My Science Program
“Communicating Science – Strengthening the – Researcher, Journalist, Citizen – Triangle”
The My Science Programme`s closing conference took place on 28th May 2010 in Bolzano, Italy.
Among the guests of the conference were Prof. Peter Grünberg, German Nobel Laureate in Physics from 2007 (Germany), Raffaella Di Iorio from Scientific Culture and Gender Issues, DG Research – European Commission, Istvan Palugyai – editor of Hungarian newspaper and well known science communicator (Hungary) and Prof. Nuno Crato, who got EU science communicator award in 2007 (Portugal). More great scientist, journalists and science communicators gathered to discuss science and its communication.
Photos and more informations about speakers and agenda of the conference.
Fourth issue of My Science Newsletter is released. You can find there multimedia content about fourth meeting of My Science of 15 participants from from Italy, Netherlands, Turkey, Poland, Demnark, USA, Spain, Moldova, France and Albania. They took part in the last workshop of My Science Programme - Modern Chemistry at Institute of Chemical Technology (ICTP).
See the movie describing the meeting, video commentaries from participants and photos from the training. It was the fourth meeting and the sixth workshop in the framework of My Science Program.
90 young journalists will test their talents
They are talented young journalist who wants to take part in building our future! They are curious and enthusiastic about innovations and science! They want to know more about renewable energies, genetics, ICT and are interested in othere research fields! They will have direct access to the sources of information, will learn more about these topics and what is more, will be able to prepare own scientific media works – in a way that everybody understands and enjoys it. How?
90 young journalists will spend one week in a European research laboratory, where they will meet the researchers, see interesting scientific experiences and understand what science is about. They will Forget about boring classrooms! Here they will have to be actively involved. And most importantly, they will learn how to communicate science and research in an interesting and fun way.
Participation in the My Science Programme is free of charge, started in December 2009 and follow till June 2010. If you are not participating, visit our webpage and see, what they gonna do, get tipps on scientific journalism from experienced journalists, science communicators and scientists. We will make a relation here and hope you can find many interesting content here.
