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Annual Conference sessions

The first Ecsite Conference took place in 1989. Here you can browse all Conference sessions since 2010. Use the search engine to look for people, topics...

Looking for an older session? Our digital records start in 2007, with programme pdfs attached to each conference page

Science ♥ society
Antonina KhodzhaevaDavid SittenfeldLucia MartinelliGisela OliveiraCarlin Hsueh

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Biotechnology can provide solutions to global challenges in several fields including...

Strategy & vision
Emily DawsonNina Simon

Your opportunity to engage in conversation with the best-selling author of The Participatory Museum (2010) and The Art of Relevance (2016) after hearing her keynote in the previous time slot.

Strategy & vision
Leonel AlegreFilipa DiasVincenzo LipardiAna VerissimoBlanka FijolekMichal Grzymala

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In a world slowly recovering from an economic crisis, sustainability of museums and...

Research, theory & evaluation
Laurent CarrierBernadette SchrandtBernd HoltwickVictoria Thomas

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We all want our visitors to connect with an exhibition and feel something, whether that’s...

Research, theory & evaluation
Nuno Ferrand de Almeida

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Enjoy a little "pure science" with Pr. Nuno Ferrand, Director of one of the conference's...

Strategy & vision
Silvia GrabnerAndrea Frantz-PittnerMarika KapanadzeFranz RauchHannu Salmi

In recent years, networks among formal and non-formal organisational structures have become increasingly popular in science education. Those highly complex collaborations offer great opportunities to work as learning communities and foster...

Science ♥ society

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Equity & Inclusion
Nathalie CapletIan BrunswickLauren SouterDon UndeenBaerbel AuffermannAnna Omedes

To thrive in the future, science centres & museums need to connect with increasingly wide and diverse communities. In our digital age, more people expect to participate actively, to create as well as to consume. We live in a ‘participatory...

Learning
Friso VisserMarcus HeiderSofia LourençoStephen RobertsPaula Bäckman

Most museums have more than one target group: young children, teenagers, school groups, families... Problems arise when audience segments with conflicting needs compete for the use of our spaces and experiences: young children vs. teenagers,...

Learning
Jochen HungerAgnes Bauer

Not everyone is a maker*, yet everyone “makes” him- or herself through a process of learning. We acquire knowledge from different fields through different channels, in distinct places, with selected people and at certain times. However, some of...

Learning
Sabina BarcucciSebastian MartinJon HaavieRoland StelzerErik Torstensson

Researchers and creative practitioners focusing on maker practices are increasingly becoming sensitive to the effectiveness of the workshop format in collaborative practices, since most of learning is not the result of instruction but rather of...

Strategy & vision
Claudia GoebelKatrin VohlandAmparo Leyman PinoFermín Serrano SanzPia Viviani

This session will explore how the Ecsite community can do more quality Citizen Science (CS) through co-operation. It is linked to the pre-conference workshop “Partnering up for Citizen Science” and aims at discussing the results of the workshop...

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