Pre-events in 2022 and 2023 included:
• Visit of ScienceVans to rural schools (short lecture and workshop)
• “Something glowing in the dark” – A series of interactive lectures on the latest scientific topics were held in high schools during September
• The HealthyLungs4Life event (International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies, September 7th) was celebrated through interactive lectures in high schools.
• Promo weekend, part I - fun educational workshop with direct interaction of researchers with passers-by, organized in cinema complex MTS Dvorana in Belgrade two weeks prior to the event)
• International Microorganism Day (17th September) was celebrated through interactive activities and workshops at IMGGI.
• Promo weekend, part II - fun educational hands-on activities with direct interaction of researchers with passers-by, was organized on the weekend prior to the event in Usce Shopping Center in Belgrade (only in 2022).
• Life of Brain and Walking with Science - the pedestrian zone of Belgrade city center involving direct interaction of researchers with passers-by during the week of the NIGHT itself.
A new promoactivity was introduced in 2022 – Escape Room (involving information on different areas of chemistry, e.g. radioactivity). The targeted audience was high-school pupils who all gave positive feedback.
Close to 2.000.000 persons (over 900.000 in 2022 as well as in 2023) were made aware of the Researchers' Night and its objectives.
All planned activities during the Night itself were successfully organized on-site.
• Ca. 700 researchers (400 in 2022 and 350 in 2023) have taken part in the realization of the activities with local scientists being involved wherever it was possible.
• Different types of activities were organized during the event including panel, demo and hands-on experiments, science show, workshops, talks, quizzes, card game, competitions, theatre play, concert. and multimedia show.
• The most successful activities were the Treasure hunt, Open Lab, SCI-Circus and Exploding discoveries.
• For instance, ca. 1250 participants (mostly children) were involved in the Treasure hunt;
• there was a significant response and participation of primary and secondary pupils in the Event in cities where the Researchers' Night was organized onsite for the first time, namely Priboj, Prijepolje and Nova Varos;
There were ca. 125.000 attendees in total: 55000 in 2022 and 70000 in 2023.
• Theater play (2022), multimedia show (2022), Exploding Discoveries (2023) and music concert (2023) are new types of activities organized for the first time with great response from the visitors.
• The number of EU-funded projects that were present at the event was higher than anticipated.
