Work performed within WP 1 – Awareness campaign (AC):
The central theme for 2020: “Science Without Borders”.
Unique graphic design promotional material and all outputs – suitable for online campaign that was dominant in the AC; banners and posters shared with and in cooperation with municipalities, universities, regional self-governing regions, media partners, promotional gadgets such as T-shirts, pencils, face masks and buffs for scientists and competition winners.
Press release published in national and regional media the days prior to the event and promotional spots and announcements via national radios. The interviews on radio and in TV shows also took place in order to promote the event among broad public. Articles in national and regional outlets, interviews in newspapers and magazines were also published, e.g. in print media (SME, In.Ba QUARK).
Media partnership with SME newspaper – special edition of scientific Zoom podcast; advertisement in the podcast; interviews with scientists published as articles; banner campaign and program schedule published on the day of the event.
Cooperation with science popularization activities and influencers.
Invitations via direct mailing were sent to municipalities, regional governments, universities, schools, media, regional media, academic partners, partners among private companies etc…
3 competitions for different age groups took place and quick online competitions for promotial materials.
Strossle campaign, Google AdWords campaign and banner campaign and partners´ websites.
More than 3 million impressions from online campaign.
Work performed within WP 2 - Activities during the NIGHT
Formats:
Online program:
• Online studio
• Science Without Frontiers – science channels
• Visit your school-Get to know your scientist
• Teasing and Accompanying events: Science café and patisserie; Stories that Move; Tekov Observatory in Levice;
• Competitions and Scientific Quizz
Offline program:
• Scientific Courier
Detailed program of activities
• Live program: interactive presentations; live demonstrations and experiments, interviews with researchers;
• debates, discussions, chats with researchers: chance to interact, get more information on science and innovation, and to ask scientists and innovators via sli.do;
• scientific show, 3D visualizations, holograms;
• online lectures of scientist for the large group of people including short interactive talks within Science Espresso format;
• training and preparation of presentations with researchers;
• virtual EU Corner;
• virtual stands of partners;
• science kits with experiments;
• competitions and quizzes;
• laser show.
The ERN 2020 in numbers:
• More than 15 000 unique viewers of the Online studio
• More than 3 000 unique viewers of Science Without Frontiers webinars
• 44 schools participating in the Visit your school-Get to know your scientist format
• 385 schools receiving Scietific Courier boxes (outreach to more than 2 000 pupils)
• 638 competitors in the Scientific Quizzes
• Active involvement of 140 researchers, amongst whom 2 having benefitted from MSCA schemes;
Outputs for dissemination:
• Recordings of the program in the Online studio
• Recordings from 2 channels of webinars Science Without Frontiers
• Photos from the Online studio
• Making-of-video from the Online studio
• More than 2 500 boxes with experiments for kids and teachers distributed within Scientific Courier
• The ERN special published by Euractiv summarising the highlight from expert discussions
• Special 1-hour record from the program of the Online studio broadcasted on national TV (RTVS)
• Recording of presentations within Science café and Science patisserie events
Work performed within WP 3 - Impact Assessment
Collection, analysis and processing of 108 feedbacks from attendees and 14 feedbacks from researchers with common and specific questions. Main conclusions from the Impact Assessment are available in the report on the Impact Assessment (deliverable 3).
Work performed within WP 4 – Management
The management of the ERN was crucial for successful and timely delivery of the project. Overall administrative and financial management was in place in order to achieve proposed goals and stick to the project proposal. The ERN 2020 was challenging in terms of risk management and flexibility of the team to adapt to changing circumstances and health regulations.
