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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

Strategy & vision

Martin Rees, Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, gave a speech entitled "Space exploration, life and the cosmos".

The space age is little more than 50 years old but space technology already pervades our...

Science in Society
Tânia Margarida CostaPenny FidlerAna Noronha

At its heart, science is a practical, hands-on subject. Scientists must explore, test, experiment and investigate over time and across nations to gain new insights of how we humans, and the world around us works. However, the amazing careers and...

Design
Sara SummersMoeko TABATADavid TombolatoDave Patten

How do we communicate scientific information effectively through colors, shapes, animations, and other visual means? Visualization enables visitors to think in creative ways about the information in front of them, bringing brand new perspectives...

Networking & Partnerships
Barbara StreicherAntonia CaolaBernard AlauxLaurence Muller

How do science centres link with the innovation sector (companies, research institutions, etc.)? Do we go beyond treating partners as potential sponsors by inviting them as active subjects in shaping our content? Do we convey to our audiences...

Science in Society
Michel BOUFFARDSylvestre MauriceGil DENISChristophe BONNAL

With a vast number of challenging space missions and a wealth of discoveries in recent years, space is providing innovative tools for a rapidly changing world.

In this dedicated session, you are invited to a series of lively...

Science in Society
Micol MolinariBeth HawkinsJane DowdenBeth Hawkins

It is vital to remember that science is never ‘fact’ but comprises a set of models that best explain the way the world works. Will these theories change? Only time will tell. As scientists and science communicators, we must always keep the...

Networking & Partnerships
Grace KimbleSavita Custead

Biodiversity invaded the media space in 2010. Many messages surrounded us; endangered species, climate change, proliferation, preservation… But how do scientists study biodiversity in the field and in the lab? How do species relate to each other...

Explainers & visitor services
Marjelle van Hoorn

Social media is everywhere. Individuals and institutions use it all the time. Social media can influence the way people perceive time and space. The ideas of time and space are changed through social media; the museum space gets bigger and bigger...

Networking & Partnerships
Alain COINEAlain COINESharon AmentMaría Menéndez

Some enterprises, institutions and research centres want, through science centers, to promote scientific and technical culture to the general public and in particular to the youth and wish to have key issues, challenges and themes addressed in a...

Explainers & visitor services
Gunnar BehrensIan RussellIrena CieślińskaAnna Schaefers

You only have so much time to help visitors understand how to use an exhibit before they turn away in fustration. How can 3D design, graphics and text be used to help visitors engage with your exhibit without patronizing or asking too much of...

Science in Society
Kati TyystjärviLiisa JuustilaJulie MoskalykDRONEAU PHILIPPE

The role of a science centre in its local community is a many-sided issue. Recently it has been discussed in connection to PLACES, a European project developing a common platform for science centres and museums, local actors and citizens....

Outreach
Ed SobeyMoeko TABATAVarda Gur Ben Shitrit

The role of science centres is not limited to the four walls of a building. They have the expertise to make their engagement activities work from a distance, to go to where the people are, and to reach wider and new audiences, switching them on...

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