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Annual Conference sessions

The first Ecsite Conference took place in 1989. Here you can browse all Conference sessions since 2010. Use the search engine to look for people, topics...

Looking for an older session? Our digital records start in 2007, with programme pdfs attached to each conference page

Exhibit development

In this session, speakers have five minutes to propose one thing they would like to ban from science centres and museums for good. Maybe it’s the one exhibit that they’d love to see the back of, or the one lazy idea that they are sick of finding...

Explainers & visitor services

Today, educational research is facing a complexity of personal and physical aspects associated with the learning process. Therefore, instruments for gathering data, such as questionnaires or mind maps, become more elaborate and specific in order...

Explainers & visitor services

The aim of the session is to share and discuss manifestation of humour in our science communication activities, our science centres and museums. Does humour help in any way? It adds a “fun factor” to the visitors’ experience and makes people...

Exhibit development

The biodiversity crisis, climate change, and major environmental changes create uncertainty and anxiety concerning our future. We now live with the threat of disasters that could profoundly affect our lives. Yet it is important to avoid passivity...

Science ♥ society
Jacqueline McGlade

Jacqueline McGlade is the Executive Director of the European Environment Agency since 2003. She has worked extensively in North America, Asia and Africa; she has published more than 100 research papers, written popular articles, presented and...

Technology

Mobile applications offer a wide range of new ways for discovering complementary content, before, during and after the visit. Some of them work on dedicated systems, others on standard devices. Some carry content, some bring interaction. This...

Education

Produced and published by science centres in an appealing format, science popularisation books, especially those meant for children, reveal science centres’ concerns. Their purpose is to get youngsters informed about topical issues, to provide...

Collections

Natural history museums and science centres stress that biodiversity deserves protection. Many museums display old specimens, sometimes of extinct species. Can they take the risk of using those “unfortunate ambassadors of biodiversity” to engage...

Outreach

Science LinX, the University of Groningen science centre, links formal to informal education and addresses a target group usually considered risky or difficult, 14 to 17 year old teens, using the BètaMentality Model. This model maps the drives of...

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