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HEScience and society2022–2024

SEARCH · Science, Environment, Art, Research

Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2022-04-01 → 2024-03-31
EU contribution
€220,879
Participants
23
Scheme
HORIZON-CSA

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Results in brief

Science, Environment, Art, Research

SEARCH is an ambitious effort to help overturn the challenges related to misinformation, distrust in science, limited access to quality teaching or science for under-served communities in smaller or remote settlements in Bulgaria. Universities and research institutes join forces with industry, entrepreneurship, public and local authorities, schools and NGOs, expanding cooperation and effective links. SEARCH brings Bulgarian researchers closer to the general, non-specialist public with a focus on families, pupils and students, and increasing awareness of research and innovation activities, to strengthen the public recognition of researchers and the impact of their work on citizens´ daily life, and encouraging young people to embark on research careers.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

Science is the poetry of reality and 15 Bulgarian universities, research institutes and NGO partners join together in SEARCH to prove the statement that, combining Science + Environment + Art will bring Resilience for European Researchers Night in 2022-23. The experienced consortium led by Center for Research & Analysis and numerous associated partners bring longitudinal insight from their own 5 years’ partnership as well as EU and national findings in this 24-month project which aims to assert among the general public the crucial role of science in society and its relevance to everyday lives, and heighten young people’s interest in research careers, including of those from small towns and villages, and young people with disabilities. True to our approach, our country-wide, hybrid, multidisciplinary, hands-on programme of science and art events will focus on one central topic per year – the most versatile material in human history and its essential role in society, for technological, scientific and economic advancement – glass (UN International Year of Glass 2022), and the most urgent existential choices humanity needs to make – adapting to climate change, one of the new EU Missions supporting the European Green Deal. SEARCH for the popular formats of researchers’ public engagement like inspiring talks, spectacular shows and hands-on experiments, a range of sci-art collaborations, researchers at schools activities, and the innovative Young Voices podcasts and Instagram Looking Glass competitions. We will reach 3.6 mln, and engage with 30,000 direct participants online and offline, including teachers and school pupils, and along with boosting public engagement skills of researchers and teachers, we will demonstrate irrevocably how relevant, exciting and important the job of researchers is, and encourage young Bulgarians, especially girls and people with special needs to choose STEAM careers.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • ZENTYR ZA IZSLEDVANE I ANALISI · SOFIACoordinatorBulgaria
  • AGROBIOINSTITUTE · SofiaBulgaria
  • Asociatsia na mladite poliarni izsledovateli · SofiaBulgaria
  • BALGARSKI GEOGRAFSKI PORTAL-GEOGRAF BG · SofiaBulgaria
  • CHIMIKOTECHNOLOGITCHEN I METALURGITCHEN UNIVERSITET · SofiaBulgaria
  • Dolna Mitropolia Municipality · Dolna MitropoliaBulgaria
  • FORUM DEMOCRIT · SofiaBulgaria
  • INSTITUT PO BIORAZNOOBRAZIE I EKOSISTEMNI IZSLEDVANIYA BALGARSKA AKADEMIYA NA NAUKITE · SofiaBulgaria
  • INSTITUT ZA ETNOLOGIYA I FOLKLORISTIKA S ETNOGRAFSKI MUZEY PRI BULGARSKA AKADEMIYA NA NAUKITE · SofiaBulgaria
  • INSTITUTE OF FISHING RESOURCES - VARNA · VarnaBulgaria
  • INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY BAS · VarnaBulgaria
  • Luben Karavelov Regional Library · RuseBulgaria
  • MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SOFIA · SofiaBulgaria
  • MEDITCINSKY UNIVERSITET-PLOVDIV · PlovdivBulgaria
  • NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ART · SofiaBulgaria
  • NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY · SofiaBulgaria
  • RUSENSKA TARGOVSKO INDUSTRIALNA KAMARA · RuseBulgaria
  • SOFIA TECH PARK JSC · SofiaBulgaria
  • TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY - GABROVO · GABROVOBulgaria
  • TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA · SofiaBulgaria
  • UNIVERSITET PO ARCHITEKTURA STROITELSTVO I GEODEZIJA · SOFIABulgaria
  • University of Ruse ""Angel Kanchev"""" · RuseBulgaria
  • ZABAVNA MATEMATIKA · SofiaBulgaria

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union