Festival della Scienza

A network between Europe, Asia and Mediterranean Countries for the training of scientific explainers aimed at promoting Science Diffusion Capabilities among Students and Researchers.

Based on the positive experiences acquired in training senior scientific explainers during the launch course F2S4E2, the First Festival School for Students as Science & Society Explainers of Excellence in 2006 and during the six editions of EASE (2007 – 2012) in Genova, the Science Festival Association is now promoting the seventh edition of EASE.

The school promotes international exchanges of teacher and junior explainers operating in scientific dissemination realities like Science Festivals, Science Centers or Museums in different Countries.

The main aim of the school is to create a team of young people with specific knowledge in science dissemination.
The School’s mission is to train the scientific explainers of the future, providing young researchers with the fundamental instruments and techniques needed to effectively communicate their knowledge, whereby also realizing the future necessity to promote efficiently their scientific activities of study.
In parallel, the school offers research organizations the opportunity to maximise their relationship between science and society.

The school organises classroom activity and tutorials, which range from Science communication to organisation, expression and presentation skills, theatrical techniques and dialogue…

Under the Science Festival Association guidance in May 2012 in Shanghai took place the first edition of SASE – Shanghai Academy for Scientific Explainers, in collaboration with SAST – Shanghai Association for Science and Technology.

EASE 2012 in numbers:
55 participants. Among them, 10 Chinese explainers, 9 nigerian, 1 egyptian, 1 albanian, 1 brazilian.
9 days total
7 hours per day in multi-media classrooms
8 hours in practical experience with teams preparing exhibitions and laboratories
10 days in practical work-based experience during Science Festival: 5 hrs per day

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For further information and registration for EASE 2013 please contact ease@festivalscienza.it

EASE project promotes the creation of:

A European School to ensure a level of excellence for scientific explainers of Science Festival.
A European centre of excellence for research, development and delivery of programs for scientific spreading.

Aim of the school is to create:

A European team of trained science explainers.
A network among Festivals, Museums and Research organizations.
The opportunity of international exchanges of teachers and explainers.
A new sensitivity in the next generations towards science diffusion.

EASE in numbers

40 students
7 days total
7 hours per day in multi-media classrooms
8 hours in practical experience with teams preparing exhibitions and laboratories
3 days in practical work-based experience during Science Festival: 5 hrs per day

EASE programme in short

Basis of Science Festivals organization
Workshops on presentation skills
Theatrical techniques laboratory
Basis of science communication
Creativity and group work
Design and construction of exhibits and multimedia
Interaction with different kind of visitors: kids, adults, diseased people
Empowerment
Evidences and sharing of experiences

The school is divided in three parts:

1. multi-media classrooms (October 17th - 19th) about
• Basis of Science Festivals organization and science communication
• Theatrical techniques laboratory
• Creativity and group work
• Interaction with different kind of visitors: kids, adults, diseased people
• Evidences and sharing of experiences

2. practical experience with teams preparing exhibitions and laboratories (October 20th)

3. practical work-based experience during Science Festival (October 21st - 23rd)

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For further information and registration please contact ease@festivalscienza.it