CREATIVITY

European Researcher's Night in France

CoordinatorCOMUNAUTE D'UNIVERSITES ET ETABLISSEMENTS UNIVERSITE DE LYON ; FONDATION PARTENARIALE DE LUNIVERSITE DE LIMOGES ; UNIVERSITE FEDERALE DE TOULOUSE MIDI-PYRENEES ; ASSOCIATION CAP SCIENCES-CENTRE DE CULTURE SCIENTIFIQUE TECHNIQUE ET INDUSTRIELLE BORDEAUX-AQUITAINE ; COMMUNAUTE D'UNIVERSITE ET D'ETABLISSEMENTS UNIVERSITE FEDERALE DE TOULOUSE MIDI-PYRENEES ; ASSOCIATION TRACES THEORIES ET REFLEXIONS SUR L APPRENDRE LA COMMUNICATION ET L EDUCATION SCIENTIFIQUES ; UNIVERSITE DIJON BOURGOGNE ; Brest'aim ; Centre de Culture Scientifique et Technique d'Angers Terre des Sciences Association ; UNIVERSITE DU MANS ; Aix-Marseille University ; University of Franche-Comté
Grant period2016-05-01 - 2017-11-30
Funding bodyEuropean Union
Call numberH2020-MSCA-NIGHT-2016
Grant number722266
IdentifierG:(EU-Grant)722266

Note: We are proposing ERNs for 2016 and 2017 in 12 French cities. Our consortium of 11 partners will organise afternoons for schoolchildren, events in the cities and, above all, evenings where 1000 researchers will meet up to 30,000 people a year. The general public will be able to meet a number of researchers directly and experience something memorable with them. Since 2006, we have acquired a solid knowhow in the “art of interaction”. In 2014-2015, we went one step further by including the public in the actual research experiments, thereby creating scientist-citizen cooperation. We will renew these experiences and go even further: we are encouraging the public and researchers to experience creative moments together! Several creative interactions will be set up, around the “Ideas” theme in 2016 and the “Impossible?” theme in 2017, to allow researchers and the public to interact. The evenings will be full of ideas, challenges, and encounters with diverse individuals. In this way, we will rally European researchers to get involved in each city. Specific strategies will be used (such as public radio recordings) to allow them to share their European experience. These moments of cooperation will without a doubt reinforce the mutual appreciation between researchers and citizens. Our communication strategy (attracting specific audiences through networking, web, partnerships with youth-oriented press, etc.) will be based on the slogan: “General Creativity”. This slogan denotes the interactive nature of the evening and gives us a chance to talk about the richness of European research. To this effect, and for the first time, Cédric Villani, an inspiring and renowned researcher, has accepted to be the ERN’s patron. Lastly, we plan to renew the “Great Participatory Experiment” in 2017. In each city (and perhaps even Italy), the public will contribute to the same playful scientific experiment chosen in 2016 after a challenge involving all our research institutions.
     

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