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| Geneva,
Monday, 13 March 2002 |
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| Sci-Tech - couldn't
be without it! |
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Seven
of Europe's leading Research Organizations* launch joint outreach
programme for the European Science and Technology Week at the Technopolis
Museum in Brussels on 22 March. Their aim is to show Europeans how
today's society 'Sci-Tech - couldn't be without
it!' fundamental research.
Could you imagine life without electricity, mobile phones, cars,
CD players, TV, refrigerators, computers, the internet and the World
Wide Web, antibiotics, vitamins, anaesthetics, vaccination, heating,
nappies, nylon stockings, glue, bar codes, metal detectors, contact
lenses, modems, laser printers, digital cameras, play stations .
. . ? Technology is everywhere and used by everyone in today's society,
but how many Europeans suspect that without studies on the structure
of the atom, lasers would not exist, and neither would CD players?
Most do not realise that most things they couldn't be without have
required years of fundamental research.
To fill this knowledge gap, the leading Research Organizations*
in Europe, with the support of the research directorate of the European
Commission, have joined forces to inform Europeans how technology
'Sci-Tech-couldn't be without it!' science, and how science can no longer progress without technology. The project is called 'Sci-Tech-couldn't be without it!'
'Sci-Tech-couldn't
be without it!'
invites all Europeans to vote online in a survey to identify the
top ten technologies they can't live without. It will show them
through a dynamic and entertaining Web space where these top technologies
really come from, and it will reveal their intimate links with research.
Teaching kits will be developed to explain to students how their
favourite gadgets actually work, and how a career in science can
contribute to inventions that future generations 'Sci-Tech-couldn't
be without it!'. The results of the survey will be presented
as a series of quiz shows live on the Internet during the Science
Week, from 4 to 10 November.
'Sci-Tech-couldn't
be without it!' will be launched on Friday 22 March at 18:30 at the Technopolis
Science Museum in Brussels, coinciding with the official inauguration
of CERN's travelling exhibition "E=mc2 – When energy becomes matter". The exhibition will stay at Technopolis
until 21 July. CERN Director General, Luciano Maiani, and European
Commissioner for Research, Philippe Busquin, will open the event
with speeches underlining the importance of joining efforts for
science education and outreach in Europe. A tour of the exhibition
and a demonstration of the project's hot site for cool science will
follow, and the event will be brought to a close with a "Science
in the Pub" discussion on the subject of modern physics and philosophy,
complete with musical intermezzo and buffet.
*CERN,
the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, ESA, the European
Space Agency, ESO, the European Southern Observatory, EMBL, the
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, EFDA, the European Fusion
Development Agreement, ESRF, the European Synchrotron Radiation
Facility and ILL, Institut Laue-Langevin. These organizations have
recently teamed up to form EIROFORUM, whose Working Group on Outreach
and Education is working with the European Union to provide a bridge
between the organisations, the European Union and the citizens of
Europe. The activities of the Working Group also contribute to the
creation of the European Research Area.
Access the 'Sci-Tech-couldn't be without it!'
online voting and web resources at www.cern.ch/sci-tech.
Confirm your presence at the Technopolis event
before Wedesday 20 March by Fax. +32 [0]
15 34 2010.
To
reach Technopolis take exit 10 [Mechelen-Zuid] on motorway E19 [Bruxelles-Anvers].
For more information on the exhibition, contact
Veronique de Man: Tel. +32 [0] 15 34 2020
For more information on 'Sci-Tech-couldn't be
without it!' contact the executive coordinator
at monica.de.pasquale@cern.ch,
Tel. +41 [0] 22 767 3586 |
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