EuroScience Open Forum, 2004 goes Public Outreach Activities

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EuroScience Open Forum, 2004 goes Public
-Outreach Activities

• Camilla Modéer
• Local Organising Committee

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ESOF2004Outreach activities

• Why?
• Who?
• When?
• How?
• What?
• Where?

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WHY?

• The purposes of Outreach activities are
• Stimulate dialogue Scientists and Public
• Increase the interest of scientists in dialogue
  with people
• Create public interest in science
• and to
• Give ESOF2004 publicity
• Stimulate the interest of media in science

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WHO?

• The outreach activities should reach
• The general public in the street
• People living in Sweden
• Tourists
• The young - and all other ages
• Schools, teachers, pupils (special committee)
• Journalists

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WHEN?

• August 24 29, 2004
• Each conference day the day before and the day
  after
• Lunch time late afternoon - evening

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HOW?

• Stimulating
• Intriguing
• Entertaining
• Fun
• In Swedish or English

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WHAT?

• A smörgåsbord of events and happenings
• Connecting to other events (Museums, Parcs,
  Olympic Games, Stockholm Water Prize)
• Happenings because of ESOF
• Dialogues researchers public

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IDEAS

• Dialogues Science on stage, Meet scientists.
• Theatre Soup-theatre, Oxygen .
• Film Scientific films, Nobel Laureates,
  Researcher Stereotypes
• Music Counting tones, Synthetic singing.
• Exhibitions Science and fiction.
• Physical exercises, Brain Spotting, books.
• And More?

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On Demand -Your Ideas!

• Small and not costly
• Big and Expensive
• Mail to gabriella.norlin_at_esof2004.0rg