WP1. AWARENESS CAMPAIGN
On-line tools
WEBSITE
SOCIAL MEDIA
SPOTS AND TESTIMONIALS
VIDEOS Researchers’ stories
Off-line tools
PRESS OFFICE
Promotional materials
Pre-events In presence pre-events
7 scientific talks “Notti di Scienza” – Arena Parco Talenti
3 Scientific aperitifs
10 urban and naturalistic scientific trekking
2 astronomic observations
“TALENTI PER LA SCIENZA” – 25-26 September 2020 – Arena Parco Talenti: 11 laboratories, 2 conferences, 2 show-conference, 2 demonstrations
Collaboration of NET project with “ISOLA DI EINSTEIN” in Polvese Island
ON-LINE PRE-EVENTS
Collaboration of NET project with CHANGE Achitecture City Life
Università della Tuscia held a science festival which included a series of dissemination activities (including scientific treks mentioned). Among the events, 6 online conferences on environmental sustainability issues.
TRAINING ACTIVITIES FOR NET RESEARCHERS: NET project has dedicated significant space to the internal training of its researchers. The training course for NET researchers conducted by the science journalist Giovanni Carrada
OVERVIEW OF THE RESULTS: NET's communication campaign, taking into account the first edition experience and the particular year in which it took place, achieved good results with an overall number of about 5.400.000 people reached by NET information channels, including the most important institutional stakeholders channels. 41 in presence pre-events and 19 digital pre-events saw the participation of more than 33.000 people, including many cities throughout the country, remaining central to the city of Rome
WP 2 ACTIVITIES DURING THE NIGHT
ON-LINE PRODUCTS
5 HANDS ON ACTIVITIES AND GAMES
2 CITIZEN SCIENCE ACTIVITIES
37 LESSONS anda experience
14 MEETINGS WITH RESEARCHERS
15 NET TALK VIDEOS
13 VIRTUAL TOURS
5 INTERACTIVE GAMES
4 DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILMS
3 VIRTUAL TOURS AND EXHIBITIONS
32 LIVE MEETINGS WITH RESEARCHERS
22 EXPERIMENTS AND EXPERIENCE ON DEMAND
European Corner: The European corner was organised as a dedicated page of the NET website. Located on our web site testimonials/activities conducted by researchers funded by the EU, in particular Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions with their success stories being on site collaborating with NET partners
WP3 IMPACT ASSESSMENT
ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY AND EVALUATION TOOLS: The impact of the activities carried on by the consortium partners within the NET project was assessed by a multi-method approach, involving the use of traditional and innovative methods of data acquisition and analysis. Data from different sources were collected in order to have an evaluation of the activities both from qualitative and quantitative point of views. Below, the list of the raw data considered: number of attendees for each event, number of researchers involved in each event, number of researchers having taken/taking part in FP7/Horizon 2020 involved in each event, number of hits on the project website and on the related pages on the partners’ websites, number of friends and followers on the social network pages dedicated to project events, (facebook, youtube etc), evaluation of media coverage
SENTIMENT ANALYSIS: As a further method for analysing the impact of the project, the sentiment analysis was proposed in the project proposal. In particular, we proposed to analyse Twitter post, if the data access possibilities would have enabled it. Actually, the project account on Twitter is the account #scienzainsieme, which had been successfully used in 2019 as part of the activities and events carried out by Scienzainsieme project. It was blocked by Twitter since end of august 2020 due to a technical error. From that moment we have maintained constant contact with Twitter trying to reactivate the account, but this inexplicably only happened in December 2020. Despite this, we performed the analysis. A sentiment analysis associated with the events of the Researchers' Night was conducted in December 2020. Through the Tweet Catcher software, all Tweets that contained a set of keywords and/or posted by a particular user were downloaded
OVERVIEW OF THE RESULTS: During the NET project 86769 attendees participated to the events according to the information available, distributed against pre-events (which being held in the summer months could be in presence) and NIGHT events (which being held in autumn, during the second pandemic outbreak, had to be mainly online). Details about the number of attendees for the various types of activities are reported in Table 1 and Table 2 for pre-events and events of the NIGHT, respectively. 345 researchers were involved in the activities (see Table 3 for details)
These numbers are really encouraging and beyond the expectance that had to be rescaled because of the pandemic emergency
WP 4 MANAGEMENT:
USE OF RESOURCES: Some of the partners had to reallocate parts of their budget, since due to the Italian covid-19 regulations, the in-presence planned activities for the months of October and November could not be carried out, while considerable extra effort had to be devoted to the planning and realization of previously unforeseen online activities. Most of the partners consequently reallocated part of the saved money to their “direct personnel costs” (especially resources planned for travel), to cover extra person/months effort
