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Annual Conference sessions

The first Ecsite Conference took place in 1989. Here you can browse all Conference sessions since 2010. Use the search engine to look for people, topics...

Looking for an older session? Our digital records start in 2007, with programme pdfs attached to each conference page

Science ♥ society
Tristram Stuart

Tristram Stuart is an author and campaigner tackling the food waste scandal. Watch a video of his keynote.

Stuart's organisation is called ...

Explainers & visitor services
John DowneyPatrizia FamàAnn-Marie PendrillPaul HixElin Roberts

The dinner table is an excellent venue for communication, but science is seldom the topic of choice. Yet a full table offers many objects and utensils, not to mention food, which can be used to present a variety of scientific topics. In this...

Explainers & visitor services
Malvina ArtheauDidier LavalGène Bertrand

Science centres are wonderful places to ignite curiosity and raise awareness about science or technology topics. But how good are they when it comes to stimulating visitors to start their own projects, to build with others or to co-create with a...

Explainers & visitor services
Alex JohnsonElisa Maria CasatiHeidrun SchulzeTalila Yehiel

In informal science learning we often have to face the “no-show” of teenagers. It is difficult to get in touch with them, and they often seem to shy away from the term “science”. Once they do visit places of informal science learning, they often...

Exhibit development
Anna SchaefersLenka MynarovaCornelia ReichertInes PRIETOGérard Cobut

The consensus: texts and exhibits in an exhibition have to be scientifically correct. The question: how do we come by this correctness and what does “correct” actually mean? Science Centres and museums often employ teams of experts to ensure the...

Research, theory & evaluation
Carole PalecoAnna OmedesHenrik Sell

Citizen Science can result from various recipes, and notably from a participative or a collaborative process. Some institutions collaborate with amateurs for their research and together produce data that nourish science. Some are good at...

Exhibit development
Paula BäckmanAntonia CaolaYuko OkayamaJohn DowneyPäivi GarnerDorothée Vatinel

In a science centre environment, language is of great importance. How much language support should we provide to our visitors? Should we expect our staff to be bilingual? The choice of languages can be a tricky question, as well as their order...

Tuomas OlkkuHeidi RosenströmClaudia VelhasIan Brunswick

As an industry, we are able to share and copy good practices more freely than many other fields of business. Sometimes the best way to learn is to move into a new culture and work side by side with peers there. A new face in the organization can...

Andrea Illy

Andrea Illy is the Chairman and CEO of illycaffè S.p.A., a family coffee business founded more than 80 years ago. Watch his speech on Ecsite's YouTube channel.
In 2012...

Colin JohnsonLukas RichterIya PetkovaElton MicallefAli ÇetinkayaVictor Manuel Simões Gil

Are you planning to set up a new science centre? If so, this is the session for you. You will meet people who are now in the throes of opening a new centre. Come and learn from their challenges and successes. Ask about exhibit procurement,...

Michael CreekJan RiiseErnesto Paramo SuredaAntonio Gomes da CostaLeonardo AlfonsiLuigi Amodio

Science communication at the urban level has been in the spotlight in the very last years and thanks to European projects, building partnerships at the local level is becoming more widespread. At the same time experiences developed in some...

Explainers & visitor services
Ian SimmonsJohn DowneyElin Roberts

Humour eases all sorts of communication – where does it work when communicating science? Panellists will share their thoughts on successful uses of humour in science communication and on not so successful ones and invite thoughts from the...

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