MEDNIGHT · MEDITERRANEAN RESEARCHERS' NIGHT (2024 AND 2025 EDITIONS)
Horizon Europe — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2024-03-08 → 2025-12-07
- EU contribution
- €674,236
- Participants
- 14
- Scheme
- HORIZON-CSA
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Results in brief
MEDITERRANEAN RESEARCHERS' NIGHT (2024 AND 2025 EDITIONS)
The Mediterranean Sea connects more than 500 million people across three continents, creating a shared history and identity with common challenges. The goal of Mediterranean Researchers' Night - MEDNIGHT is to promote unity across the Mediterranean region by raising awareness about common issues, promoting scientific careers, and highlighting the importance of science and scientists. MEDNIGHT offers a range of activities under the umbrella of "Mediterranean Science," which focuses on 7 pillars relevant to sea pollution, climate change, diet and nutrition, life and health, technology and future, history and cultural heritage, geology and biodiversity . The program also emphasizes the potential of R&D as a source of progress and well-being, particularly for female researchers and young people. The consortium organizes a variety of online and in-person activities in cities across the Mediterranean region, as well as in satellite cities. Mednight falls under the European Researchers' Night, which aims to display the diversity of science and its impact on citizens' daily lives in fun, inspiring ways on the last Friday of September every year. Mednight has received funding for 2 consecutive years under this grant agreement (2024 and 2025) and is unique both in the way that it unites research centres, universities, researchers, scientists, cities, schools and citizens across the Mediterranean (Spain- France – Belgium – Italy – Greece - Tunisia – Turkey – Cyprus) through a common consortium and in the way that it implements a wide range of activities at a transnational level, not only during the Night itself (September 27th 2024 and September 26th 2025) but also during the months leading to the Night in order to motivate, prepare and engage all target audiences in multiple ways. Mednight's main objectives can be summarised as follows: ● Showcase science, scientific activity and its actors as a source of progress and well-being. ● Highlight the impact of scientific activity in our daily life. ● Emphasize the science developed by women. ● Empower and engage students in STEM areas. ● Show how rewarding it can be as a scientist to participate in research projects. ● Identify the diversity of existing options at the end of the scientific studies while reducing taboos and prejudices about people who develop scientific careers. ● Acknowledge the different skills acquired through a scientific career. ● Strengthen the open character of our scientific research. ● Increase the awareness of the collaborative and European nature of science.
Data: CORDIS, © European Union
Project objective
More than 500 million people on three continents are united by the world's largest sea, the Mediterranean. Our strategic geographic location and shared history gives us a common character as well as common challenges. The objective of Mediterranean Researchers' Night - MEDNIGHT is to generate Mediterranean unity, providing awareness about common problems, fostering scientific careers, reinforcing researchers’ commitment and progress, and putting science and scientists at the cornerstone of our future.MEDNIGHT shows the attractiveness and importance of the researchers’ work and professions to the general public, with a focus on young people, carrying out a series of activities framed under the common umbrella of what we have come to call Mediterranean Science, a source of progress and well-being. Mediterranean Science relates to research developed in our territories but also the countless collaborations with other EU researchers. Mediterranean Science is focused on Mediterranean relevant topics according to our culture, way of life or current challenges: History and Heritage, Life and Health, Diet and Nutrition, Sea and Pollution, Climate and Clean Energies, Geology and Biodiversity, Technology and Future.Many online and face-to-face diverse activities will be organised by MEDNIGHT consortium in Messina, Lesvos, Xanthi, Nicosia, Istanbul, Brussels, Monastir, Montpellier, Toulouse, Madrid, Almeria, Orihuela and Tabarca (Main cities) but also Athens, Patras, Limnos, Rhodes, Syros, Eyupsultan, Kadikov, Guardamar, Torrevieja, Santa Pola, Nantes, Larnaca among others.The evolution, expansion and at the same time consolidation of the pillars of MEDNIGHT are being clear, with partners from eight different countries: Spain, Greece, Italy, France, Cyprus, Turkey, Tunisia and Belgium. All together they give solidity to the brotherhood between Mediterranean countries around the culture of science, as opposed to the conflicts that occur in our Mediterranean
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MESSINA · MessinaCoordinatorItaly
- ATHINA-EREVNITIKO KENTRO KAINOTOMIAS STIS TECHNOLOGIES TIS PLIROFORIAS, TON EPIKOINONION KAI TIS GNOSIS · MAROUSSIGreece
- CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE TOULOUSE · TOULOUSE CEDEX 3France
- CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · ParisFrance
- CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES ENERGETICAS MEDIOAMBIENTALES Y TECNOLOGICAS · MADRIDSpain
- EL CALEIDOSCOPIO PROYECTOS DE CIENCIA Y CULTURA SL · ELCHESpain
- EPISTIMI EPIKOINONIA · CHALANDRIGreece
- European Women Rectors Association · Bruxelles / BrusselBelgium
- FUNDACION MUSEO DIDACTICO E INTERACTIVO DE CIENCIAS DE LA VEGA BAJA DE SEGURA DE LA COMUNITAT VALENCIANA · ORIHUELASpain
- INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE · ParisFrance
- KADIR HAS UNIVERSITESI · IstanbulTürkiye
- MARIE CURIE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION · Bruxelles / BrusselBelgium
- PALAIS DES SCIENCES DE MONASTIR · MONASTIRTunisia
- SCICO CYPRUS LTD · NicosiaCyprus
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Data: CORDIS, © European Union