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Peter Rebernik: Science Festivals - dialogue person to personScientix European Conference, 6-8 May 2011, BrusselsTRANSCRIPT
1Peter RebernikScience Festivals
2What – in this European world – is a science festival?
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Was Mozart a famous PAINTER?
A renowned particle physicist? Marylin Monroe?
And who is Tut-ench-Amon?
5Peter Rebernik
Is an electron bigger or smaller than an atom?
When is the earth closer to the sun?In summer or in winter?
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About what did you talk last Sunday withyour family, friends, relatives
Colleagues etc.?About sports, fashion, cooking, cars…?
Or did you talk aboutsulphuric acid, protons, pharaohs, Darwin,
carcharodon
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Project WondersExchange of festivals
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2WAYSTwo Ways
for Communicating European
Research in Life Sciences
in Science Festivals & Science
Centres/Museums,Science Parliaments and Impact Survey
under the Topic:“Life Sciences –
Opportunities and Threats”
30 Partners,
each 2 develop presentation for their festival about modern research in life sciences
each one local „science parliament“,
each one „impact study“ – then
FINALS in Brussels, European Parliament, Natural History Museum
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European Science Events
Association[EUSCEA pronounced as “you see”]
Peter Rebernik, General SecretaryVienna, Austria
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We talk science with the citizens!
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Members in:Abu Dhabi, Austria , Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, and United Kingdom… in 36 countries
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Type of members (all organise science events):State government, ministries, chamber (BE, EL, IE, NO)
City Government (DE, ES, SE)
Research Council (ES, IS, MT, NO, SE)
Scientific Organisation, Academy of Science (BE, BG, CZ, FI, IT)
University (CH, FI, FR, IS, IT, LV, PL, PT, RO, RU)
Museum (BE, DE, HU, IL, LU, NL)
Non-profit Associations (BE,CH,CY,DE,DK,EE,ES,FI,FR,IE,IT,LT,PL,PT,SE,SI,UA, UK)
Small Enterprises (AT, CZ, EL, HU, RO, SE)
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What is a science festival?
A modern, interactive, personal & engaged, two-way communication
method for science communication – always contact with PERSONS!
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What is a science festival?
Festivals reach new audiences for interest in science – festivals go out TO the people also special events for migration, disabled, social groups…
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What is a science festival?
The events are organised mostly in places unusual for science, like railway stations, public places, in shopping malls, churches, museums, light houses in tents, in parks, at the seaside
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What is a science festival?
A platform for dialogue of the public with the scientists about scientific issues of importance for society – with “concerned” scientists as “partners”
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Festivals take place every year for several days – in every country of the EU (and many other countries) – with great media impact and large & NEW audiences [Estimation: per year > 20 million]
What is a science festival?
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Events are presented mainly by scientists, by students, TEACHERS, sometimes pupils, even actors – in many different ways from lectures to experiments, theatre performances, science cafés, dialogue games (science parliaments, DECIDE), from workshops to camps outside, and guided tours, science taxi…
What is a science festival?
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Examples:
• DE: Rust in the Europapark• UK: Edinburgh – the first big science festival• SE: Gothenburg within city administration• IT: Genua (young) and Perugia (fortress)• ES: Madrid (fair) und Barcelona (region)• PL: Wroclaw (Religion), Warschau (Picknick) +Kielce, Torun, Nysa, Kraków
• SI: Ljubljana (Museum of Modern Art)• EE: Tartu (Agency Science Center)• LV: Kaunas und Vilnius• FR: Paris (banlieue)• IL: Jerusalem
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Festivals consists of many presentations in a city, like Genoa, Göteborg in a region, like Catalan around Barcelona in a country, like Denmark, UK with thousands of presentations
What is a science festival?
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Festivals deal with different kinds of science (taught at European universities): natural sciences and technology (STEM), humanities and sociology – discuss the role of politics, of law, of the media, of the education system, of religion – and listen to the communities
What is a science festival?
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Festival presentations for specific target groups from kindergarten to seniors, from special interest groups (health, economy, sport, law, gender, fire brigade, cyclists, gardeners) to journalists, policy makers, managers special pre-programmes for teachers
What is a science festival?
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Cooperation with many other institutions e.g.: universities and schools, NGOs, museums, media, research centres, city marketing and administration
What is a science festival?
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We, EUSCEA, work for the EUROPEAN DIMENSION
of science festivalsfor European collaboration of
science communication stakeholders
Science festivals?
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• Meeting place for old/new organisers of science festivals• Networking between stakeholders of science festivals• Exchange of professional information and experiences• Distribution of models for best-practice
• Finding new ways for communication, new target groups
• Assisting in improving quality and professionalism• Assessing the European dimension
Objectives, Tasks of EUSCEA
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New festivals
Motivate new festivals, e.g.:• Croatia, Serbia• Lithuania (with Vilnius and Kaunas)• Latvia (Riga, Daugavpils)• Estonia (AHHAA in Tartu)• Moscow (State University), now Novosibirsk• Murcia, Spain• Hungary (palace of Miracles)• Ukraine
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• 2001: Started with 26 member organisations
• 2010: 100 member organisation from 36 states (including EU)
• Ten EUSCEA Annual Conferences [AT, DE, PL, IT, ES, IS, PT, CZ, IT, DE, next in Gothenburg, SE on 13/14 May 2011]
• EUSCEA SEMINAR on organising festivals
Facts
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• First EU project EUSCE/X – analysing European science festivals; result: WHITE BOOK on science festivals
• EU project WONDERS 2006 with 21 Carousel Events; Launch in Vienna, Finals in Helsinki + ECSITE, EUSJA[BE, CH, DE, DK, ES, FR, FI, IL, IT, LT, LU, NL, NO, PL, PT, SE, SI, UK]
• EU project WONDERS 2007 with 31 Carousel Events; Launch in Berlin, Finals in Lisbon + EUN, EUSJA[BE, BG, CZ, DE, DK, EE, EL, ES, FR, HU, IE, IL, IS, IT, LU, LV, NO, PL, PT, RO, RU, SE, SI, UK]
• EU project 2WAYS with 7 consortium members and 30 Partners
[AT, BE, BG, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, IE, IL, IT, LV, PL, PT, SE, UK]
Special Activities
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Special Activities
Participations at various festivals and conferences: >> 6 times participating at the Korean Science Festival; >> Communicating European Research in Brussels, >> ESOF Stockholm, Munich and Barcelona, >> EU presidency (e.g. Grand Palais, Paris), >> PCST in South Africa, in Göteborg/Copenhagen, Malmö >> Science Festival in Beijing, AAAS in the US etc.
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S E M I N A R
Peter Rebernik
“Now,YOU can tell me
what you think about science festivals!”
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