Science for the small and the tall,the young and the old |
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Authors: | Valentina Domenici Ingo Dierking |
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Institution: | 1. Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy;2. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK |
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Abstract: | Public engagement becomes increasingly important for scientists. One reason is the demand of the taxpayer to know what her or his money is being spent on, and why. The other one is that in a world that increasingly relies on technology, student engagement even at a very young age becomes a target to assure the needed supply of well-educated and especially motivated scientists for the decades to come. And it falls on the older generation of current researchers to leave the comfort of their lab once in a while, to awaken the interest for science among the population. Many people may know that there is a ‘liquid crystal’ in their mobile (cell) phone display, but when prompted, no one really knows what that liquid crystal actually is, let alone how the display they use many times every day, actually works in principle. It is part of our job to change this. In this contribution Valentina Domenici and Ingo Dierking would like to report on two recent Science Festival events in which they took part, one held in Genoa, Italy, and the other in Manchester, UK. |
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Keywords: | Public engagement science festival public communication |
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