MADRIDNIGHT · Researchers and citizens: facing together the European challenges
Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2022-05-01 → 2024-04-30
- EU contribution
- €300,000
- Participants
- 14
- Scheme
- HORIZON-CSA
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Results in brief
Researchers and citizens: facing together the European challenges
The European Researchers’ Night in Madrid aimed to highlight the important role researchers’ labour in our society and its contribution to the improvement of societal welfare, not only running the engine of technological innovation but also by their enhancement of knowledge acquisition in Europe. The MADRIDNIGHT project was addressed to citizens of the Region of Madrid that aimed to bring researchers and their work closer to the public at large and to promote research careers among young people without gender barriers from very early ages. To achieve this goal a continuous and wide-ranging awareness campaign was launched combining the traditional communication vectors (written press, radio, TV or street adverts) with the contemporary ones (virtual media or social networks and platforms). The event aimed to attract as much people as possible by transmitting the main messages of the Night, i.e: Science is built by all of us and for all of us; and emphasise the exceptional role of Researchers, which live amongst us, and the importance of the sciences to face the global challenges.
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Project objective
The European Researchers' Night in Madrid will bring together researchers to the general public and will increase awareness of the importance and benefits of research and innovation, creating an understanding of the impact of researchers' work on citizen's daily life, and raising young people’s interest in science and research careers.The project will achieve these objectives by means of festive activities to be carried out in the Region of Madrid in the morning and evening of the last Friday and Saturday of September 2022-2023. Pre events and post events will be also organized. The Madrid Night project also includes Researchers at Schools activities throughout the year. In these activities, researchers will be visiting schools, allowing teachers and pupils to engage with them on important topics faced by our societies, such as those included in the missions in Horizon Europe: cancer, adaptation to climate change, healthy oceans, seas coastal and inland waters, climate-neutral and smart cities and soil health and food. Students and teachers will also visit the researchers’ workplaces. The MADRIDNIGHT activities will be addressed to public at large, science-addicts and science-reluctant, children, families, teachers, elderly, people regardless their scientific background with a special focus on families, pupils, and students, with the main purpose of encouraging STEM subjects and science careers, university students and also vocational education and training students. Different activities will be offered focused on the missions in Horizon Europe. The project will involve researchers, benefited by EU funds, especially the MSCA. The activities will point out the transnational and diversity aspects of research, showing the attractiveness of their jobs that can be done everywhere in Europe. Universities, research centres, museums, hospitals, NGOs, foundations and Industry (Spin offs, SME or Large Companies) in the Region of Madrid will be at the core of the project.
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
- FUNDACION PARA EL CONOCIMIENTO MADRIMASD · MadridCoordinatorSpain
- AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · MadridSpain
- FUNDACION IMDEA AGUA · Alcala De Henares MadridSpain
- FUNDACION IMDEA SOFTWARE · Pozuelo De AlarconSpain
- FUNDACION SECTOR PUBLICO ESTATAL CENTRO NACIONAL INVESTIGACIONES ONCOLOGICAS CARLOS III · MadridSpain
- FUNDACIÓN IMDEA NUTRICIÓN · MADRIDSpain
- Fundacion IMDEA Energia · Mostoles MadridSpain
- ORGANIZACION DE ESTADOS IBEROAMERICANOS PARA LA EDUCACION LA CIENCIA Y LA CULTURA · MadridSpain
- UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE MADRID · MadridSpain
- UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID · Getafe (Madrid)Spain
- UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID · MadridSpain
- UNIVERSIDAD DE ALCALA · Alcala De Henares/MadridSpain
- UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID · MadridSpain
- UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS · MostolesSpain
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