Daily Archives: November 19, 2010

Art and Sciart Partnerships

The vision: To both introduce art into Thinktank as an alternative form of science communication, and to exploit and discover new uses for the fulldome (360-degree) video medium. Project Summary:  In an attempt to engage new audiences, and with funding … Continue reading

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Accessible Planetarium Shows

The vision: Helping visitors with sensory impairments to derive greater benefits from planetarium shows Project Summary:  We have purchased and created special learning aids to help partially-sighted or blind visitors enjoy our planetarium shows as much as possible eg. Braille … Continue reading

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Cultural Astronomy

The vision: To highlight the rich astronomical heritage of the principal minority cultures of Birmingham, and to demonstrate that the sky and its wonders has belonged to all people of all societies throughout history. Project Summary:  Working with local community … Continue reading

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Science Museums in Birmingham (UK)

The South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic is preparing a new Science Museum in Brno.  The South Moravian Centre for International Mobility is going to participate on this project by offering extracurricular activities for students with interest in technical … Continue reading

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Science Communication in Lyon and Paris

Representatives from the University of Bucharest visited colleagues from the University of Lyon to find out how Science is communicated in France… Dates of visit – 18-26 April 2010. Delegation: Razvan Mihail Papuc and Paul Marinescu – University of Bucharest. … Continue reading

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Science Museums in Sweden…3

Museuos Cientificos Coruneses (the Science Museums of La Corunna, Spain) visited Universeum, Sweden’s largest Science Museum.  Photos of the visit can be seen at http://connect.eucasc.eu/study-visit-mc2-universeum Universeum, the aims “Everything is related to everything and everything matters” This is the basic … Continue reading

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Science Museums in Sweden… 2

The Centre of Administration and Operations of the ASCR, v. v. i. and the South Moravian Centre for International Mobility visited Universeum, Scandanavia’s biggest science museum to learn about activities within the Science Museum – mostly in the field of science … Continue reading

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Science Museums in Sweden

The ‘Agora project’ is working to establish Hungary’s first Science Museum.  Here is what they learnt from visiting Universeum, Sweden’s largest Science Museum. Overall aim of the study visit: to exchange good practices between AGORA coordinators and the Swedish Science … Continue reading

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Science Museums in La Corunna (Spain)

What Birmingham’s Thinktank learnt from Science Museums in la Corunna: Report prepared by Zeeshaan Dinally, Planetarium Presenter at Thinktank The Science Museums of Corunna (=mc2) are an institution developed by Corunna City council. The goal of the three science museums … Continue reading

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Mathematical Theatre in Cyprus

The European Office of Cyprus co-ordinated a Mathematics Theatre Competition in April/ May 2010.  CASC’s Romanian partners, ProSal, and the University of Petrosani went along to watch to see if something similar would work in Romania: The competition asked students … Continue reading

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