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Science is the Captain

Project description

Promoting research and science in Georgia

Promoting research and science in Europe and increasing awareness among the general public of the societal benefits delivered by scientific work is a priority for the EU. The EU-funded CAPTAIN project aims to increase public interest in science and highlight its impacts on everyday life among the people of Georgia and reveal invisible links between science and other areas such as culture, sport and literature. The project will organise large-scale simultaneous events in six Georgian cities to explain researchers’ work, create a more favourable attitude towards research and innovation, reduce stereotypes about researchers’ work and showcase the role of research in improving daily life and boosting the economy. It will also encourage more young people to pursue careers in research.

Objective

SCIENCE IS THE CAPTAIN project has the ambition to bring truly European style of celebrating science in the Eastern frontier of the European continent, by holding large-scale simultaneous events in 6 cities of Georgia, designed to
- increase awareness among the general public of the importance of research by attracting people from different regions of Georgia, regardless of the level of their scientific background, as to contributing to creation of more favourable attitude towards Research and Innovation public funding and improve their understanding about the invisible role of research in bettering their daily lives and economic development of the country at individual, family and society level.
- reduce the stereotypes about researchers and their profession by creating the open free platform for face-to-face interaction with researchers and engaging with pupils and students across the country in different entertaining and cognitive activities, fostering to bust the deeply held unfavourable perceptions about science career;
- encourage young people taking up research careers by illustrating them the potential of science to accomplish a positive and sustainable change to the benefits of the country and the world;
- Raise awareness and visibility of the work done by the European Union among the general public by disseminating the information and delivering key massages about EU policies, MSCA, Horizon 2020 and highlighting the EU’s role in education, culture and research within Europe and beyond.
This will be achieved by carrying out a panoply of science communication and engagement pre-event and European Researchers’ NIGHT activities, spanning from classrooms to Open Labs and Museums, from Wine to Science, from Football Stadium to Shopping mall, from meeting with real Scientists to copycatting the image of Marie Sklodowska-Curie, from Medieval Castle to Astrophysical Observatory in order to show the unlimited potential and omnipresence of science.

Coordinator

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND SCIENCE OF GEORGIA
Net EU contribution
€ 136 250,00
Address
DIMITRI UZNADZE N 52
0102 Tbilisi
Georgia

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Activity type
Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
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Total cost
€ 136 250,00

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