Monthly Archives: January 2011

Work Package Two – Tools for building a scientific culture

Participants of the Work Package were ARMuseos Cientificos Coruneses MC2; Asociata ProSal (PSM); Think Tank (TT);Universeum AB(UAB) and Birmingham City Council (BCC). The activities were: Study Visits 2 Pilot Actions with young people – Science in the News; Science in … Continue reading

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Changing Behaviours – small business and climate change. Work Package 4

Part of work package four concentrated on how to change the behaviour of small businesses in the way they understand and respond to climate change. There were three main areas of work which are described in much greater detail in … Continue reading

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Cllr Paul Tilsley starts the conference

Councillor Paul Tilsley, Deputy Leader of Birmingham City Council, welcomes delegates to the EU Cities and Science Communication conference at ThinkTank in Birmingham.

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Hopes and expectations ahead of the CASC conference

When the delegates arrived at the conference they were asked to write their hopes and expectations for the event on pieces of paper, which were then displayed on boards outside the conference suite. Below are some of the things which … Continue reading

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Science Online: Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the medical data explosion

A fascinating video from TEDxGöteborg: “Today medical scans produce thousands of images and terabytes of data for a single patient in mere seconds, but how do doctors parse this information and determine what’s useful? At TEDxGöteborg, scientific visualization expert Anders Ynnerman shows … Continue reading

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Marcos Perez from Casa de las Ciencias on science communication and lessons learned from the CASC project

We’ve been finding out the thoughts and opinions of some of the Cities and Science Communication delegates ahead of this week’s final conference. Here, we find out from Marcos Perez of Casa de las Ciencias what his views are on … Continue reading

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Physics Factory in Birmingham

One of the visits which forms part of this week’s CASC conference is to the Physics Factory in Five Ways, Birmingham (UK). Physics Factory is “a grassroots movement that aims to take action on the decline of physics in British … Continue reading

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Science Online: Horizon, Science Under Attack

You have a month to catchup up with the BBC Horizon programme “Science Under Attack”. “Nobel Prize winner Sir Paul Nurse examines why science appears to be under attack, and why public trust in key scientific theories has been eroded … Continue reading

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Follow the CASC conference online

The CASC conference takes place Wednesday 26th to Friday 28th January 2011, at ThinkTank in Birmingham, UK. Conference delegates will have discussions about the work and activities they have seen during the course of the project and will come up … Continue reading

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Despina Tsikoudi from the European Office of Cyprus talks about science communication and science in education

Ahead of the final conference we asked a number of representatives from the CASC project partners to give us their thoughts on some of the key issues which will be discussed and developed further at the conference. Despina Tsikoudi from … Continue reading

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