2008 Ecsite Conference

Overview

The 2008 Ecsite Conference was hosted by the Hungarian Natural History Museum. In Budapest, we welcomed 797 participants. At the 2008 Annual Conference, participants discovered both sides of the Danube, as five major institutions came together for this event.

The venue of the conference was the Hungarian Natural History Museum. The Nocturne was kindly hosted by the Milenaris Center Kht. and the Palace of Miracles, again, a former Heavy Industry site that was lately converted into a science centre, exhibition complex and cultural centre. The consortium also included the Museum of Technology and Museum of Transport that hosted the farewell party.

See the 2008 Conference pictures here. 

Annual Conference Programme Committee

Ecsite thanks the following members of the ACPC for putting together a wonderful programme for this event. 

• Erik Jacquemyn (Chairperson) - Popularisation Collaborative
• Sally Duensing (Expert) - Consultancy
• Achim Englert (Expert) - Phänomenta
• Camille Pisani (Expert) - Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
• Roger Rocca Serra (Expert) - Fonds de dotation Universcience Partenaires
• Antonio Gomes da Costa (2007 Conference host representative) - Universcience
• Tibor Fuisz (2008 Conference host representative) - HNHM
• Luigi Amodio (2009 Conference host representative) - Fondazione IDIS - Città della Scienza
• Maria Xanthoudaki (2009 Conference host representative) - Museo Nazionale della Scienza e delle Technologia 'Leonardo da Vinci'
• Catherine Franche (Ecsite office representative) - Ecsite
• Aliki Giannakopoulou (Ecsite office representative) - Allinogermaniki Agogi SA