Project description
Science meets creativity at fun events
Scientific literacy and engagement are crucial for fostering innovation and informed decision-making. Nevertheless, many people perceive science and technology as inaccessible or irrelevant to their daily lives. This gap hinders societal progress and reduces interest in STEAM careers. Creativity and critical thinking, essential for solving global challenges, are also often undervalued. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the Science in the City (SitC) project bridges science, research, technology, and the arts, attracting people from Malta and across Europe. The festival engages visitors with activities, performances, workshops, experiments, installations, exhibitions, talks, comedy, and sports. Showcasing the SitC team, researchers, artists, and community members, it offers fun events to help deepen the public’s understanding and enjoyment of research.
Objective
This innovative and highly interactive festival seeks to create bridges between science, research, technology and the arts. It aims to attract Maltese and Europeans, from all walks of life. Engaging visitors with activities, performances, workshops, experiments, installations, exhibitions, talks, comedy, sports and so on. The Science in the City Malat Festival shines a spotlight on researchers, who work with the SitC team, artists and members of the community to create fun events for our audiences to better understand and enjoy the research.
Besides showing adults, youths and children that STEAM is fun, exciting and offers great career opportunities for all interests, the festival emphasises how vital creatvity is to nurturing critical thinking skills. We aim to highlight the importance of looking to science and research to improve the world we live in by encouraging changemakers to look to knowledge and info about hte latest scientific developments to support their drive for change.
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
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Funding Scheme
HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support ActionsCoordinator
2080 L-Imsida
Malta