Fascinating World of Researchers in the Age of Technology Mission of researchers to expand new horizons (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-CITIZENS-01-01; FAWORIT 2022-2023)
Fascinating World of Researchers in the Age of Technology Mission of researchers to expand new horizons.
Our proposal relies on the following main ideas:
(1) “being a researcher is cool and creative” - by presenting some ground breaking inventions and the researchers behind the ideas we aim to show the public how innovation affects our lives;
(2) “young innovators are amongst us” - by introducing young innovators, who will become both the audience and the participants of some of our activities, we encourage the youth even more to choose a scientific career path.
(3) “science is diverse and is for all”- We address the experiences of more than a decade; lessons learnt from previous Researchers’ Nights by using new, novel methods and solutions.
Our main target group is students between the age of 6-26, but we aim to address all age groups and abilities with attractive programmes. Some novelties of our project: offering challenge-oriented activities - each of our 30 venues will present their innovative solutions related to interdisciplinary societal challenges; focusing on the concept of Responsible Research and Innovation – the audience will be informed about key elements of RRI, thus creating better understanding and fostering future involvement; launching “Science in the City” – a flash mob like activity, involving the public in spectacular experiments. We will apply an integrated approach in our project in which interdisciplinary challenges, innovative solutions, (young) researchers, their work and hobbies will be presented in an interactive, educating and entertaining way. The target audience can thus discover that being a researcher is cool and creative; researchers, but and young innovators are amongst us. Our objective is to have around 30,000 visitors at the events, but a multiple of that number (around 500,000) will see, hear or read about the Night. We intend to raise awareness of the European engagement in R&I; in the European Corners and at each venue related programmes of the European Union (Horizon Europe, H2020, especially MSCA) will be visible. The structure of the consortium: an innovative SME; an association of women in science; a national organisation for applied research; an independent think tank, a scientific association with a broad network of local member institutions all over Hungary and a highly innovative large company together with numerous contributing partners will ensure the success of the project.
The Hungarian website of the event can be reached under kutatokejszakaja.hu.
This European Researchers' Night project is funded by the European Commission under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions under grant agreement No 101061596.
Members of the Consortium: