Work Package 1 - Awareness campaign
Overview of the results
o Conception, realisation of promotional material: posters in various formats, leaflets, programmes (various sizes), banners, give away (balloons);
o Advertising in public places (cafes, stores, malls, libraries) and public transport through posters or electronic displays;
o Articles, announcements and advertisements published in newspapers and magazines (e.g. Kathimerini newspaper);
o Press releases sent multiple times sent to all media, networks and collaborators;
o Production of radio spot and video spot for all cities of both consortia; The spots were sent in central TV Stations (e.g. ERT), as well as in 15 radio stations;
o Announcement sent in all schools;
o Invitation and Announcement was sent to all secondary and high schools of Athens through the respective Secondary Education Directorates; Overall, 1.500 schools in all participating cities were invited through e-invitations;
o Invitation to the educators’ broader community through engaging the Central Directorate for School Counsellors;
o Visits to schools; speeches to students about various research topics and the RN events;
o Sending of electronic invitations;
o o Revamping, constant updating and maintenance of project website: www.researchersnight.gr (detailed info, objectives, programme, FAQs, etc.); In a period of 45 days (1 Sep 18 – 15 Oct 18), 14.285 users visited the website (11.718 during the same period in 2018) with 67.880 views (53.674 in 2018) and an average session duration of 00:02:01 (00:02:11 in 2018);
o National social media accounts were maintained and updated centrally while each partner maintained its local social media accounts to promote their activities and maximize impact;
o About 2.000.000 people made aware of the Researchers' Night and its objectives.
Work Package 2 - Activities during the Night
Locations
Athens, Thessaloniki, Patras, Heraklion, Larissa and Rethymno.
Venues
o Athens: National Technical University of Athens, Patission Historic Complex, Averof Building;
o Thessaloniki: Thessaloniki Concert Hall (TCH);
o Patras: pedestrian of Riga Ferraiou street, Patras’ busiest pedestrian street in the city centre, building of the Chamber of Achaia (located on the pedestrian of Riga Ferraiou);
o Heraklion: premises of FORTH;
o Larissa: Tachydromeon Square;
o Rethymno: Institute of Plasma Physics & Lasers, Hellenic Mediterranean University;
Overview of the results
Offer of the activities globally as planned and described in the Grant Agreement Annex I Part B, namely:
o Dozens of hands-on experiments;
o Cutting edge exhibitions;
o Interactive Games and guided lab tours;
o Speeches of prominent researchers;
Approximately 850 researchers from all career stages actively involved in the activities, of whom:
o 35 having benefitted from a Marie Curie scheme;
o 97 having benefitted from other EU support, under FP7 and/or HORIZON 2020;
Over 23.000 visitors having taken part in the various activities offered, distributed as follows:
• Thessaloniki: 4.700;
• Athens: 13.000;
• Patras: 1.350;
• Heraklion: 2.750;
• Larissa: 1.000;
• Rethymno: 500
One European corner per event was placed in a frequented area of the venue. Gadgets, treasure hunts and catchy videos were used in order to attract participants. Also each European corner featured an EU roll-up banner whose design was sent by the Commission and was printed by each partner.
The project created two videos showing activities during the Night:
• A 4-minute video that includes some of the highlights from all the events. (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qSGpt7exQM&t(si apre in una nuova finestra))
• A 4-minute video exclusively for the activities carried out in Thessaloniki (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMCP0yNqkQI&t(si apre in una nuova finestra))
Work Package 3 - Impact Assessment
Tasks undertaken
An electronic survey was conducted asking from the participants of all events to evaluate the Night. The results of the survey were combined with data from the website, the SHERIF social media accounts and the "People counters" installed in the venues to conclude whether the Night (awareness campaign + pre-events + events) were successful.
