Education
This workshop offers a firsthand experience of the numerous education and engagement resources on nanotechnology developed by three European projects: NANO TO TOUCH, Time for Nano and Nanoyou. Experiments, demonstrations and programmess designed...
Education
Mathematics: Queen of Sciences or poor relation? In this reverse session, three organisations show how they have used three different methods to engage three different audiences with mathematics. What they have in common is that they all make...
Operations & finance
The actual economic crisis has an impact in every sector of activities and our field has also been impacted but effects depend also on the degree of the financial self-supporting of our institutions and on the way we have reacted. This session...
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...