Researcher´s Night, Noc vědců

European Commission,DG RTD,FP7, PEOPLE

This action aims at supporting the efforts undertaken since 2005 in order to bring researchers closer to the public at large, with a view to enhancing the important role of these researchers in society and in particular their relevance to the daily life of citizens.
Organizers and promoters of the event in the Czech Republic are:
• Observatory and Planetarium of Prague
• Faculty of Chemistry, Brno University of Technology
• Masaryk University
• Techmania Science Centre
• Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia
• Czech Astronomical Society and its branches in the CR (about 20 observatories)
Researcher´s Night is a multiannual and Europe wide event organized within the initiative of the European Commission „Researchers in Europe“, organized every year since 2005.
Series of entertaining activities across Europe in one day and night.

To bring researchers and general public together and open the labs and research work places to public.

General public

Experiments, entertainment, observations, discussions, lectures, seminars, exhibitions, theatre and music

International – in 2009 took place in 30 European countries and more than 200 cities

Interesting and very welcomed and appreciated by public; successful initiative since 2005

Positive way of presenting modern science and research to public; good example of activities across Europe; effective PR and LLL initiative that has the potential to invoke the interest in science among people

http://www.noc-vedcu.cz/ in the Czech Republic
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/people/specific-actions_en.html

Petra Kinzlova

ICT Prague, Department of Science and Research

Member of CIAAU Research Team in ICT Prague