First transnational meeting for European Project Sci-Co+
The Fondazione CittàdellaScienza is the lead partner of European Project Sci-Co+ - High Professional Skills for Advanced Scientific Communication, which will hold a kick-off meeting on January 16-17. The project funded by the Erasmus+Programme will focus on new professions and scientific communications based on new technology and the new scientific challenges that are increasingly forging science and technology to society.
The consortium guided by the CittàdellaScienza involvesprestigious partners: “Federico II” University of Naples, Trinity College in Dublin, Budapest Polytechnic University, the Ciencia VivaNetwork of Science Museums in Portugal, the Swedish NavetScienceCentre,the Fondazione Mondo Digitale, and Databenc, High Technology for Cultural Heritage District in Naples.
The 30-month project will conduct research activities to develop training courses for new professional figures and the upskilling of those working in scientific communication, science centres, science museums, universities, research agencies, and schools.
The next meeting of the consortium will be hosted by Trinity College in Dublin, right afer the annual ECSITE Conference that is held in Malta with a specific session dedicated to Sci-Co+ for the international community of science centres and institutions that operate in public engagement for the promotion of scientific culture.
PROJECT PROFILE
ProjectSciCo+ - High Professional Skills for Advanced Science Communication is implemented as part of the European Erasmus+ Programme in partnership with:
- Fondazione IDIS-CittàdellaScienza, Italy (lead partner)
- High Technology for Cultural Heritage District- Databenc, Italy
- “Federico II” University of Naples, Italy
- Fondazione Mondo Digitale, Italy
- The Provost, Fellows, Foundation Scholars & The Other Members of Board, College of the Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth Dublin, Ireland
- Ciencia Viva - Agencia Nacional Para a CulturaCientifica e Tecnologica, Portugal
- UniversitateaPolitehnica Din Bucuresti, Romania
- SjuharadsKommunalforbund, Sweden
The Sci-Co+ partnership will work on issues related to the digital transition and scientific communication, especially in science museums and centres with a system approach to the development of an advanced model of scientific communication and its applicational methodologies, new specialized professional figures, and new skills for sector operators. The model will be integrated into a specialized technological-organisational system to support and allow the fruition of the developed solutions and products.
The professional innovation required by the scientific communication model and methodologies will provided through the development of three specialization courses dedicated to university students on scientific programmes, science communications and information sciences and three upskilling courses dedicated to workers inscience communication, university research and teaching (STEM), as well as the development of a wide community of practice for users and stakeholders.
Target: 300 participants (specialisation courses) and 300 participants (upskilling courses).
