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News 11 June 2012
In the interest of giving science centres and museums an adequate voice in Europe’s innovation and research plans, Ecsite has submitted amendments to the European Parliament in the establishment of Horizon 2020 – The Framework Programme for Research and Innovation.
Members of Ecsite are encouraged to raise the profile of these amendments among their national Members of European Parliament (MEPs).
News 7 June 2012
“This Ecsite Quarterly theme shows how far Europe’s museums and science centres have come in finding ways to ignite the passion and interest of adult audiences.
News 27 May 2012
Approved by the Ecsite board in March 2012, this statement highlights our network’s concern for protecting biodiversity and maps out a proactive response. Read it here: www.ecsite.eu/activities_and_resources/resources/ecsite-position-biodiversity
News 22 May 2012
“Biodiversity is not only an environmental issue. Biodiversity is a security issue, a foreign policy issue, an economic issue…” says Johan Rockström, Executive Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre.
News 15 May 2012
KiiCS is a three-year European Commission-funded project (2012-2014) coordinated by Ecsite, the European network of science centres and museums. It aims build bridges between arts, science and technology by giving evidence of the positive impacts of their interaction for creativity as well as for triggering interest in science.
News 11 May 2012
Here on the second day of the PLACES Training Workshop on social media for science communication, we’re playing a social media game. Podnosh (www.podnosh.com) created this fantastic conversation game to get us thinking about what our social media priorities are.
News 10 May 2012
KiiCS is a three-year European Commission the European network of science centres and museums. It aims science and technology by giving evidence of the positive impacts of their interaction for creativity as well as for triggering interest in science.
News 7 May 2012
PLACES is a four-year European project, started in June 2010, coordinated by Ecsite, the European network of science centres and museums (www.ecsite.eu)
News 4 May 2012
The committee of PLACES researchers coordinated by PLACES partner Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, developed the PLACES Impact Assessment Toolkit to measure science communication initiatives and policies.
News 19 April 2012
When discussing emotive topics such as energy research, important issues arise around honesty and trust. In this project we will trial two different approaches to these challenges.
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