase the number of people having the opportunity to enjoy face-to-face meetings with researchers. This type of action had proved itself as very successful for tightening yearlong cooperation between researchers and the community which is a direct accumulative result of the European Researchers' Night project we are very proud of. The Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) will fully fund our national awareness campaign as part of its commitment to the project. MOST involvement will ensure a massive national coverage for the awareness part
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
- MADATECH NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCIENCETECHNOLOGY & SPACE TECHNION DANIELAND MATILDE RECANATI CENTER · HaifaCoordinatorIsrael
- AL-QASEMI ACADEMY ASSOCIATION · Baqa Al GarbiahIsrael
- BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY · Ramat GanIsrael
- Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem (BSMJ) · JerusalemIsrael
- ISRAEL OCEANOGRAPHIC AND LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH LIMITED · HaifaIsrael
- MIGAL GALILEE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LTD · KIRYAT SHEMONAIsrael
- ORANIM ACADEMIC COLLEGE OF EDUCATION - THE KIBBUTZ MOVEMENT · TIVONIsrael
- SAMI SHAMOON COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING(R.A.) FRIENDLY SOCIETY · Beer ShevaIsrael
- TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY · Tel AvivIsrael
- THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM · JerusalemIsrael
- THE OPEN UNIVERSITY · RAANANAIsrael
- UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA · HaifaIsrael
- WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE · RehovotIsrael
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