Objective "The 2011 Researchers' Night coordinated by the Silesian University of Technology (Gliwice, Poland) is actually continuation of 5 previous similar events. For the past 3 years we have cooperated with other Silesian Universities acting under the name 'Silesian Researchers' Night'. This year in frames of the Silesian Universities Network we managed to build a partnership of 5 Silesian universities taking part in the 2011 event. We aim in future at building a consortium gathering all Silesian universities, which will increase the effectiveness of the communication activities organised in the area counting almost 4,9 million inhabitants.The broad and varied programme of activities will address all categories of public, regardless of age and scientific background, and combine in balanced way serious and fun activities. They will take place at the university campuses (in Gliwice, Katowice, Bielsko - Biala Rybnik and Sosnowiec) situated in the city centres. The activities will notably include: face to face meetings with researchers, experiments conducting by the researchers and the audience (supervised by researchers), workshops, live-demonstrations, lectures, concerts, shows, contest, researchers talking about their passions. In order to allow young participants to enjoy the activities they will start early in the afternoon and last late into the night. As in previous years we plan to engage the whole school groups and families in all the activities taking part in our region.Main goals of th event are: enhancing public recognition of researchers ant their work, attracting as many people as possible to the event, rebuting the stereotype of a scientist as a strange, cold person closed in the four walls of their laboratories, showing that everyone can be a scientist and encouraging young people to choose a scientific career path, stopping the outflow of young scientists from Europe to the USA, showing that European science has a lot to offer (FP7, Marie Curie Actions)." Programme(s) FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Topic(s) FP7-PEOPLE-2011-NIGHT - Marie-Curie Action: "Researchers' Night" Call for proposal FP7-PEOPLE-2011-NIGHT See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CSA-SA - Support actions Coordinator POLITECHNIKA SLASKA EU contribution € 29 985,50 Address AKADEMICKA STREET 2A 44-100 GLIWICE Poland See on map Region Makroregion południowy Śląskie Katowicki Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Jerzy Rutkowski (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (4) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIWERSYTET SLASKI W KATOWICACH Poland EU contribution € 7 384,00 Address UL. BANKOWA 12 40-007 KATOWICE See on map Region Makroregion południowy Śląskie Katowicki Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Urszula Ziegler (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIWERSYTET EKONOMICZNY W KATOWICACH Poland EU contribution € 6 806,50 Address ULICA 1 MAJA 50 40 287 Katowice See on map Region Makroregion południowy Śląskie Katowicki Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Urszula Klemczag-Maciag (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SLASKI UNIWERSYTET MEDYCZNY W KATOWICACH Poland EU contribution € 7 278,00 Address UL. PONIATOWSKIEGO 15 40 055 Katowice See on map Region Makroregion południowy Śląskie Katowicki Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Patrycja Przewoznik (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data AKADEMIA TECHNICZNO-HUMANISTYCZNA WBIELSKU-BIALEJ Poland EU contribution € 8 546,00 Address Willowa 2 43-309 Bielsko-Biala See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Hanna Lamers (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data