LEAF · heaL thE plAnet's Future
Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2022-03-01 → 2023-10-31
- EU contribution
- €300,250
- Participants
- 7
- Scheme
- HORIZON-CSA
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Results in brief
LEAF: heaL thE plAnet's Future
The main objective of the LEAF ("heaL thE plAnet’s Future") project was to increase the awareness on the importance of research and innovation and to improve trust in the researcher's work by effectively involving the society in experimenting science through hands-on events focused on a set of EU Green Deal selected topics, summarised as: 1. Increase the awareness on the importance of research and innovation: enlarging the public’s interest on the EU Green Deal topics. 2. Improve trust in researchers' work, by bringing researchers closer to the general public. 3. Better understanding of the key benefits that research brings to society in daily life 4. Reduce the stereotypes about researchers and improve gender equality in STEAM 5. Increase the interest of people in pursuing scientific careers: In this respect, to achieve all the project objectives, Frascati Scienza realized, only in the 2023 edition, almost 500 events onsite (in 32 Italian cities) and online, with approximately 28000 participants, increasing all the results already achieved in 2022 edition. The program was divided into two sections: one for schools and one for the general public. Approximately 2300 people were involved in the organization, including 1956 researchers or workers in scientific sectors: among them, there were 21 researchers having benefited from Marie Sklodowska-Curie schemes and 84 having benefited from EU support (FP7, H2020…), other than MSCA. The "Researchers@Schools" activities have been very successful among both LEAF23 partners and schools, confirming what observed in 2022, and in the two editions of LEAF project we reached, overcoming the starting targets, almost 12000 Students, from 3 to 19 years, from 99 schools located in 43 Italian cities. Moreover, 237 researchers have been involved in this kind of activity. This result clearly showed the success of the EU Commission to insert a dedicated WP for activities inside schools and the enthusiasm of the involved researchers and institutions to go inside schools to directly meet students and teachers.
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Project objective
Starting from the encouraging results of the LEAF (heaL thE plAnet's Future) project in 2021 NIGHT edition, we are now proposing a step forward to increase the awareness on the importance of research and innovation, to improve trust in the researcher's work by effectively involving the society in experimenting science through 600 events. All activities will cover EU Green Deal topics (Farm to Fork, Biodiversity, Circular economy, Zero-pollution, toxic-free environments, Health & Wellbeing, Energy and resource efficient buildings, secure energy, sustainable and smart mobility). The main goal is to make science accessible and fun to everyone, thus generating a practical understanding of how to cope with climate change issues. The LEAF project will be developed in 21 cities in Italy, involving 39 partners with a series of events happening during the last week of September 2022 and 2023 thus including the NIGHT. LEAF 22-23 project will include a series of specific activities dedicated to schools to permit researchers to engage with teachers and pupils on challenges related to climate change, sustainable development, health and other issues related to the European Commission priorities such as the European Green Deal. In particular, in this edition we will reinforce the experience at school through a dedicated work package on researchers@school involving institutes located in small towns with difficulties in reaching NIGHT events. First year will be devoted to fulfill the achievements reached in last editions while in 2023 our main goal will be the improvement of project KPIs thanks to the validation of the researchers@school activity. The overall result will be a relevant increase in the awareness of why and how the researcher's work is relevant for the benefit of our current and future planet, as well as effectively encouraging young people in embarking in scientific careers by generating a real impact on science.
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
- ASSOCIAZIONE FRASCATI SCIENZA · FRASCATICoordinatorItaly
- LIBERA UNIVERSITA MARIA SANTISSIMAASSUNTA · RomaItaly
- OSPEDALE PEDIATRICO BAMBINO GESU · ROMAItaly
- UNIVERSITA CAMPUS BIO MEDICO DI ROMA · RomaItaly
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PARMA · PARMAItaly
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA TOR VERGATA · RomaItaly
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI ROMA TRE · ROMAItaly
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