Impact assessment main results (2018-2019)
-Collection, processing and analysis of feedbacks based on pre and post event surveys, face to face flash interviews, google analytics on website, sentiment analysis of social network.
Main results of the project:
• People attended the activities of the NIGHT: 20,091 (2018 edition), 21,387 (2019 edition,)
• Anonymous questionnaires (online and paper) for students and general public:1,366 (2018 ed.), 1,654 (2019 ed)
• Followers on Facebook page: 4,540 (2018 ed.), 6,127 (2019 ed.).
• Interaction on Facebook Page: (36,929 (2018 ed.), and 38,603 (2019 ed.). The Gender analysis shown that the main trend was of female post (34% men, 66% women);
• 60.000 visualizations and 2500 interaction were observed during NIGHT in the ROP 2014-2020 Calabria Facebook page (
https://www.facebook.com/PorCalabria/(se abrirá en una nueva ventana))
• Hits on Website (Google analytics): 18,263 (2018 ed.), and 20,735 (2019 ed.). We observed the interactions with several countries intra-EU (UK, DE, ES, FR, PT, IRL, PL,S), extra-EU (Argentina, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, USA, Canada, Australia, India, Iraq, Turkey, Japan, Tunisia, Ivory Coast )
Main conclusions :
• More than 80% of researchers declared that NIGHT is a fundamental event to share knowledge within the academic communities.
• More than 85% declared that it is important to define a strong relationship between research and civil society.
• More than 32% of young people would like to have a scientific career in the next future.
The videos show that all respondents are happy to participate in the NIGHT activities. The students said that " The European Researchers' NIGHT help them to identify future careers”; the pupils said " thank you Europe! "and the teachers said that "the initiative is useful for showing scientific results and reducing distances between citizens and Europe".
