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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

Marketing & communication

The session will be devoted to educational webpages of science centres. Which educational goals can we meet using webpages related to interactive exhibitions? What do schools expect and what can we provide? Are science centres and museums’...

Explainers & visitor services

Increasing numbers of science centres are asking themselves what extra things they can do to support and inspire talented students. Whether during a daytime visit, or as an after-school programme, there are number of opportunities to be grasped...

Media

More and more questions are raised by society to scientists. Some of them relate to risky topics which regularly hit the news. How can science centres tackle them? One way is to create a dedicated space in their institutions and produce science...

Education

When children come to a science centre they learn something from their experience. But what they learn and how learning is optimised are complex questions. Parents can play an important role in this, especially when very young children are...

Research, theory & evaluation

This session will discuss recent ideas and strategies on the complex topic of obtaining evidence of impact. An underlying aim is for us as a field to work together, rather than in isolation, to define, to determine, and to communicate to funders...

Education

One-stop leisure locations where visitors can enjoy different kinds of recreation are becoming more popular. A number of science centres are preparing or have already undertaken an expansion of the science centre with other activities in order to...

Operations & finance

Are we sometimes too cautious and colourless during the design process? Can a deliberately ‘risky’ approach sometimes enhance our creativity and produce a better visitor-experience?” In this session we will explore various...

Science in Society

In a modern world where different cultures often clash, scientific thinking is surely the best cure for intolerance. How can we help the public to evaluate information about science coming from sources which may or may not be reliable? Many...

Operations & finance

A maintenance insight. Have three different institutions found a good process? How is the key human factor involved and motivated in their task? Do they really understand what they are repairing? Are they sharing the same objectives than the...

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