Lars Lindberg Christensen
(European Southern Observatory)
19/06/2015, 11:50
Best Practice
Talk
Being a large intergovernmental organisation in a culturally diverse Europe, with the main infrastructures and a Member State in South America, brings interesting challenges and opportunities. This talk will present an overview of ESO's outreach and education, and highlight some selected problems and successes.
Mr
Arnaud MARSOLLIER
(CERN)
19/06/2015, 12:05
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Almost everyone has heard of it and many are aware that it is one of the most important discoveries of the last 50 years, but few people understand anything about the Higgs boson. Indeed, CERN’s media profile and visibility considerably increased in the last years with the start of the LHC and the discovery of the Higgs boson announced on 4 July 2012 and the related Nobel Prize awarded to...
Claire Dougan
(Science and Technology Facilities Council)
19/06/2015, 11:20
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As the operator of several large scale facilities, including neutrons, lasers, synchrotrons, and high performance computing facilities, the Science and Technology Facilities Council has carried out several impact evaluations of these facilities in recent years. But how do we decide how and what to communicate? Claire will present the range of studies that have been carried out on STFC...
Mr
Fabio Federico Taucer
(European Commission)
19/06/2015, 11:35
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The Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission provides evidence-based scientific and technical support for policy making contributing with its research outcome to a healthy and safe environment, secure energy supplies, sustainable mobility and consumer health and safety. The JRC possesses a series of unique research infrastructures that have offered transnational access to...
