Hosted by the Kersnikova Institute, the 2020 European Science Engagement Conference (Ecsite) will focus on the theme "Echoes from the future".
The Ecsite Conference offers an intense mix of intellectual stimulation, purposeful and creative sessions and inspiring human encounters and is open to all professionals who engage audiences with science and technology. Science engagement organisations could be one of the spaces where challenging ethical questions are tackled and the future anticipated and co-invented. At a time where public discourse about the future seems torn between hopeless dystopia and hopeful reliance on technology, can we empower citizens to envision, shape and demand more sustainable, ethical, human-led and human-centred technological solutions? Can we go further and create participatory situations in which citizens co-own the future's production mechanisms? How will climate change, big data, personalised medicine, artificial intelligence, fake news or biodiversity loss shape the future science engagement? How will our missions, discourses, tools evolve? What new skills, partnerships, management styles or collections policies do we need for the future?
Due to COVID-19, this event has been cancelled.
Call for papers: Passed
Price: 805 EUR (Super Early Bird registration); 447 EUR (Student registration)
Twitter: #Ecsite2020