ReFocuS Art · Road to Friday of Science and Art
Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2022-05-01 → 2023-12-31
- EU contribution
- €267,050
- Participants
- 4
- Scheme
- HORIZON-CSA
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Results in brief
Road to Friday of Science and Art
ReFocuS Art (Road to Friday of Science and Art) project aims to raise public awareness about the importance and positive role of science for and in society by bringing the researchers into the general public's focus. The 2020 year demonstrated the necessity for the state of the art of science in everyday life and large creativity in the research process to respond to contemporary challenges. Using Science is art as an overall theme, we want to promote the creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills of researchers and artists as an imperative for the development of science and society. In this way, we want to inspire and stimulate young people to be innovative and to seek creative solutions to different problems and challenges. Creativity, problem-solving, and critical thinking are fundamental for the careers of today's generations. The same skills are crucial for the researcher's career and instrumental in art as well. Science and art may have different subjects and audiences but share an investigative spirit, motivation, and skills. Both artists and researchers strive to see the world in new ways, and when they succeed in those endeavors, the general public acquires a novel perspective and new knowledge. Both are based on the process that can encourage creativity, critical thinking, and questioning the world around us. The project reached its objectives and proved to be successful. Reached overall objectives are: o Promote the creative thinking and problem-solving skills of researchers as an imperative for the development of science and society; o Inspire and stimulate young people to be innovative and to seek creative solutions to different problems; o Encourage scientists to enhance engagement with citizens in their research projects; o Exemplify partnership of citizens and researchers on important topics of public interest; o Explain science by using popular formats such as workshops, quizzes, interactive experiments, debates, scientific popular films, competitions, art, and scientific approaches, etc., instead of using the usual scientific articles; o Illustrate transparency and reproducibility of research; o Raise public awareness of the researchers’ contribution to general progress and development; o Improve/increase the trust of visitors in science/scientists; o Encourage and support the development of young people as future scientist generation; o Break stereotypes that stand in the way of young people, especially girls taking careers in science; o Promote and support networking and mobility of ideas among young people; o Highlight the importance of the EU support to researchers and scientific research in Serbia and everyday life in general; o Encourage EU-funded researchers to contribute and interact as much as possible with visitors by displaying their projects and promoting the use of research and o Improve networking with other national/international projects involved in science popularization through mutual support of events and exchange of ideas, experiences, and people
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Project objective
ReFocuS Art (Road to Friday of Science and Art) project aims to substantially raise public awareness about the importance and positive role of science for and in society by bringing the researchers into the focus of the general public. The 2020 year demonstrated the necessity for the state of the art of science in everyday life and large creativity in the research process to respond to contemporary challenges.Skills, such as creativity, problem-solving and critical thinking will be fundamental for the carriers of today's generations. We argue the same skills are crucial for the researcher career, and instrumental in art as well. Science and art may have different subjects and different audiences but share the investigative spirit, motivation and skills. Both artists and researchers strive to see the world in new ways, and when they succeed in those endeavours, the general public acquires a novel perspective and new knowledge. Both are based on the process which can lead to encouraging to use creativity and critical thinking, and questioning the world around us.This year, by using Science is art as an overall theme, we want to promote the creativity, critical thinking and problem-solving skills of researchers and artists as an imperative for the development of science and society. In this way, we want to inspire and stimulate young people to be innovative and to seek creative solutions to different problems and challenges.The activities will take place in the 14 cities and 46 diverse venues through Serbia, including research institutes, old streets and houses, museums, archaeological sites, fortress, science clubs, shopping malls, city parks and libraries. Some of the activities will be exclusively online, allowing reaching the public outside proposed cities. The diversity of partners in the project, both cultural and scientific institutions, will expand the general image of how and why science and researchers are important for society.
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