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E U R O P E A N R E S E A R C H E R S ' N I G H T ( E R N )

The European Researchers' Night is a project promoted by the European Commission through a biennial call for 8 million euro of MSCA to perform the last Friday of September a festival dedicated to the research and to the figure of the researcher. Involve more then 300 European cities, 50 Italian cities, 30 of which under the coordination of Frascati Scienza

Frascati Scienza is a non-profit association of researchers and the public, supported by public institutions, universities and by the major Italian research centres that organised since 11 years the European Researchers' Night, transforming the Tuscolana area and Rome in the epicentre of Italian research.

T H E C O N T E X T

This area, with its more then 3,000 researchers and many large research facilities, is a unique pole for history and activities and is the most important in Italy and one of the most significant in Europe.

The Frascati territory is one of the European regions with the highest density of research centres, univers i t ies and researchers working in all the fields.

W H O W E A R E

Our mission to share spaces and faces of Science, empowering participation to Research as common good and the literacy to scientific citizenship.

Objectives:

• Spreading the scientific culture, experiencing the thrill of discovery.

• Empowering the Roman Research Area and its infrastructures located in the Lazio Region.

• Training the researchers to Science communication and spreading of results.

T H E PA R T N E R S H I P

• ASI - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana• CNR - Centro Nazionale delle Ricerche • CREA - Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l'analisi dell’economia agraria • ENEA - Agenzia Nazionale per le Nuove Tecnologie, l’Energia e lo Sviluppo Economico Sostenibile • ESA-ESRIN - European Space Agency• GARR - Rete Italiana Università e Centri di Ricerca • INAF - Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica • INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare• INGV - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia • ISS - Istituto Superiore di Sanità• ISPRA - Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale • Sardegna Ricerche• Sapienza Università di Roma • Università degli studi di Roma “Tor Vergata” • Università Roma Tre • Università LUMSA di Roma e Palermo• Università di Cagliari• Università degli studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale • Università di Parma• Università Politecnica delle Marche• Università di Sassari.• Comune di Frascati• Regione Lazio … and many others: http://www.frascatiscienza.it/pagine/notte-europea-dei-ricercatori-2016/partner/

E R N N U M B E R S

In 2016: 39.948 visitors were counted, more then 800 researchers were involved, 20.3 millions people were aware about ERN messages, 371 press/tv/web outcome.

We have started in 2006 with 4 research centres located in the Frascati area, we are now more than 50 partners spread over 30 Italian cities

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T H E M E T H O D : B E P O P, B E S C I E N C E

1 0 ( 1 1 ) Y E A R S O F D ATA : S U R V E Y M Y T H O L O G Y

• Since 2006 we have collected between 300-900 ex-ante/post questionnaires per year. The main objectives of the survey were to:

• define the target audience reached during the European Researchers' Night

• measure knowledge and promotion of the researcher's figure

• draft the most possible concrete idea of the image of the researcher • understand how much difference, between Italy and Europe, is perceived

by the public interviewed in relation to employability and research and funding

• analyse how much the role of research in Italy and Europe • evaluate how much and which media influenced the dissemination • understanding what was the level of appreciation of the events.

• Since 2014 we have started to experiment new impact evaluation methodologies though world cafe and the #humasofERN project

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F R A S C AT I S C I E N Z A T H E E R N 2 0 1 6 - 2 0 1 7 T H E M E :

M A D E I N S C I E N C E

T H A N K Y O U … M A D E I N S C I E N C E

C R E D I T S : W W W. F R A S C AT I S C I E N Z A . I T / PA G I N E / N O T T E - E U R O P E A - D E I - R I C E R C AT O R I - 2 0 1 6 / C R E D I T S /