Homepage

Today, society lacks awareness in the field of scientific research

Risking to spawn misconception about the content, context and mission of science.

Discover more

We will tackle this issue by

Supporting the public recognition of researchers within society

Teaching scientists how to improve their communication skills and competencies to interact with non-research-focused audiences

Interaction between research institutions and local/regional authorities

Making local and regional stakeholders active partners in the scientific endeavor

Raising interest of students in science and physics careers

Presenting frontier scientific ideas to stimulate and attract students to scientific careers

Tackling gender stereotypes in the scientific world

Showing role models of successful female scientists

Fostering equity, diversity, accessibility and inclusion

Implementing recommendations, good practices and guidelines for increasing accessiblity in science

Highlighting the European dimension of the Researchers’ Night

Showcasing the European dimension of research throughout events organsied at national and international leves

We will highlight the role of researchers to

Students

As a model role, to attract students to research

General Public

To show how as an individual, a researcher can contribute to the well- being and progress of society

Authorities

To highlight how science can contribute to society and economic growth

The work of PICO will lead to the following results

Researchers’ night events

Hosted in 4 different countries (Greece, Italy, France and Spain) for 2 years

Guidelines for introducing EDAI

With recommendations on how to introduce Equity, Diversity, Accessibility and Inclusions in science

Educational portfolio

With resources and activities for the researchers at schools

Community engagement portfolio

With visual stories, lessons learned and recordings from PICO activities

To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.

Functional Always active

The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.

Preferences

The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.

Statistics

The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.

Marketing

The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.

Bridging the gap between physics and society

find out more about Researchers’ nights across Europe: