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TITLE OF THE INITIATIVE:

IDIS-Science Center of Napoli

REFERENT(S):

Luigi Amodio, director of the Institution

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INITIATIVE:

IDIS-Science Center is a young community that lives and works in an old chemical factory in Napoli, restored by an elegant operation of industrial archaeology. It was created by physicist Victor Silvestrini and occupies 65.000 square meters hosting the largest and most innovative hands on museum in Italy, one of the largest and most innovative European Interactive museums. IDIS-Science Center is important for the dissemination of scientific culture where spreading and teaching of sciences are carried out in order to be accessible to everybody .

OBJECTIVE OF THE INITIATIVE:

The objective is to communicate everything to everybody, to make scientific knowledge a good not only available to a few lucky people, but a good for all humanity.

TARGET GROUP OF THE EVENT:

People of every age

ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE EVENT:

The center is the permanent residence of one of the largest and most innovative interactive scientific museums. Every year new and topical conferences, seminars, exhibitions and laboratories are carried out in this space. Laboratories are addressed to everybody, but with a particular care to school students (both compulsory and high school); many laboratories concerning chemistry are available.

IMPACT OF THE EVENT:

The IDIS-Science Center is located in Napoli, but visitors from everywhere in Italy. Every year the Centers receives many visitors from all over the world.

RESULTS REACHED:

The center is visited daily by schools and people of every age to easily increase and update their scientific knowledge.

EVALUATION OF THE INITIATIVE:

The space is well organized and the activities that are carried out are changed or updated every year in order to be constantly attractive and topical.

NAME OF COMPILER:

Dr. Maria Maddalena Carnasciali

NAME OF INSTITUTION:

Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale – University of Genoa

ROLE:

Researcher