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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

Equity & Inclusion
Henna BhattiKirsi PulkkinenJacob Thorek JensenDafni Konstantinidi Sofrona

We at the Science Museum Group, Finnish Science Centre Association, and Danish Museum of Science and Technology will share what adopting a science capital-based approach means to us and how we work with science capital in our individual local...

Mikko Myllykoski

ACPC Chair Mikko Myllykoski takes us on a journey to Heilbronn to meet the Hosts of the 2022 Ecsite Conference; experimenta, and to find out more about what we can...

Equity & Inclusion
Daria DvorzhitskaiaSara VerstraetenTania JohnstonDobrivoje Lale EricDaria Dvorzhitskaia

​​Commitment: Equity & inclusion

Achieving gender equality in STEM education could add up to 1.2 million jobs and €610-820 billion to Europe’s GDP by 2050. So why will it take us 100 years to achieve complete gender...

Research, theory & evaluation
Mairéad HurleyEwine van Dishoeck

Ewine van Dishoeck will answer all questions from her keynote speech in an engaging conversation with a dedicated session moderator.

This is a collection of short tours, collections and stories from four different science centres and museums. You can watch the Geldingadalur volcano erupting, sneak into the reserves of Toulouse Natural History Museum, discover the immortal...

Science ♥ society
Dacha AtienzaWim WoutersTanja FranotovicCarole Paleco

Commitment: Climate & biodiversity crisis

How do you make people fall in love with nature in a digital environment? How do you make them experience the loss of nature here and now? And how do you empower them to...

Herbert MuenderBruno Maquart

Welcome to the 2021 Ecsite Online Conference! You’ll be warmly welcomed by Conference Hosts Brad Irwin (Head of Global Engagement at the Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom) and Dorothée Vatinel (Curator, Cité des sciences et de l'...

Science ♥ society
Carmen FenollosaMatteo MerzagoraGène BertrandFrank KupperMarion REAL

Science centres, citizen science activities, hybrid cultural spaces, design thinking and discussion games are all using co-creation practices. In recent years, the interest of the science engagement community in the world of participation and co-...

Research, theory & evaluation
Mikko MyllykoskiKati TyystjärviMarjolein van BreemenJaani Lahtinen

Finding new audiences and fostering science capital is a main issue in strategies of many museums and science centres. In both Finland and the Netherlands, the Museum Card is in use, attracting new visitors and providing data about them. In the...

Collections
Patricia VerheydenPaul VoogtNata'alui Duha

​​Commitment: Equity & inclusion

Plaster masks modelled on the faces of people from Nias, an island on the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, are at the heart of a research project for which the Utrecht University Museum has...

What is an Ecsite Conference without a dance floor full of colleagues celebrating? On the last evening of the conference, we will have a dance party!!! Transform your place and your outfit to be full of colour. You can choose one or more colours...

Strategy & vision
Elin RobertsMarion SabourdyAnna GunnarssonThierry Brassac

Once upon a time...

Embark on a trip through enchanted landscapes. During this journey, meet three speakers, hiding in the storyline of an interactive fairytale. They all share a passion: stories! Assuming that the human brain was shaped...

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