Project description
Interactive activities showcase research in Italy
Interactive stands, hands-on experiments and live demonstrations as well as video projections, games and guided visits to scientific museums; these are some of the activities that will be organised by the EU-funded MEET project as part of the European Researchers' Night 2020 activities scheduled to be held in Italy. The objective is to showcase research and provide researchers an opportunity to present themselves and their work in an entertaining way. All MEET activities aim at promoting research and its outcomes as well as researchers and their profession, with special attention being given to the youngest generations on the one hand and to the recognition of the role of Europe on the other.
Objective
MEETmeTONIGHT (MEET) – “Face to face with the research” is the proposal for the European Researchers’ Night in 2020, happening in the major Italian cities of Milan, Naples, Caserta and Padua, complemented by Brescia, Castellanza, Cremona, Edolo, Lecco, Lodi, Mantova, Monza, Sondrio (Lombardy region), Avellino, Portici, Procida (Campania region), Cassino, Frosinone, Gaeta, Ventotene (Lazio region) and Asiago (Veneto region). The goal is to realize a special occasion of meeting and interaction between the public at large and the world of research, where researchers – at the forefront of all the proposed activities – can show themselves and what they do, in a simple, spontaneous, informal and entertaining way, actively involving the public. People, by doing, find themselves learning, getting amused, and becoming aware of how much research is for everyone and all around us. All MEET activities aim at promoting research and its outcomes, researchers and their profession, with a special attention to the youngest generations on one side, and to the recognition of the role of Europe on the other. With one common macro-theme, detailed in five thematic areas and five slogans, MEET proposes interactive stands, hands-on experiments and live demos that reconstruct the research environment; conferences, video projections, interactive games; guided visits to scientific museums; meeting occasions with researchers; European Corners; live broadcast moments. A special attention is given to schools’ pupils, for which a number of dedicated activities are foreseen, at the goal of encouraging them to consider research career as a concrete option for their life, and to sustainability, one of the most important topics to be considered to achieve a better future.
Programme(s)
Funding Scheme
CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinator
20126 MILANO
Italy