Exhibit development
Christelle GuiraudThorsten-D. KünnemannAnne PrugnonOwain Davies
Designing and producing interactive exhibit is a complex process, involving many steps and variables. How do we keep a trace of this processs in order not to re-invent the wheel or repeat the same mistakes over and over?
How do we record...
Learning
Vesna PajićWendy SadlerIan RussellSilindile Mthembu
This session explores engaging diverse audiences to communicate global issues, drive development and cross cultural boundaries.
Examples from South Africa, Wales and Australia will illustrate how science show techniques can break down...
Strategy & vision
Maya HalevySheena LaursenDea BrokmanAliki GiannakopoulouMarjolein van BreemenMarisa Borges
European projects can be very attractive for science centres, museums or schools. These projects add to the variety of science engagement initiatives and activities that we can offer to the public and/or to schools. These projects help us...
Strategy & vision
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Equity & Inclusion
Andrea Troncoso QuilaqueoIgnasi López VerdeguerCarlos Catalao AlvesSheena LaursenSteve MillerAntonina KhodzhaevaMaria SchrammelViola PinziEva Zua ZuaMargit Hofer
This workshop provides a comprehensive training on Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), the ongoing process of aligning research and innovation with societal needs and expectations and one of the most important science policy trends in EU...
Learning
Jean-François Clervoy María MenéndezMarc MoutinAna NoronhaAude LestyTina IbsenFranco Bonacina Fiorella ColioloMichaela GitschMonica TaleviStefan Rozporka
In 2016, the Ecsite Space Group continues to explore the topic, “Space for life”.
During this two-days pre-conference workshop, Cité de l’Espace and Tycho Brahe Planetarium will present to the participants the work developed so far on the...
Learning
Naomi FosterNaomi Fosterfabrizio stavolaMeie van LaarPaul HixBence Fazekas
Join and try out tinkering activities with light, movement and mechanisms, and share your thoughts on a work-in-progress. These activities are being developed as part of TinkeringinEU, a collaboration across the EU creating and testing new...
Learning
Malvina ArtheauMelissa RichardDaniela De AngeliAntoine Blanchard
Why make a game in a science communication situation? How? For whom? What does a game do that nothing else could do better? What is the right balance between fun and content? How much does a serious game cost? And for what result?
During...
Learning
Petra Wagnerjeanette muellerjeanette muellerPetra Wagner
Human beings love to learn. Human beings love to play. Why do we primarily act with our linearity-trained mind in a non-linear world? In order to thrive in today's complex world, systems thinking offers a great variety of ways of making sense and...
Strategy & vision
Ian SimmonsAndy LloydMikko MyllykoskiRyan JenkinsAmparo Leyman PinoAnna Starkey
There are lots of great ideas for engaging the public with science out there - but do science centres and museums have to do them all?
We only have a certain amount of resources and it would be unwise to spread them too thin, so have to...
Marketing & communication
Wiktor GajewskiJessica HilliardTuomas OlkkuJulie BeckerAliki Giannakopoulou
Are you spending long hours lovingly putting together your organisation's newsletter? Are you anxiously following its journey into your readers' mailboxes, hoping to dodge their spam folders and escape a tragic "delete without opening" fate? Are...
Explainers & visitor services
Kate KnealeIsabelle Chabanon-PougetMatthieu VernetJohn SearMalvina ArtheauDaniela De Angeli
One day to trigger participants’ creativity, imagine one or several science-related game(s) and bring them to life through prototyping. Prototypes will then be beta-tested during the main conference, hosted in the...