Explainers & visitor services
Malvina ArtheauDidier LavalGène Bertrand
Science centres are wonderful places to ignite curiosity and raise awareness about science or technology topics. But how good are they when it comes to stimulating visitors to start their own projects, to build with others or to co-create with a...
Exhibit development
Anna SchaefersLenka MynarovaCornelia ReichertInes PRIETOGérard Cobut
The consensus: texts and exhibits in an exhibition have to be scientifically correct. The question: how do we come by this correctness and what does “correct” actually mean? Science Centres and museums often employ teams of experts to ensure the...
Research, theory & evaluation
Carole PalecoAnna OmedesHenrik Sell
Citizen Science can result from various recipes, and notably from a participative or a collaborative process. Some institutions collaborate with amateurs for their research and together produce data that nourish science. Some are good at...
Exhibit development
Paula BäckmanAntonia CaolaYuko OkayamaJohn DowneyPäivi GarnerDorothée Vatinel
In a science centre environment, language is of great importance. How much language support should we provide to our visitors? Should we expect our staff to be bilingual? The choice of languages can be a tricky question, as well as their order...
Tuomas OlkkuHeidi RosenströmClaudia VelhasIan Brunswick
As an industry, we are able to share and copy good practices more freely than many other fields of business. Sometimes the best way to learn is to move into a new culture and work side by side with peers there. A new face in the organization can...
Andrea Illy
Andrea Illy is the Chairman and CEO of illycaffè S.p.A., a family coffee business founded more than 80 years ago. Watch his speech on Ecsite's YouTube channel.
In 2012...
Colin JohnsonLukas RichterIya PetkovaElton MicallefAli ÇetinkayaVictor Manuel Simões Gil
Are you planning to set up a new science centre? If so, this is the session for you. You will meet people who are now in the throes of opening a new centre. Come and learn from their challenges and successes. Ask about exhibit procurement,...
Explainers & visitor services
Ian SimmonsJohn DowneyElin Roberts
Humour eases all sorts of communication – where does it work when communicating science? Panellists will share their thoughts on successful uses of humour in science communication and on not so successful ones and invite thoughts from the...
Michael CreekJan RiiseErnesto Paramo SuredaAntonio Gomes da CostaLeonardo AlfonsiLuigi Amodio
Science communication at the urban level has been in the spotlight in the very last years and thanks to European projects, building partnerships at the local level is becoming more widespread. At the same time experiences developed in some...