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Recent Posts
- Conference Report from the EU Cities and Science Communication Conference – science policy recommendations and how they can be achieved
- Beatrice on public engagement and the importance of networking
- Notes from the World Cafe session — final thoughts
- Marcos Perez on the value of networks
- Strengthen science citizenship – CASC policy recommendations
Category Archives: Innovative ways of engaging people in science
Conference Report from the EU Cities and Science Communication Conference – science policy recommendations and how they can be achieved
Here is the conference report from the EU CASC conference which took place at ThinkTank in Birmingham, UK, on 26-28 January 2011. The partners and delegates agreed on three policy recommendations which will increase public interest and engagement with science … Continue reading
Strengthen science citizenship – CASC policy recommendations
The group discussing the topic ‘Strengthen science citizenship’ selected four policy recommendations to promote and be included in the Conference Report . These were: Promote science through partnerships between scientists and coporations Invest in science educators and communicators Develop a … Continue reading
Prof Sten Llongstrom of Universeum on Science communication, small pots of money and networks.
Professor Sten Llongstrom is the Scientific Director of the Universeum AB in Sweden, one of three major Science Centres represented in CASC. Sten has been involved throughout the 22 months os the Science and Cities programme. Here he talks about … Continue reading
Policy recommendations for promoting evidence based research
Following on from the discussion yesterday about ways of promoting evidence based research, the discussion group talked about the ideas further and picked out which ones they felt most strongly about putting forward for recommendation. After deciding which themes were … Continue reading
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Michaela Zaludova of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic on the value of the CASC Network
Michaela was keen to get across how useful the network built up around CASC had been. It helped them develop new work on communicating Geosciences – Volcanoes are interesting – and their work will continue in the coming year.
Strengthen science literacy – policy recommendations from CASC
The discussion this afternoon was focused on strengthening science literacy and developing practical ideas to formulate science policy. But before the discussions could continue, the group had to discuss the meaning of the topic. The group quickly honed in on … Continue reading