June 2016

#20

New Astronauts

The era of the next door astronaut by C. Fenollosa
LOOKOUT

#Ecsite2016 yield by J. Becker
COLUMN
Truly socio-culturally inclusive, ‘colourful’ and gender-balanced by Dr. E. Rasekoala

From the Ecsite Office

Ecsite Conference

From Ecsite European Collaborations

Good reads and resources

Opportunities

From Ecsite members

Spokes is edited by Ecsite, the European network of science centres and museums. Sign up to receive the magazine each month.

The era of the next door astronaut

In depth

How social media and popular culture are transforming space communication

The era of the next door astronaut

Carmen Fenollosa

#Ecsite2016 yield

Lookout

Off the beaten conference track

#Ecsite2016 yield

Agnes Bauer

Sergey Kishchenko

Pippa Hough

Andy Lloyd

Aniello Mennella

Julie Becker

Truly socio-culturally inclusive, ‘colourful’ and gender-balanced

Column

A challenge to the science engagement community from the 2016 Ecsite Annual Conference keynote speaker

Truly socio-culturally inclusive, ‘colourful’ and gender-balanced

Dr. Elizabeth Rasekoala

From the Ecsite office

Ecsite membership changes

Approved last week at the Annual General Meeting in Graz, Austria. They will make our network stronger and were approved with a large majority of more than 85%.

Tekniska Museet wins Mariano Gago Ecsite Award

For the co-created “Make Music with Your Whole Body” exhibit. International Centre for Life is Highly Commended for its long-standing collaboration with Northumbria University.

“Make Music with Your Whole Body” at Teskinska Museet (Sweeden), winning project of the 2016 Ecsite Strategic Partnership Award

The new EXTRA is now live

The marketplace for scientific touring exhibitions was relaunched last week - take a look and upload your exhibitions!

We have a new Ecsite Board

Two new Trustees were elected a new Vice-President nominated at the Ecsite AGM last week.

Welcome to new Ecsite members

The Ecsite Board approved 12 new members or changes of categories. Welcome on board!

Free visits around Europe

With the new Ecsite Move platform, Full members of Ecsite can easily book free visits at each other's venue. Meet your peers!

A glimpse of the Ecsite Move home page

Two new Editorial Committee members for Spokes

Raphael Chanay from the Natural History Museum London and Aliki Giannakopoulou from Ellinogermaniki Agogi SA will be active from the next issue onwards.

Raphael Chanay and Aliki Giannakopoulou, new Spokes Editorial Committee members

Share your stories in Spokes

Upcoming Spokes articles still looking for case studies on late-life engagement, shops and restaurants, storytelling and more. Get in touch!

Ecsite Conference

#Ecsite2016 participants, give us feedback

Take three minutes for our little survey and help improve future conferences

Dr Rasekoala's keynote on video

Rasekoala is challenging our field to create “truly inclusive, ‘colourful’ and gender-balanced science centres and museums”.

Watch Dr Rasekoala's #Ecsite2016 keynote on the Ecsite YouTube channel

Relive #Ecsite2016

You'll find links to daily Storifies, pictures, presentations and videos on the conference page

#Ecsite2016 team at the closing ceremony

See you in Porto for #Ecsite2017

Save the date: 15-17 June 2017. The call for session proposals will be opening on 16 August.

#Ecsite2017, 15-17 June, Porto, Portugal

The call for session proposals will be opening on 16 August and closing on 16 October.

From Ecsite European collaborations

Behind the scenes of 'Beyond the Lab'

An interview with the Sparks exhibition curator and designer. The exhibition explores the stories of remarkable people opening up scientific research to everyone.

Beyond the Lab: The DIY Science Revolution’

Exhibition rendering by the Spence Museum, London

Tested for you: history of women in science card game

The game is part of the Hypatia toolkit, a digital collection of activities focused on gender-inclusive ways of communicating STEM.

Public engagement with synthetic biology event around the corner

Join the two-day SYNENERGENE forum on 24-25 June 2016 in Amsterdam

RRI echoes from #Ecsite2016

Questions explored thanks to the RRI Toolkit project included: What kind of partnerships do we need to implement the mindset of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in non-formal education?

RRI Tools Pre-conference Workshop Ecsite AC 2016

Good reads and resources

Selected science engagement reads

This month's selection of science engagement papers, features, reports and news. Includes a report on "Creating Living Knowledge", articles on Science & Brexit and more.

Museums, migration and cultural diversity

NEMO's recommendations to raise museums' awareness of their potential in the context of a diverse and changing society

"Museums, migration and cultural diversity" publication by NEMO, the Network of European Museum Organisations

EU report on open innovation

Must read publication produced by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Research & Innovation

Open innovation, open science, open to the world - a vision for Europe

Opportunities

Selection of international conferences and courses

Upcoming international conferences, calls for papers and courses in science engagement

Share a story for International Science Center and Science Museum Day

Contribute to an international success on 10 November

More at http://www.iscsmd.org

Art & space science: open call for residency

The European Space Agency, the European Digital Art&Science Network and Ars Electronica are looking for artists inspired by the scientific work and missions of ESA

Photo: ESA-G. Porter, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Urban Innovative Actions launches second call for proposals

Three topics: Sustainable urban mobility, the circular economy and the integration of migrants and refugees

From Ecsite members

Exhibitions galore

Ecsite members have been very active in publishing and dusting up touring exhibitions on the new EXTRA platform - take a look!

Leonardo - Projects, drawings, machines

Nils Hornstrup, a passionate and sharp science communicator

Nils Hornstrup, Senior Science Consultant and former Deputy Director of Experimentarium, passed away on 17 May 2016 following a very brief illness.

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Ecsite thanks the writers who have generously contributed to this issue of Spokes. Don't hesitate to contact communications@ecsite.eu if you'd like to submit an idea for an article.

Spokes is the monthly digital magazine of Ecsite, the European network of science centres and museums. It is put together by the Spokes Editorial Committee:

Maarten Okkersen, Head of Communication and Marketing, Museon, The Hague, Netherlands – Chairperson
Julie Becker, Communications and Events Manager, Ecsite, Brussels, Belgium – Editor
Andrea Bandelli, Executive Director, Science Gallery International, Dublin, Ireland
Raquel da Cunha, Events and Communications Officer, Ecsite, Brussels, Belgium
Wiktor Gajewski, Science and Art Events Director, Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw, Poland
Gema Revuelta, Associate Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Lia Tedeshvili, Events and Communications Intern, Ecsite, Brussels, Belgium
Maria Xanthoudaki, Head of Education and International Relations, Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milan, Italy

Responsible editor: Catherine Franche, Executive Director for Association européenne des expositions scientifiques, techniques et industrielles, aisbl

Frequency: monthly since April 2015 - issue 20, June 2016