April 2022

#75

Time to reflect

FEATURES

IN-DEPTH

From place to space: libraries and civic engagement by Alexandre Vanautgaerden

LOOKOUT

Tinkering for learning, equity, and social inclusion

COLUMN

Time to pause and reflect on Spokes by Catherine Franche & Maria Xanthoudaki

From the Ecsite office Ecsite Conference From Ecsite European Collaborations Good reads and resources Opportunities

Spokes is edited by Ecsite, the European network of science centres and museums.

From place to space: libraries and civic engagement

In depth

How librarians went from possessors to custodians - and how it can inspire us

From place to space: libraries and civic engagement

Alexandre Vanautgaerden

Tinkering for learning, equity, and social inclusion

Lookout

School, museum or prison: the potential of Tinkering for creating more equitable STEM learning environments

Tinkering for learning, equity, and social inclusion

Paul Hix

Irina Fritz

Vera Ludwig

Maria Karnezou

Harald Mattenberger

Marenka de Vries

Judith Bal

Inka de Pijper

Paul Boniface

Maria Xanthoudaki

Time to pause and reflect on Spokes

Column

Re-inventing your magazine in line with the new Ecsite strategy

Time to pause and reflect on Spokes

Catherine Franche

Maria Xanthoudaki

From the Ecsite office

Support for Ukraine: a shared resource

Check out our evolving list of ideas, actions and initiatives by science engagement organisations.

The Heureka planetarium in the colours of the national flag of Ukraine

Ecsite President speaks at European Knowledge Valorisation week

"Turn the whole of Europe into a living lab", urged Bruno Maquart at this event organised by the European Commission on 29 March & 1 April.

Call for host: 1st ever International Directors Forum

Ecsite is joining forces with ASPAC, ASTC, NAMES, RedPOP and SAASTEC to bring together 200 CEOs from the science engagement field in Europe in November 2023. Full Ecsite members, apply to host this event by 15 May.

Communications internship

A 3-4 month student placement with the Ecsite team, starting September 2022. Apply by 31 May.

Join the Ecsite team as a communications and events intern

Welcome new Ecsite members

Ecsite is delighted to have recently welcomed seventeen new members into the community.

Ecsite Conference

One month left to register!

Heilbronn Marketing GmbH/Roland Schweizer

Exhibit at the Conference's trade fair

There are still some exhibition booths available for the Business Bistro. Check out our offers.

Have you considered a booth a the Business Bistro ?

Making #ecsite2022 sustainable

Learn how Ecsite and experimenta science centre are making the upcoming Ecsite Conference sustainable.

Call for hosts for 2024 and 2025

Ecsite Full members have until 30 April to submit an application to host a future Conference.

From Ecsite European collaborations

How science can fight fake news

RETHINK joined forces with its "sister project" TRESCA and organised an online event last month, exploring how science communicators can counteract misinformation. Read the event report on Science|Business for day 1 & day 2.

A starter's guide to Open schooling

A great info pack with case studies and planning tools, by the Make it Open project.

Glimpse of the Make it Open info pack on Open schooling

New platform for Open Schooling projects and communities

You checked out the info pack listed in the previous item and now want to start your own Open schooling project? This platform put together by the SALL project could be your next stop to share & interact with others.

A glimpse of the SALL community platform

Homepage of the SALL community platform

Tapping into the potential of digital: 40 DOORS pilots selected

The small and medium-sized museums involved in the first incubation phase will now be working to refine their project.

Good reads and resources

Special JCOM issue: participatory science communication for transformation

Chosen echoes from 2021 the online conference of the Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) Network 2021.

Museums as community infrastructure

The 2022 edition of the excellent yearly Trendswatch by the American Alliance of Museums is out.

Moving European Researchers’ night online: did it change audience diversity?

The answer is found in this piece comparing inclusion indicators for 2019 and 2020.

Toward more accessible social media

Discover Accessible Social, a free online resource.

Cover of the accessible-social.com resource hub

Bring Your Own Devices

Extended reality experiences are increasingly relying on visitors to use their own devices, but what does it mean for museums, asks this piece published on MuseumNext?

Paving the way for ethical sponsorship

A Museum-iD piece on navigating the path towards ethically sound, financially viable, and fit for purpose partnerships.

Climate crisis: how museums could inspire radical action

Read this invitation to re-imagine museums by two UCL researchers on the MuseumNext website.

Exploring the spaces where the sciences and the arts meet

An issue of Consilience featuring poetry and art from across the world that explore the scientific topic of entropy.

Riding the Twitter wave

Enthusiasm for the social media platform changed science communication during the pandemic—but will it last, asks this piece in Science?

News from Blooloop

Our partner in the attractions sector has news on the growing number of visitors in museums in 2021 and on how to make museums more sustainable.

Opportunities

SELECTION OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES, CALLS AND COURSES

Check out our updated list of what to attend and when to apply

Photo by The Climate Reality Project on Unsplash

Get ready for International Museum Day, 18 May

Check out the #IMD2022 communications kit put together by ICOM.

IMD2022 poster

Job: Outreach & Public Engagement Officer

Life sciences lab EMBL is recruiting an Outreach & Public Engagement Officer in Heidelberg, Germany. Apply by 5 May.

Send your paper proposal for the SECAT Virtual Conference

Contributions relating to science, communication and trust are welcome. Submit your abstract for the Scientific Expertise, Communication and Trust Conference before 1 May.

Submit your paper on science communication reinvention

For the international conference "Reinventing Science Communication? Challenges for the post-truth era", Ljubljana, Slovenia, 13-14 October 2022. Deadline for paper submissions: 30 April.

Science Europe Open Science Conference 2022

Science Europe is organising its first conference on Open Science on 18 and 19 October 2022. Visit the event page for further information.

Scicomm and Innovation Online Master

The University of Trento, Italy, is accepting applications for the Online Master in Communication of Science and Innovation for year 2022-2023 until 29 April.

Museum leaders to speak at greenloop sustainability conference

Leaders from museums and cultural attractions will speak at the virtual conference on 19 and 20 April.

Ecsite thanks the writers who have generously contributed to this issue of Spokes. Have an idea for Spokes? Check out the contributors' guide and get in touch.

Spokes is the monthly digital magazine of Ecsite, the European network of science centres and museums. It is put together by the Spokes Editorial Committee:

Maria Xanthoudaki, Head of Education and International Relations, Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milan, Italy – Chairperson
Helen Wilks, Communications Manager, Ecsite, Brussels, Belgium – Editor
Michèle Antoine, Director of Exhibitions, Universcience, Paris, France
Andrea Bandelli, Executive Director, Science Gallery International, Dublin, Ireland
Raquel da Cunha, Communications and Events Manager, Ecsite, Brussels, Belgium
Alex Fairhead, Group Head of Exhibition Services, Science Museum Group, London, UK
Roxanne Gillon, Communications and Events Intern, Ecsite, Brussels, Belgium
Frank Kupper, Assistant Professor of Science Communication, Athena Institute - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Matteo Merzagora, Director, TRACES, Paris, France
Marta Trzeciak, Specialist in Science Events and Programmes, Experyment Science Centre, Gdynia, Poland

Responsible editor: Catherine Franche, Executive Director for Association européenne des expositions scientifiques, techniques et industrielles, aisbl

Frequency: monthly since April 2015 and quarterly from January 2021 - issue 75, April 2022