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OBSERVA ASSOCIAZIONE

Country: Italy

OBSERVA ASSOCIAZIONE

17 Projects, page 1 of 4
  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 633367
    Overall Budget: 332,065 EURFunder Contribution: 249,050 EUR

    The SHARPER project (Sharing Researchers’ Passion for Excellence and Results - The European Researchers’ Night in the Centre of Italy, 2014 – 2015) wants to make the researchers’ quest for excellence accessible to everybody in cities and communities where researchers act and live. Excellence is one of the main goal that researchers aim at through high level research projects that can generate innovative results. Enthusiasm, emotions and knowledge are the driving force leading researchers constantly to face new challenges. Making this process accessible means to share with people this quest for innovative results. SHARPER will take place on 26th of September 2014 and the 25th of September 2015 simultaneously in Perugia, Ancona and L’Aquila, the capital cities of three regions in the centre of Italy: Umbria, Marche and Abruzzo. The network of cities together with their Research Institutions and science communication teams provides a group of excellence at national and international level. Perugia combines its tradition as University city with the presence in the city of a fifteen years experienced team (Psiquadro) of science communicators with a European profile. In L’Aquila, The Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (LNGS), of the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics, the University and the GSSI (Gran Sasso Science Institute) provide examples of world leading researchers teams. The Università Politecnica of Ancona is a growing Institution in the field of technological applications of research. SHARPER will include: street labs, exhibitions, performances or other communication actions in venues plenty of symbolic and practical value for the future development of the cities and their future based on excellence and innovation. The SHARPER communication actions will engage students, family groups and citizens actively involved since the planning phase of the project. At least 20.000 visitors are expected in the three cities each year during the Night.

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  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 230043
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  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 872855
    Overall Budget: 1,199,600 EURFunder Contribution: 1,199,600 EUR

    The TRESCA Project focuses on developing trust in science and innovation through innovating communication practices between scientific researchers, journalists and policy makers. It does this by drawing on the expertise of a diverse set of partners, both scholars and practitioners, from multidisciplinary backgrounds. The project’s goals are to systematically understand what drives public trust in science communication through large scale, experimental survey research and qualitative, deliberative research. TRESCA is designed to build long-term impact and produce positive change through the engagement and training of stakeholders, including scientists, journalists, policy makers and the public, in order to increase the production, exchange and consumption of more trustworthy, reliable, and accurate scientific communications. TRESCA’s focus in doing this is unique. TRESCA foregrounds the communication of findings from Social Science and Humanities (SSH) research related to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) developments around digitalisation. As digital devices and services are ubiquitous and permeate people’s everyday life, TRESCA relies on visual communications to empower people with that knowledge which is relevant to thrive in the digital ecosystem. The project focuses on three areas of concern around digitalisation: misinformation and digital safety; environ-mental health; automation and the future of skills and work. TRESCA develops a set of tools for improving science communication including a tested and assessed animated science communication video; the prototype of a misinformation widget working on encrypted communication channels to help distinguish trustworthy contents and sources; and a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for scientists, journalists and policy makers to learn how to best facilitate reliable and trustworthy science communication.

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  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 722981
    Overall Budget: 512,744 EURFunder Contribution: 384,600 EUR

    Researchers love to engage with nature, society, with future and ultimately with all the complex challenges that will allow them to contribute to a better world. Researchers also love to engage with other people to make the quest they’re involved in a collective endeavour. All this make researchers persons passionate for engagement who are developing a growing sense of responsibility related to their work and their role in society. In such a professional life researchers experience strong driving forces such as enthusiasm, emotions, combined with new knowledge and innovative discoveries. All these elements are summarized in the acronym SHARPER - Sharing Researchers’ Passion for Engagement and Responsibility the name of the European Researchers’ Night in the Centre and South of Italy that will take place on the 30th of September 2016 and on the 29th of September 2017 simultaneously in five cities: Perugia, L’Aquila, Ancona and Palermo – the four capital cities of the regions Marche, Umbria, Abruzzo, Sicily and in Cascina the city hosting the European Gravitational Observatory one of the cutting edge European research facilities. This network of cities combined with their Research Institutions and with their social and cultural actors provides a team of excellence and reliability both in the fields of research and science communication at national and international level. The SHARPER project will create effective communication bridges between researchers and the cities and communities they live and act within, through: street labs, exhibitions, performances in city squares or activities that will take place in focal city venues, where citizens use to spend their everyday life. SHARPER 2016-2017 will geographically broaden the impact of the communication actions of European Researchers’ Night in Italy massively engaging kids, young students, schools, associations and citizens at large actively involved by researchers since the planning phase of the activities.

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  • Funder: European Commission Project Code: 2018-1-ES01-KA203-050827
    Funder Contribution: 231,440 EUR

    - Context of the project: Persist_EU is an Erasmus+ project, co-funded by the European Commission, that aims to evaluate the knowledge, beliefs and perceptions on scientific issues of European university students in five countries: Italy, Portugal, Spain, Germany and Slovakia, as well as providing with an ICT tool for teachers and science communicators to evaluate their activities.Attitudes, beliefs, perceptions and trust seem to have a greater impact on decision making than factual knowledge. Therefore, understanding how EU student opinions are formed and how we can improve their scientific literacy in order to allow them to participate more actively in the design of public health or environmental campaigns or programs is key for the promotion of a more democratic European Union.- Objectives: 1. To produce an ICT based assessment method for the teaching of science among University students that might be applicable in the future for any teaching activity and potentially to any educational level. The platform will be also useful for science communicators.2. To improve the knowledge for science social appropriation of University students across the EU on specific topics of substantial social influence: climate change, vaccines, the use of CAMs, phytosanitary strategies and food safety.3. To analyze the regional, gender-related and cultural differences of University students in regards to their science social appropriation. For that purpose, the activities will be carried out in five different EU countries, two central European (Germany, Slovakia) and three south European nations (Portugal, Spain, and Italy). Therefore, we ensure to cover differences related to socio-geo-political issues.- Number and profile of participants: The activities of the project involved different types of participants.Learning, Teaching and Training activities (LTTA): 16 participants including IT experts, teachers, sociologist, science communicators and training developers.ScienceCamps: 572 university students from 5 different European countries (Germany, Slovakia, Spain, Portugal and Italy). 473 of which tested the online platform.Multiplier events (ME): 500 participants, including University students, teachers, researchers, science communicators.Description of undertaken activities: LTTA, oriented towards training the personnel of the different organisations participating in the project. It allowed preparing the transnational activities to evaluate the ICT platform as an assessment method and designing in a co-creative way the ICT platform itself. The scientific partners shared their desired features and the technical partners fixed the bar for what is achievable in the set time frame of the project and presented the partners the available options.ScienceCamps: in order to know the origin of the ideas and values of the students around topics of great relevance and social impacts such as climate change, genetically-modified organisms, or alternative therapies, different activities were carried out in five European countries (Spain, Italy, Portugal, Germany, and Slovakia). These activities were called Persist_EU ScienceCamps and, in total 575 students participated, voluntarily, offering their point of view to generate knowledge about beliefs and perceptions of great value for the future construction of the EU. ScienceCamps are divided in two parts, A first part of receiving information about the different topics, through short videos and talks held by experts in each topic and a second participatory part consisting of a Q&A section, a discussion for finding arguments in favour or against a sentence presented for each topic and a final debate among the students. ME: the different ME were the closing events for the project as well as the presentation of the project results. They allowed the dissemination of the project results and the generation of connections to ensure the suistainability of the project.-Results and impact attained: ICT tool for the assessment of natural and social science teaching activities. The ICT tool developed allows to assess the initial knowledge of European students when configuring their beliefs and perceptions on different scientific topics and also the changes undergone during their participation in the project activities. A digital book and country reports with the methodology of the project, indications to use the ICT tool and an analysis of the science social appropriation of European University students on science-related hot-topics (climate change, vaccines use, complementary therapies, GMOs) that have a significant impact in EU day-to-day life and policy.The intellectual outputs created and the different activities resulted in an improvement of the transnational relations among partners, an improvement of the scientific literacy of the student's participating in the activities and an improvement of the appreciation of science by the student participant in the activities.

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