SHARPER · SHAring Researchers’ Passion for Enhanced Roadmaps - The European Researchers’ Night in Italy 2022-2023
Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2022-04-01 → 2024-01-31
- EU contribution
- €982,000
- Participants
- 9
- Scheme
- HORIZON-CSA
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Results in brief
SHAring Researchers’ Passion for Enhanced Roadmaps - The European Researchers’ Night in Italy 2022-2023
SHARPER 2022/2023 project is the European researchers’ night in 14 Italian cities (Ancona, Cagliari, Camerino, Catania, Genova, L'Aquila, Macerata, Nuoro, Palermo, Pavia, Perugia, Sassari, Terni and Trieste), and it is taking place as part of the global cultural effort to enhance the dialogue between citizens and researchers. Through a diverse set of engagement strategies and communication formats, citizens of all ages have been meeting researchers from different fields, discovering the strong connection between their daily job and society at large. Within this context a new effort was developed to enhance the involvement of students and teachers with a specific set of programs developed all year round in schools of all Italy, namely the program “Researchers at school”. The main SHARPER’s objective can be summarized as follows. • to support students to better understand the researchers’ world and to encourage them to enter researcher careers and play a role in shaping the future; • to provide teachers with effective tools to foster the dialogue between researchers and young generations; • to motivate young students to enter researcher careers and play a role in shaping the future; • to encourage children to discover researchers as role models because they are passionate and knowledgeable • to convey the message that researchers are passionate persons who have a key role in tackling global challenges starting from the more urgent ones such as the climate change impact and the global sanitary emergencies • to encourage strong collaborations between researchers and citizens aiming at knowledge-based innovation • to create social inclusion within the research process overcoming different social divides; • to use researchers’ emotions and enthusiasm to make research accessible and comprehensible to all; • to develop a national community of researchers who are also excellent communicators and connected within Europe with other researcher communicators.The expected qualitative impact of the project is to reinforce the collaboration among all the actors involved to improve the citizens’ engagement with researchers.
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Project objective
SHARPER brings together young generations, citizens, and researchers to develop roadmaps to a better and desirable future. Researchers are passionate about future, and they constantly design, adapt and implement roadmaps to contribute to build it. This process increasingly involves young generations and citizens at large and make researchers and citizens “travel mates”. Curiosity driven choices and social needs together mould researchers’ agendas and generate roadmaps that need to be constantly enhanced to effectively tackle new challenges. Researchers are increasingly at the heart of this process and the acronym SHARPER – SHAring Researchers’ Passion for Enhanced Roadmaps describes their attitude to constantly evolve action plans to be key players within the society. SHARPER 2022 and 2023 will let citizens and researchers share this endeavour through engaging activities focused on the 5 missions of the Horizon Europe work programme. SHARPER involves 14 cities in 8 regions across Italy: Ancona, Camerino, Cagliari, Catania, Genoa, Macerata, L'Aquila, Nuoro, Palermo, Pavia, Perugia, Sassari, Terni and Trieste through a diverse network of 9 consortium partners including Universities, Research Institutions, Museums, Social Enterprises and more than 200 stakeholders from the civil society, the cultural creative world, industry, research and education. A special collaboration is developed with the Education National System through association of teachers and regional educational offices. The project will consolidate and innovate the experience developed over the last 9 years triggering researchers’ and citizens’ engagement across Italy. SHARPER has a solid European dimension through a collaboration with 7 ERNs in 7 countries to develop creative online contents and formats, common strategies on impact assessment and researchers’ trainings. SHARPER also collaborates with other Nights in Italy to share ideas, communication and awareness actions.
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
- PSIQUADRO SOCIETA' COOPERATIVA - IMPRESA SOCIALE · PERUGIACoordinatorItaly
- ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI FISICA NUCLEARE · FrascatiItaly
- LABORATORIO DELL'IMMAGINARIO SCIENTIFICO SC · TRIESTEItaly
- OBSERVA ASSOCIAZIONE · VICENZAItaly
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI CAGLIARI · CagliariItaly
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI CATANIA · CataniaItaly
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PALERMO · PalermoItaly
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PERUGIA · PerugiaItaly
- UNIVERSITA POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE · AnconaItaly
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