The European Researchers’ Night BiH 2020 was organized by Tidea Ltd as main coordinator and event organizer with key supporting partners HEIS and BALKANFILM and external supporters, such as EU Info Centre in BiH, association Mali Princ and Poliglota Insitute in Brčko, Faculty for Production and Management in Trebinje, majority of museums and universities in the country. Due to coronavirus pandemic, all events were held online and included researchers from 14 cities in BiH as well as several international and diaspora scientists. RiNG20 live content was viewed by 34,335 attendees who enjoyed offering of 47 edutainment activities throughout the extended programme of this event.
- Number of activities organized: 47, out of which 21 during the main online event, 10 online science talks / panels, 5 competitions (high school science project, artwork competition, best video at Science Fair, 3MT competition for PhD students, and online Treasure Hunt), 5 RiNG content streams (RiNGeraja episodes, #BrainDate video interviews, science fair videos, European Robotics Week activities, on-demand RiNG videos on Youtube), 5 quizzes and workshops, and EU corner.
- Venues/locations for RiNG activities: online live stream (Facebook), on-demand videos (Youtube), in-person sites for limited number of participants (e.g. workshops with children, video recordings of laboratories and museum premises).
- Number of cities involved in BiH: 14, attending researchers were from: Banja Luka, Brčko, Goražde, Gračanica, Istočno Sarajevo, Jajce, Konjic, Mostar, Sarajevo, Šipovo, Travnik, Trebinje, Tuzla, Zvornik
- Direct attendance at live online events: 34,335. Additionally, on-demand content on Youtube gathered 68,458 views while High School and Artwork Competitions gathered 127.182 and 26.093 public votes respectively.
- Most successful activities were ones which targeted children and high school students, e.g. artwork competition, high school competition, children workshops.
- EU corner activities have gathered 9,700 views and reached 973,000 people audience on social networks of RiNG and EU Info Centre.
- 404 people involved with RiNG20 implementation, out of which 218 researchers: 148 in main RiNG activities, out of which 6 were MSCA Fellows, and 70 through 3MT competition for PhD students.
- Number of people to be reached through awareness raising campaign in BiH: 1,500,00.
Due to coronavirus pandemic, all RiNG activities had to be moved online. However, first online edition of RING has been very successful and overachieved set goals. Overall, the awareness raising campaign reached at least 1,500,000 people all over Bosnia and Herzegovina (planned: 1,000,000) and brought over 34,335 viewers to the event (planned: 26,000).
