Newsletter #3

after the meeting in Bolzano/Bozen, Italy 22nd-27th February 2010
The biggest group of 45 young media makers from 20 countries met in Bolzano/Bozen, Italy for three workshops at the same time: Humanities, Renewable Energy and Environment at European Academy EURAC. It was the third meeting and the third, the fourth and the fifth workshops in the framework of My Science Program.
Participants
Representants of Finland, Marocco, Serbia, France, Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Turkey, Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, Slovenia, Netherlands, UK, Poland, Spain, Greece, Sweden, Italy and Romania came to Bolzano.

More pictures from the meeting on the bottom of newsletter.
Watch, what participants of My Science meeting in Bolzano/Bozen are saying about themselves and about their experience during My Science Program in Italy:
Written Evaluation of participants to be found under the link [excel file].
Program
During paralel workshops participants got to know scientists representing fields and projects:
ENVIRONMENT
in Institute for Applied Remote Sensing
Air quality and atmospheric remote sensing: find signals inside the noise
SAFER project, activities in the scope of natural hazards

MEDIA WORKS AFTER WORKSHOP: ENVIRONMENT:
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RENEWABLE ENERGY
in Institute for Renewable Energy

ALONE - Sorption chillers for heating & cooling

Solar Combi+ - small scale solar heating and cooling systems
and
SMooHS Smart Monitorof Historic Structures

Alpine Space project ENERBUILD ENERgy Efficiency and Renewable Energies in the BUILDing Sector

MEDIA WORKS AFTER WORKSHOP: RENEWABLE ENERGY:
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HUMANITIES
in Institute for Minority Rights
EURASIA-NET
and
Minorities and Minority Media - Initiatives in the EU and Presentation of MIDAS
South Tyrolean History, Autonomy as basis for Research on Minority issues

Case Studies on Autonomy Regimes in Europe and South Asia

Dealing with diversity through equality and non-discrimination
and
Role play: Space migrants 2513

MEDIA WORKS AFTER WORKSHOP: HUMANITIES :
Architecture For Research from Luke Moody.
Short Film Festival “South Asia and the World”

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There were also join meetings of all groups.
Turning Science into a movie (youris.com). Presentation

Meeting with representative of TIS innovation park

Visit in editorial office of Dolomiten newspaper

Meeting with architect of renovated building of Ex-Post Building in Bolzano with reduced heating demand

Visit in Ladin Cultural Institute in St. Martin in Thurn/San Martino in Badia/San Martin de Tor

Visit to German and Ladin Division of the Italian Public Broadcast Company RAI in Bolzano

Visit in Biomass Heating Plant in Varna-Bressanone

Detailed programme and timeline of meetings in Bolzano can be found here.
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Next meetings:
Prague, Czech Republic
The last group of 15 young media makers from Italy, Nederlands, Turkey, Demnark, USA, Spain, Moldova and France will meet in Prague, Czech Republic for the last workshop of Modern Chemistry at Institute of Chemical Technology (ICTP). It will be the sixth meeting in the framework of My Science Program. Study visit will be held from 8th till 13th March 2010.
Bolzano, Italy
The My Science Programme`s closing conference “Communicating Science – Strengthening the – Researcher, Journalist, Citizen – Triangle” will take place on 28th May 2010 in Bolzano, Italy.
Among the guests of the conference are Prof. Peter Grünberg, German Nobel Laureate in Physics from 2007 (Germany), Luisa Prista, Head of Unit, 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 informations about speakers and agenda of the conference.
Previous meetings:
Vienna, Austria
First group of 15 young media makers met in the framework of My Science Programme in Vienna, Austria to get to know about Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Meeting of participants from Poland, Italy, Romania, Slovakia, Croatia, Portugal, France, Lietuania and Estonia took place at the University of Vienna.
See multimedia coverage in Newsletter #1.
Gödöllő, Hungary
Second team of 15 young media makers had a meeting in Gödöllő, Hungary for The Stem Cell and Nuclear Transfer Cloning technologies workshop at BioTalentum. Participants were from the Netherlands, Slovenia, Czech Republic, UK, Spain, Bulgaria, Poland, Italy and Latvia. This was the second meeting in the framework of My Science Program. Study visit started on 25th and last till 29th January 2010.
See multimedia coverage in Newsletter #2.
Newsletter #4 is comming soon.
More pictures from the meeting in Bolzano:





































































