Spring of Critical Thinking 2025 - Call for expression of interest

From March 20th to April 3rd 2025

The Spring of Critical Thinking, a key yearly Universcience event, offers a rich two-week programme at the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie and the Étincelles du Palais de la Découverte to encourage critical thinking. Starting 2024, Universcience has invited the members of the French National Network of Science Centres and Museums to join the festival. With more than 50 national partners (libraries, museums and science centres, higher education and research institutions, NGOs), it has been a nationwide success. In 2025, Universcience would like to expand the event beyond national borders, calling on all the members of Ecsite to join in.

The Spring of Critical Thinking aims to highlight the tools and activities that every science centre and museum has already developed to encourage critical thinking – the ability to sort and characterise information, in order to develop a well-founded judgement.

In 2025, the theme of the Spring of Critical Thinking is nutrition, but every programme related to critical thinking, media and information literacy is welcome.

You have planned a science engagement project (a conference, a workshop, a round table, an exhibition, etc.) related to critical thinking or nutrition? Join us and propose your programme, following the link bellow:

https://www.printempsdelespritcritique.fr/fr/ (in French – do not hesitate to use automatic translation, with a critical eye)