As part of oooScience! Project, a prize quiz will be held to introduce participants to the project "Climate Change and Sustainable Development of Slovenian Tourism" and emphasise the topic's importance. The quiz will be conducted using the Mentimeter application, allowing participants to join using mobile phones. It will be held multiple times throughout the day, with three top scorers from…
In practical experiments, participants will discover how criminological techniques, within the framework of participatory science, enable us to ascertain facts and uncover deceit and lies in both the physical and digital realms. The experiments will involve tracking in both physical and digital environments. Each participant will uncover hidden clues and, with the help of criminological techniques, critical thinking, and modern…
A poster presenting the EU legal framework for the green transition and a timeline for the implementation of European legislation; a quiz, "Individual's Role in the European Perspective for the Green Transition," testing the audience's familiarity with EU legal rules for the green transition and EU goals in the coming years, aimed at raising awareness about these goals and the…
Through a group quiz, participants will learn about the profile of a STEAM researcher, including educational conditions, competencies and the nature of the work.
Through 5 practical tasks, young people discover their strong competencies and talents. During the rotation between STEAM fields, there is a short discussion with a career counsellor about possible careers and their relevance. Participants take home a card with their talents and a list of three exciting careers in the STEAM field.
In this interview, we will be hosting researchers in the field of mathematics from the Andrej Marušič Institute and the Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies at the University of Primorska. Through exciting questions, we will shed light on his research area, contemporary mathematical concepts and the applicability of mathematical research in science, natural sciences and social sciences.
The critical media analysis workshop will offer participants knowledge for conceptual understanding media content, especially news. We will use the news analysis Kellner and Share model (2019). Its goal is to identify points of view, genres, and patterns of media representation and detect propaganda, censorship, and bias in the news. A group of senior citizens show low media literacy, regularly…
"Raising awareness of the interested public through presentations on fake news and conspiracy theories in the field of gender equality: Despite technological and social progress, even in the field of gender equality, fake news and conspiracy theories exist. Based on their characteristics, fake news can be classified into several subgroups, such as: false information, which refers to inaccurate information or…
The workshops aim to bring astronomical topics closer to the broadest range of participants. Inside Europark, there will be a workshop on making a simple solarograph, a device that allows for the long-term recording of the Sun's apparent path across the celestial sphere. On the upper parking lot of Europark, weather permitting, we will observe the Sun during the day…
The European Union introduces itself Information on the European Union and funding programmes, with a focus on research, education and researcher career development
Participants learn about critical thinking methods (from the field of media ecology) for understanding fake news production strategies. They learn to navigate among the abundance of information in the media environment and become aware of their own media self. Participants learn 1) the difference between information, misinformation and disinformation; 2) the effects of false information and why no one is…
As part of the activity "Wildlife detective: revealing the invisible wildlife around you", students and teachers will learn how to efficiently monitor biodiversity with innovative approaches, based on modern, genetic methods. These approaches enable the understanding and research of many important wildlife features (what they eat, what kind of environment they live in, are their populations stable in nature, whether…
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