Public engagement projects

Public engagement projects involve organising events and co-creation workshops which stimulate dialogue between researchers and the public in new ways and in novel arenas. 

• COALESCE – European Competence Centre for Science Communication
• European Researchers’ Night – the annual European science festival. Public & Science Sweden is the Swedish national co-ordinator.
  • Researchers’ Grand Prix – a science communication competition for researchers
  • Mass experiments – engaging school pupils in real research through Citizen Science
  • Borrow a researcher – Get an insight into researchers’ everyday life

• LOESS – developing educational materials on soil health
• Re:Fish – Fishing for plastic pollution and discarded fishing gear
• RE-MEND – generating new knowledge to prevent mental illness
• Resource centre for courses in science communication – network for science communication course facilitators
• Rock Your Research – Art-science and Public Engagement
• Science Cafés – a way to discuss science in a relaxed and informal setting
• Tea tales – a tool to assess soil health

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Past projects:

• 2WAYS – an EU project to test new forms of disseminating knowledge about life science research
• AllThings.bioPRO – bioeconomy serious game
• Anthology on Energy – a book co-created with KTH
• Bloom – An EU project about raising public awareness and interest in the bioeconomy
• CitizAir – visualise air pollution data
• ComScience – an EU project to test new forms of dialogue and communication about public health research
• European Student Parliaments on Science – a European project involving pupils working closely with scientists. VA ran the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm.
• Finding the Vasa cannons
• Media seminars for scientist
• Rock Your Research – Art-science and Public engagement
• SciShops – how to develop new Science Shops
• TechEthos – ethics within new emerging technologies
• What is science? – an animated film project