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Training for French-speaking doctoral students: register now!
The Science & You training takes the form of a mediation marathon, offering 15 hours of workshops supervised by pairs composed of a creative and a mediator, with the same objective: to raise awareness among researchers about the popularization of science. It is also a place for meetings and exchanges between young researchers from all walks of life. Doctoral students will be welcomed before the conference to be trained in different mediation practices: comics, contemporary theater, dance, objects theater, puppets, escape game or storytelling.
This call is addressed to all French-speaking doctoral students, no matter their field of research, their nationality or their experience in science mediation. At the end of the call for participation, 56 young researchers will be selected to participate in the training. The selection criteria are those of diversity and motivation to participate.
The training courses will take place in Metz from November 14 to 16, 2021. The selected doctoral students will continue their awareness of scientific mediation issues by attending the 4 days of the Science & You conference free of charge (from November 16 to 19, 2021). Accommodation for doctoral students is provided for the duration of the training and the conference.
The Science & You conference
For the University of Lorraine, the ambition behind Science & You is to bring closer science and citizens in order to raise awareness on science culture's societal stakes.
Following the "Journées Hubert Curien" Conference, Science & You is an international science culture event addressed to professionals (researchers, PhD students, heads of museums and science centers, science communicators and journalists...), and open to the general public.
The event is made of 4 concurrent parts:
- a congress dedicated to science culture, supervised by an international scientific committee,
- a formation on how to master science communication techniques, addressed to international PhD students,
- a "science & culture" forum, which showcases innovative actions of science communication,
- a series of cultural events addressed to the general public, disseminated across the region.
Science & You's first edition took place in Nancy (France) form 1st to 6th June 2015, and gathered 1000 congressists, 115 PhD students, and 10 000 visitors of the general public.
Consequently to this success, partnerships have been made with science dissemination structures on an international level. The first franchised edition of Science & You took place in Montréal in May 2017, in partnership with Acfas - Association francophone pour le savoir -, ahead of their annual congress.
NAIS - National Academy of Innovation Strategy - has organized Science & You's second franchised edition in Beijing in September 2018.
This year, a new edition of Science & You is organized, it will take place at the Robert Schuman Congress Center in Metz, from November 16 to 19, 2021.