Social responsibility

Aquascience

Submitted by mqbssada on

‘Aquascience’ is a University of Manchester outreach event run by staff from the Faculty of Life Sciences. It is designed to introduce people to issues related to the pollution of lakes and rivers. Pollution of freshwaters is an important global issue and Aquascience is designed to bring this to the attention of both school children and the general public. This allows them to engage with research currently carried out at the University and to provide a teaching and learning service to schools.

Active Science – Young people engaged in science

Submitted by debortoli on

Science and technology have an important role in modern life. More and more often people demand to be involved and not just informed about scientific topics and the general consensus is that (young) researchers are the best carriers towards this goal. For several years many European countries have been testing new deliberative democracy instruments, especially through public debates. Active Science applies the same methodology to project recipients and objectives.

Experience and project of University Lille 1 : culture, science, knowledge, arts and education. A university in the City.

Submitted by Florence Ienna on

Since 1992, the University Lille 1 develops a cultural policy, dealing with the links between art, science and culture, and mobilizes the academic community along with educative, institutional and associative partners.

This policy results in :

  • The setting up of a place of reflection, exchange and debate : “l’Espace Culture”
  • Promotion of scientific culture
  • Preservation and promotion of the scientific academic heritage
  • Using traditional media as well as new technologies to reach a large audience
  • Dealing with all aspects of a subject in a consistent programming during a year
  • Sensitization to the most contemporary forms of arts
  • Supporting the amateur practice of arts, independent or supervised by professionals
  • Promoting the realization of associations’ projects

The “Espace Culture” is a 1500 square meters specific cultural complex , composed of 15 people, engaged in the cultural policy of the university. It is based in the core of the campus and opened freely to everyone.

Science event "day of technology"

Submitted by tria-F on

1. Introduction
The department of production engineering at the University of Bremen is responsible for the degree courses production engineering, industrial engineering and management and systems engineering. With approximated 1.800 scholars this particular department covers 11% of all enrolled people studying at the university.
According to a current analysis by the association of german engineers (VDI) the expectations on finding a job after graduating are outstanding, up to the present day the economic system of Germany misses more than 80.200 engineers.

SHARE with Schools

Submitted by SHAREwithSchools on

Clarity of purpose: The SHARE with Schools project (SwS) brings together three overarching objectives in line with Welsh Government and Cardiff University’s strategic objectives: these are widening access to university, meaningful/participatory community engagement and the development of employability skills for undergraduate and postgraduate students. The project was established in January 2011 and has been developed and trialed by a highly capable team of paid SHARE postgraduate students.

AmazeYourself - community enterprise programme

Submitted by Community Partn... on

Community Enterprise activities at the University of Bradford are designed to empower and build the capacity of its local communities through the range of enterprise development programme. The activities act as a vehicle for meaningful university-community interactions and are excellent examples of how a University can contribute to the social well being and economic development of a locality, and in turn offer high quality skills and knowledge provision that engages and stimulates its local communities.

Ketso - Multiplying the benefits of creative engagement through a social spin-off

Submitted by peghead79 on

Dr. Joanne Tippett launched Ketso as a social enterprise emanating from her research into community planning and ecological design at the University of Manchester. Ketso is a colourful, hands-on toolkit for creative engagement. This re-useable toolkit enables people with differing levels of confidence and ability to engage with each other and share ideas.

Purpose
Dr. Tippett’s development of Ketso was driven by one clear aim: to enable all voices to be heard in a stimulating and creative dialogue.

Il Linguaggio della Ricerca ( The Language of Research)

Submitted by illinguaggio2012 on

The project “Il Linguaggio della Ricerca (LdR)” (The Language of Research) is promoted by research scientists of the Bologna Research Area of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and by the National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF), both of them active within the framework of several scientific disciplines. This project is active since 2003 and has grown over the years with new research scientists, new teachers, and hundreds of high schools students (14-19 years) (see LdR-history).

Bringing the stars to your desktop

Submitted by jmarti on

This project brings to the desktop of any user real time views of the celestial sphere by means of an All-sky camera connected to an internet server. The camera and server are located at the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Jaén (Spain). They work in a continuous and autonomous way since 2010 without human assistance for most of the time. The dedicated web-page includes custom software that allows the user to also view: a computer-generated star map for direct comparison with real sky; videos of the previous 2h and 24h; mitigation of the severe effects of light pollution, etc. Among other uses, the system presented here has been specially well suited for: outreach activities in Astronomy; as a teaching tool addressed to broad audiences; as a way to increase the public awareness about light pollution and its environmental effects; as a contribution to professional meteor and fireball research.

Anti Smoking Centre of Catania University: first media campaign to increase accesses and the number of people wanting to stop smoking

Submitted by polosa on

ABSTRACT
With approximately 5 million tobacco-related deaths annually, tobacco smoking is the leading cause of preventable premature mortality in the world. A lot of effort was made to reduce this problem, but a lot of initiatives are still require to increase the number of people decide to stop smoking. The health national system provides an smoking cessation centers to assist smokers, but few know this service.

The Smoking Cessation Center of Catania University, engaged with international clinical research on tobacco dependence, decide to carry out a new strategy to involve the smokers, giving them a specific information and assistance about smoking cessation activities trough media campaign also with new instruments as social networks and forums.

The results of this new strategy is an increment of 55% quit attempts compared to period without press activities.

Each smoking cessation centre can adopt this strategy to improve its results and promote health.

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