The MEDNIGHT activities, before and during the Night itself, were the beating heart of the European Researchers’ Night. All activities aimed to reach all citizens in participating cities and countries, regardless of age, sex, ethnicity, and scientific background. Moreover, a broad range of activities which cover different thematic areas, methodologies, and simplification levels were included.
The main scope of the activities was to:
● Directly and actively involve both the researchers and the public.
● Combine entertainment and education in science in an engaging and empowering way.
● Contribute to enhancing the public recognition and appraisal of researchers and their work.
The common theme of all the activities were to make visible, enhance and exchange knowledge related to the common problems of the Mediterranean countries, the science being developed to address them, to empower the researchers of the region, and to encourage science as a future development. The types of activities which were implemented across countries included talks, citizen science projects, scientists and artists shows, competitions, exhibitions, experiments, scientific games, workshops and guided visits, under the key eight thematic areas defined in the proposal: Geology and biodiversity, Sea and pollution, Climate and clean energies, Diet and nutrition, Life and health, Anthropology and History, Pioneer women scientists, Future.
During the months that lead to September but also on the actual MEDNIGHT itself, the project partners designed and implemented a series of events and activities which promote Mediterranean science and target different audiences, such as the educational ecosystem, the broad public, special audiences, universities, research centres, researchers and science and technology-based companies.
Activities ran by partners in each venue have covered a range of more than 300 activities which took place in more than 20 venues, reaching more than 750.000 people across the Mediterranean and beyond.
According to what was stated in the Grant Agreement, the following deliverables were produced in this reporting period:
D1.1 Report on awareness campaign
D1.2 Set of materials
D2.1 Report on activities during the night
D3.1. Report on impact assessment
D4.1 Report on management
Moreover, we have produced a webpage (
https://mednight.eu/(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)) with all contents freely accessible and many audio-visual contents, including a first version of a handbook for Mediterranean Science activities design and a Covid measures report to implement face to face events and activities.
Exploitable results
We will provide our partners and all our Collaborators with the content produced during the MEDNIGHT project, to be offered as educational and dissemination resources to all the schools, municipalities and stakeholders with which each partner has contact. In this way we facilitate their distribution and increase their reach and impact. We will also provide these resources to our collaborators in other countries for its dissemination, paying special attention to countries where we do not have partners. The exploitable results we refer to are the following:
Documentary: The "Ports of science: MEDNIGHT Expedition" documentary that will be distributed to be projected in the classrooms of the educational centers, cinemas, cultural centers, Televisions…
Exhibition: The Mediterranean Faces of Science, has already been created and has been exhibited in municipal public centres, but we are going to go a step further by offering it to schools and other international institutions.
We also have materials to produce a poster of the Mediterranean Science Team and disseminate it.
Tales from MEDNIGHT, aimed especially at primary schools, hospitals and shelters. The storybook will be made available as a resource for schools, as well as the teaching units created from its content.
Videos from MEDNIGHT TV will be also available for teachers and schools.
