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EUROPEAN PERFORMING SCIENCE NIGHT

Project description

Bringing researchers closer to the public through performing arts

Co-funded under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions, European Performing Science Night (EPSN) is a Europe-wide public event that brings researchers closer to the public. Based in Badalona, Spain, the EPSN 2021 project will organise a range of innovation activities aiming to raise public awareness about researchers and the impact of research on people’s daily lives. The event will be hosted by Fundación Épica, a non-for-profit organisation established by the La Fura dels Baus theatre company. Through its methodology of combining scientific excellence and performing arts, Épica will empower civil society to perform science and be an active part of the scientific research process, targeting those not originally interested in science.

Objective

The theatre company La Fura dels Baus (established in 1979) started a creative foundation Fundacion Epica to transfer -as informal training- the lessons learnt during the many decades of organising successful and engaging performances. Epica developed and tested creative interaction methodology and their physical venue in Badalona (Spain) will host the proposed European Performing Science Night.
The European Performing Science Night (EPSN) puts forth a science- expanding methodology based on the combination of scientific excellence and performing arts as generators of faked realities and engagement. Through co-designed preparatory work leading to a Night of Performing Science, the event will bring researchers closer to the general public (and vice versa). It will increase awareness of what is research, its function in a democratic society, and its benefits for a diverse Europe.
EPSN proposes a wide range of innovation activities, with a view to supporting the public recognition of researchers, their work, and the value it brings to society. EPSN will in itself be a scientific event, where research groups will deploy experiments with a broad spectrum of civil society and science both online and face to face. Audiences will perform, in artistic terms, as subjects themselves in experiments, taking part in both the tests during the event and expected results in the performaforum.
EPSN will test and demonstrate new methodological approaches to bring researchers closer to the public through an innovative language based on the performing arts and new language tools for researchers, that is, 1 training to equip researchers with new tools to deal with scientific communication; 2 the realization of artistic co-creation based on the work of researchers to show the diversity of science and its impact on the daily lives of citizens, and 3 a round table -performaforum- after the performance experience to promote open science and help stimulate interest in research careers.

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CSA - Coordination and support action

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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2020bis

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Coordinator

FUNDACION EPICA LA FURA DELS BAUS
Net EU contribution

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€ 71 437,50
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CALLE PUJADES, NUM 77, PLANTA 2, PUERTA 6
08005 Barcelona
Spain

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Este Cataluña Barcelona
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Other
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Total cost

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€ 142 875,00

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