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In this section you will find useful documents and information on science engagement in general, and Ecsite activities in particular. Browse through articles, toolkits, reports, websites...

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Resources

Report
Spokes resource
October 2016 - The Center for the Future of Museums' annual forecasting report, from the American Alliance of Museums. 2012 trends: Crowdsourcing | Threats to Nonprofit Status | Mobile, Pop-up Experiences | Alternate Funding | Creative Aging | Augmented Reality | New Educational Era
Category:
Education & learning
Keywords:
trends, museums, center for future of museums, strategy, foresight
Report
Spokes resource
October 2016 - The Center for the Future of Museums' annual forecasting report, from the American Alliance of Museums. 2016 trends: Labor 3.0 | The Spectrum of Ability | Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality | The Struggle over Representation & Identity | Happinesss
Category:
Education & learning
Keywords:
trends, museums, center for future of museums, strategy, foresight
Report
Spokes resource
October 2016 - What is on the five-year horizon for museums? A publication by the New Media Consortium
Category:
Education & learning
Keywords:
trends, policy, strategy, museums, nmc
Video
Spokes resource
October 2016 - This fun video translates complex concepts such as surfaces and surface phenomena, emergent and divergent phenomena, and selforganisationprocesses into understandable ideas through helpful animations.
Category:
Education & learning
Practical guide or toolkit
Spokes resource
October 2016 - Improving the understanding of environmental issues, participation in decision-making processes and bringing about behavioral changes in relation to our relationship with the Ocean – those are the underlying objectives of a new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) which launches on November 7th.
Category:
Education & learning
Keywords:
ocean, Ocean literacy, environmental, behavioral change, sea change
Book or article
Niccolo Hurst & Sparks
October 2016 - Interviews published in Spokes #23, October 2016
Three inspiring stories of citizens and researchers working together for better and more ethical healthcare | Estimated reading time: 10 minutes (2-3 min per interview)
Category:
EU and governance
Keywords:
#rri, Responsible Research and Innovation, healthcare, medicine, patients, DIY biology, sparks, user-led innovation, Spokes
Book or article
Rooftop restaurant DAK at the NEMO Science Museum, Amsterda. Pic: Wouter van der Sar
October 2016 - Feature article by Julie Becker published in Spokes #23, October 2016
Cafés and shops as brand ambassadors and mission delivery agents | Estimated reading time: 38 minutes
Keywords:
café, shop, restaurant, visitor experience, income, mission, branding, dialogue, healthy eating, making, Spokes
Report
Cover of 2016 Ecsite Conference evaluation report
Spokes resource
October 2016 - Participants qualitative feedback described the 27th edition as particularly cooperative and open. Read more.
Practical guide or toolkit
Copyright ESA/Rosetta/NavCam – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
Spokes resource
October 2016 - The exciting Rosetta mission gave many science centres and museums the opportunity to get involved in synchronized international events, to show live science, and to feel the excitement and tension of live operations! In 2016 the Ecsite Space Group prepared an update with the latest achievements of the mission and provided ready to use tools such as general scripts for each event with suggestions of activities.
Keywords:
#space group, #rosetta, #ESA
Material for workshops and exhibitions
Spokes resource
September 2016 - You can now download the mobile apps that have been produced as part of the SeeingNano project. Test the revolutionary app that helps you explore every day objects at the nanoscale using augmented reality. You can also play an online version of the memory game! The apps are available in Czech, Italian, Portuguese, Slovenian and Spanish.
Book or article
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September 2016 - Interviews published in Spokes #22, September 2016
Experienced Ecsite conference “regulars” share their ideas for original session formats | Estimated reading time: 10 minutes (1-3 min per interview)
Keywords:
#Ecsite2017, Ecsite annual conference, session proposals, session format, Spokes
Book or article
Training of researchers at the National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci
September 2016 - Feature article by Sara Calcagnini - Maria Xanthoudaki published in Spokes #22, September 2016
Reflections from two museum professionals training researchers in public engagement | Estimated reading time: 16 minutes
Category:
Education & learning
Keywords:
researchers, scientists, science engagement, facilitation, training, #scicomm, Spokes

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