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SuperScienceMe - REsearch is your RE-Generation

Project description

Restoring faith in science

Research can help regenerate the planet and save lives. In this context, the EU-funded SUPERSCIENCEME project will embrace the European Green Deal to turn climate and environmental challenges into opportunities. Specifically, the project will bring together researchers from the universities of Calabria and Basilicata in Italy who will open their laboratories to the public. The overall aim is for the researchers to present to the general public the extraordinary normality of their superhero lives. In addition, by bringing researchers closer to the youngsters, it is possible to spark scientific career aspirations among them. The project plans to leverage the power of research and the enthusiasm of researchers to enter the hearts and minds of people.

Objective

"""We are running out of time..."" SuperScienceMe thought. ""The earth cries out for help...we can't just stand there, we must do something and we must do it now...all together..""
SuperScienceMe – REsearch is your RE-Generation fully embraces the European Green Deal, to reverse the course and to turn climate and environmental challenges into opportunities.
In this historical moment, in which all certainties are falling apart dramatically, SuperScienceMe appeals to all generations and, like a modern Noah, units them around an ideal, calls them to build a symbolic ark, in order to convey the message that “Research can help regenerate the planet and save lives”
Due to the recent events, the pandemic, the dramatic climate changes, the severe threats to democracy, our world is telling us something. In these difficult times, it is easy for people to feel disoriented and lose faith in science; the deniers, the conspiracy theorists, the insurrectionists, all of them are the result of this slow but continuous and inexorable drift.
Once again, SuperScienceMe leverages the power of research and the enthusiasm of researchers, to enter the hearts and heads of people to slow down this wave until it reverses its path, before it's too late.
To achieve this goal, building on the success of the past editions of the project, researchers from universities and institutions of two regions of southern Italy, Calabria and Basilicata, will open the doors of their laboratories; they will bring research to the non-specialized audience and will talk to people of any age, in order to show them the extraordinary normality of their superhero lives. Furthermore, in line with MSCA-NIGHT scope, the project, bringing researchers closer to the general public, will encourage the youth to embark on scientific careers also helping the planet.
SuperScienceMe must open people's eyes and minds, to make them believe in science again, to defeat the darkness and restore the earth to its original color..the Green"

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Funding Scheme

CSA - Coordination and support action

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Call for proposal

(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2020bis

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Coordinator

UNIVERSITA DELLA CALABRIA
Net EU contribution
€ 118 450,00
Address
VIA PIETRO BUCCI 7/11/B
87036 ARCAVACATA DI RENDE
Italy
Region
Centro (IT) Lazio Roma
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Total cost
€ 178 954,50

Participants (6)