Light 2012, the European Researchers' Night

Special event on September 28 with LIGHT - Turn on the light on science, a real science festival organized by the CNR (Italian National Research Council) and the Planetariumof Rome, which is part of the Civic Museums of Roma Capitale, Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali e Centro Storico - Sovraintendenza ai Beni Culturali, with the museum services provided by ZètemaProgetto Cultura. All over Europe we will pay tribute to the researchers and their extraordinary discoveries.

Now in its fifth year, LIGHT'12 starts at 17.00 and continues until 2.00 am proposing a series of innovative and entertaining events. This year Light12 is dedicated to: Science on breaking news in order to show that real scientists may be as interesting and attracting as those proposed by TV news. We will use news broadcasted by TV as a springboard for dialogue with the public in order to improve the image of scientists. In order to ignite people’s curiosity towards scientists work, Light12 will set-up a number of actions/events during the whole RN.
The actions will be run in continuation in all the locations allowing visitors to freely pass from one area to the other without waiting for something to happen. The activities will be organised around 6 main areas: o Hands-on workshops with live demonstrations and hands-on experiments; o Big ideas from young minds area, where potential tomorrow's scientists will present their special achievements; o 4kids activities for children; o Globe Science Theatre where groups of artists/sportsmen that have at least one member of the performing team actively engaged with scientific research will be on stage during the whole RN; o Outside activities on sports and music o European Corner with Marie Curie research and training networks teams witnessing and answering public demands.
 

The festival offers a wide range of scientific workshop activities, conferences, scientific games. For a complete list of events, please visit: www.eventolight.it