ScienceView | The Science & You 2015 call for participation is open!

One great cultural and scientific international event that is open to anyone interested in science communication is being organized by the the University of Lorraine, France and will take place mainly in Nancy from the 1st to the 6th June 2015.

If you are a researcher or a PhD student in science communication, a director of a Scientific, Technical and Industrial Centre or of a museum, a business leader, a journalist or a science communication professional, or your interest is in the theory or the practice of science communication, the Science & You 2015 call for participation is now open!

This call concerns both the Journées Hubert Curien International Conference and the Forum.
The JHC Conference will bring together 700 professionals in science communication, in order to reflect on the future of science communication. An additional area for the conference, the Forum, will allow research institutions, actors of science culture and businesses to present the most innovative forms of communication to the general public.

All the proposals submitted must revolve around a single main theme: “Scientific culture on the move: forms of mobilization, cultural and political contexts, social links.” Your proposals can take on several forms: a “classical” individual communication (conference) or in dialogue form (workshops) for the JHC Conference, or the presentation of a personal experience, a project or an experiment in the Forum (stand, live performance, exhibition, participative science project, or any innovative form of communication and science culture).

This call for participation is open until the 15th September 2014. You will find the complete version of the call for participation and the modalities of contribution here. To submit a proposal, please fill in this form. We are looking forward to learning about your ideas, personal accounts, and original projects!

Science & You 2015 will mark the 10th anniversary of the Journées Hubert Curien (JHC) international conferences which bring together experts in science communication. An international outlook and multidisciplinarity have been the key values of the JHC from the very start. The last edition, JHC 2012, brought together 600 people of 67 different nationalities, and more than 30 disciplines were represented. Associated with the 2012 edition, a training event in science communication for PhD students of all disciplines and from all over the world provided a two-day course for 120 students.

The 2015 edition aims to go even further, with the addition of a Forum open simultaneously to conference attendees, business professionals and the general public. A series of scientific, technological and industrial culture events linked to this main event will take place throughout the Lorraine region. Science & You is made up of 4 parts:

> A conference for professionals at the Centre Prouvé in Nancy

> A convivial forum open to the general public, with stands, fun demonstrations, also at the Centre Prouvé in Nancy

> A training event on science communication for PhD students from all over the world, on the Ile du Saulcy campus in Metz

> A series of events for the general public, spread across the Lorraine region: film screenings and debates, travelling exhibitions, the science bus…

Science & You is intended as a place where all those who are interested in science communication can come together:

Research workers and PhD students, whatever their discipline
Heads of teaching and research organisations
Mediators and organisers working in scientific and technological culture
Heads of museums or science centres
Communications officers
Science journalists
Exhibition designers
Teachers
…quite simply anybody who is interested

We wish to create the best conditions possible for debating and sharing amongst actors who feel passionately about or concerned with how science lives in society: developing critical awareness, creative experimentation, and equitable intercultural openness in a complex society.

This call for participation concerns the first two components of the event, the conference and the forum.

The conference: plenary sessions and workshops for the conference audience.

The forum: presentations of science communication practices for a very broad audience (conference attendees, business professionals and the general public).

Science & You 2015 is open to all research workers and actors concerned with scientific culture (science communication professionals, research workers specialised in science communication, research workers in all disciplines wishing to communicate about their research…), its historical rooting and its developments in different cultural and political contexts.

The event intends to develop all possible links between:

Research on science studies
The science-society debate
Cultural action and social experimentation
And, more generally, all manners of articulating critical thought and cultural creation.

Participations must correspond to one of these four themes. Certain proposals submitted may be subject to suggestions from the scientific committee, in order to develop the links between the scientific conference and the forum.

For further information, you can contact:

Kateřina Picková

Chargée de projet Science & You

Université de Lorraine

91 avenue de la Libération

54000 Nancy – France

tél.: +33.(0)3.54.50.40.14

science-and-you@univ-lorraine.fr

http://www.science-and-you.com/en