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Genoa Science Festival
President: Manuela Arata
Scientific Director: Vittorio Bo
Genoa Science Festival was born seven years ago and is one of the most important events in Italy for scientific dissemination. It is a ten day local event, held every year in the month of October. The theme is different every year and is chosen by a scientific committee among the most topical and discussed subjects. Public and private societies, organizations, cultural groups etc., selected by the scientific committee on the base of their proposal, carry out the Festival activities.
The general aim of the Festival is making science accessible to anyone by proposing a wide variety of topics as well as a "hands on" approach allowing for the active participation of public, made of people of any age and including children, students, researchers and experts.
The main characteristic of this Festival is to be accessible to everyone: children, students of any age and schools of every level, curious adults, families, researchers and experts.
Artistic and scientific, often interactive, exhibitions, performances, exhibits for the active participation of differently aged people, conferences of national and international experts, workshops. Numerous and various activities concerning Festival theme are planned in order to satisfy the intellectual demand of the very heterogeneous public.
Every year the number of visitors rises. The last edition of Genoa Science festival (October 2009) registered 200.000 participants: national participants, coming from the whole of Italy, but also international participants.
The large number of visitors every year underlines that people are interested in scientific subjects. A winning way to stimulate and satisfy this interest is through an event accessible to everyone and based on activities and exhibits allowing the direct participation of public.
The event uses a winning formula for scientific dissemination but shows a weakness point: the activities are carried out by inexpert animators.
Dr.Maria Maddalena Carnasciali
Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale - University of Genoa
Researcher