October 2017

#34

Re-enchantment

FEATURES

LOOKOUT

Re-enchanting the Sustainable Development Goals

LOOKOUT

Digitally transformed - or digitally transforming?

COLUMN

Originally in-between by Mikko Myllykoski

From the Ecsite Office

Ecsite Conference

EU News

From Ecsite European Collaborations

Good reads and resources

Opportunities

New exhibitions

From Ecsite members

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Re-enchanting the Sustainable Development Goals

Lookout

Why this planetary mobilization is beautiful - and why the science engagement community should care and act.

Re-enchanting the Sustainable Development Goals

Chantal Line Carpentier

Deborah Seward

Marie Christine van der Sman

Julie Becker

Digitally transformed - or digitally transforming?

Lookout

Four professionals share their thoughts and experience on organisation-wide Digital strategies

Digitally transformed - or digitally transforming?

Alex Morrison

Wendy Pryor

John Stack

Dave Patten

Anne Prugnon

Originally in-between

Column

2018 Ecsite Annual Conference Programme: promising session proposals

Originally in-between

Mikko Myllykoski

From the Ecsite office

We have a new treasurer

Tapio Koivu from Heureka is taking over from Jean Baptiste Desbois from La Cité de l'espace.

Jean Baptiste Desbois from La Cité de l'espace and Tapio Koivu from Heureka, The Finnish Science Centre

Highlights from the Directors Forum

70+ Senior Managers got together at Cité des sciences et de l'industrie on 4-6 October. Missed it? Check out our summary.

Terra Data exhibition tour, Ecsite Directors Forum, 4 October 2017. © V Viennet EPPDCSI

Two Internship opportunities at Ecsite

Apply now to join either the Project Management or the Communications & Events teams.

Ecsite Interns at annual conference 2017

Moves at the Ecsite office

Goodbye to Project Manager Tomas Rehacek, and welcome to Project Assistant Daphnie Daras and Communications & Events intern Ana de la Calle Navarro.

Ana de la Calle Navarro and Daphnie Daras

#ISCSMD is around the corner

Second International Science Center and Science Museum Day on 10 November - are you on the map?

2018 Directors Forum in Barcelona

Save the date: Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona will be hosting #EcsiteDF2018 on 14-16 November 2018.

Museu Blau, Barcelona's natural history museum

Thank you Gema

Gema Revuelta, Associate Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, served as a Spokes Editorial Committee member for three years.

Gema Revuelta

Ecsite Conference

#Ecsite2018: get your booth

Join the Business Bistro and meet 1,100 professionals from 50+ countries.

Communication packages at #Ecsite2018

What happens now?

The #Ecsite2018 call for session proposals is closed. What are the next steps?

The Annual Conference Programme Committee will now evaluate your session proposals

Geneva: not as expensive as you think

We booked some reasonibly priced accommodation for you in the "biggest international village". More

Geneva from the sky. Credits. Geneve Tourisme.jpg

Get your Erasmus+ grant

Did you know you could have your Ecsite conference fee paid by the European Commission?

EU news

2018-2020 SWAFs programme

The Commission published the draft of the 2018-2020 Swafs programme. The WP18-20 takes into account the results of the interim evaluation of Horizon 2020.

Public consultation on ivory trade

Ecsite is preparing an answer - get in touch if you're interested.

EU Commission unveils research funding details

Future and Emerging Technologies research stream: up to €1 million for proposals. Read more on Science|Business.

The EIC to finance 1,000 projects

The European Innovation Council will spend €2.7 billion during the period 2018 – 2020. Read more on Science|Business

From Ecsite European collaborations

Beyond the Lab in four new countries

After reaching 20 countries over the past 15 months, the Sparks exhibition makes it to The Netherlands, Lithuania, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria.

Sparks

Earth 2.0

A Space awareness webinar on habitability and exoplanets. 30 October.

The future of mankind in Space. Credit: Economist.com

How can #scicomm promote gender inclusiveness?

This and many other inspirational articles in the latest Hypatia newsletter.

New tools for Ocean Literacy

From the Sea Change project.

Healthy Ocean’s Photographic Competition First prize winner, Chile. Manuela Turkieltaub del Fierro - Pescador Surrealista

Citizen views on nanotech

The third NANO2ALL newsletter brings you the latest project resources, upcoming events, and other RRI and nanotech initiatives.

Citizens take part in a dialogue about responsible nanotechnology

Scientific research unlocks the power of human senses

ERC=Science2 campaign launches its latest theme: Senses!

From life expectancy to sensory experiences in Vienna

The Association ScienceCenter-Network shares scientific research on life expectancy and introduces the latest ERC=Science2 theme in Austria.

Good reads and resources

Selected science engagement reads

This month's selection of science engagement papers, features, reports, and news. Includes a paper on gender equality, a policy brief on biodiversity conservation, the latest issue of JCOM and more.

Book review

Little Country, Big Talk: Science Communication in Ireland shows how science communication has rapidly evolved in this country over the last 20 years. Read this book review by Andrea Bandelli, Executive Director at Science Gallery International.

Little Country, Big Talk: Science Communication in Ireland

The Creative Museum Toolkit

A new toolkit to help museum professionals carry out innovative practices in their institutions.

The Creative Museum Toolkit

Opportunities

Selection of international conferences and courses

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

European year of cultural heritage: call

European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018: Creative Europe presents a new call for proposals. Apply by 22 November.

European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018

Job: Festival Co-ordinator

At Cheltenham Festivals, Cheltenham (UK). Apply by 23 October.

Job: Touring Exhibitions Manager

At Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales. Apply by 31 October.

New exhibitions

A EUROPEAN SELECTION OF SCIENCE-RELATED EXHIBITIONS

Each quarter, Editorial Committee member R. Chanay curates a selection of new exhibitions, temporary and permanent. Ecsite members, want to be in the next one? Get in touch

Luminopolis

At Cap Sciences, Bordeaux, France. Learn about the science of light by collecting clues and solving enigmas, on your own or inside a team.

Things come apart: The art of reordering things

At The Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum, Paderborn, Germany. An exhibition by the Canadian artist Todd McLellan, who dismantles everyday objects and reorders them later, while capturing the whole process.

Blackberry by Todd McLellan

BLOOD | Life Uncut

At Science Gallery London, UK. An exhibition gathering artists from all over the world around the captivating and shocking topic of blood.

Jordan Eagles, Blood Illumination, 2016 blood preserved on plexiglass, UV resin, analog overhead projectors, dimensions variable Installation view, High Line, New York, NY Photo credit: David Meanix

New high-tech exhibits at Technopolis

At Technopolis, Mechelen, Belgium. Young visitors have the opportunity find out which profession(s) would suit them through a set of interactive exhibits.

Are you a natural talent?

From Ecsite members

Eureka!'s 25th anniversary

Merseyside plans and Halifax expansion mark national children's museum Eureka!'s 25th anniversary (UK).

Eureka! Merseyside Concept drawing. Credits: Eureka!

Technopolis at the Red Bull Soapbox Race

On 10 September 2017 Technopolis won the Creativity Prize during the Red Bull Soapbox Race in Kluisbergen (Belgium).

Technopolis soap box

Children's Science Museum in Tomsk Oblast

Hüttinger Interactive Exhibitions conceptualised, designed and built Точка гравитации (lit. Point of Gravitation), in Russia.

New 2,500 sqm exhibition on media

Archimedes desgined "Media tell their storie(s) at the Museum for Communication Frankfurt, Germany.

“MEDIA TELL THEIR (HI)STORIES”

Ecsite thanks the writers who have generously contributed to this issue of Spokes. Have an idea for Spokes? Check out the contributors' guide and get in touch.

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
Raphaël Chanay, Exhibitions and Interpretation Manager, Natural History Museum, London, UK
Marie Couëdic, Acting Events and Communications Officer, Ecsite, Brussels, Belgium
Ana de la Calle Navarro, Communications and Events Intern, Ecsite, Brussels, Belgium
Wiktor Gajewski, Science and Art Events Director, Copernicus Science Centre, Warsaw, Poland
Aliki Giannakopoulou, Project Manager, Ellinogermaniki Agogi, Pallini, Greece
Antonio Gomes da Costa, Independent Consultant - Science Communication and Education, Lisbon, Portugal
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 34, October 2017