Researchers Night 2008 / "Walk for Science"
In September and October IGC held the "Researchers Night", at the Cultural Centre of Belém.
Researchers Night is a European Commission-funded initiative. On an appointed day in September, outreach events take place across Europe, aimed at bringing scientists and the public together, in informal settings. The IGC, together with UPIN and Inova+, was awarded with the organisation of Researchers Night in Portugal, simultaneously in Lisbon and Oporto.
Researchers Night is traditionally about letting the public experience science through hands-on experiments. We decided to add a few extras to our event at the CCB: a fundraising walk for science, speed-dating with scientists and scientists in real-time blog. Between 2pm and 1am, over 2,000 people visited the CCB, and €4,000 were raised for leukaemia research, to be awarded as grants and prizes by the charity Associação Portuguesa Contra a Leucemia.
Researchers Night brought together 100 researcher-volunteers, from different research fields and at different stages in their careers. Some were speed-datersothers bloggersothers volunteers for the hands-on experimentsand others still musicians in the scientists bands that played on the night.
Researchers Night could not have been possible without the commitment of the following organizations: Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Champalimaud Foundation, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Faculdade de Ciências of the University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Tecnico, INETI, Sintra Centro Ciência Viva, Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Cooking Lab, Associação Viver a Ciencia, Ayumikata, Natura Algarve, Marta de Menezes, Manuela Lopes, André Castro, Several companies sponsored the event, either by providing catering (Delta, Unicer, Biosphere, Frida) or contributing to fundraising (Portugal Telecom, Sapo). The walk for science was outsourced to Sportis.
Read more about Researchers Night at: Researchers Night
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RESEARCHERS NIGHT:
RTP - Telejornal de 26.09.2008 (2º parte, aos 15m09s)
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